Comps, honors papers, and prize-winning works of the Cinema and Media Studies Department are featured here. All works have been self-submitted by the student authors. Descriptive information about each work is available to search or browse. Access to the full text of the works is limited to current Carleton affiliates with faculty permission. Learn more about how to submit your work and how to request access to the full text of works.
Submissions from 2024
Victoria Aguado, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2024, Muggins
Mauricio Badillo, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2024, Bardo
Adrian Balvuena, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2024, BOYS IN THE SUN
Esmeralda Bessor-Foreman, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2024, Late Shift
Nathan A. Campbell, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2024, Rush Week
Martín Escutia, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2024, Deeper Conversation
Adam Kamp, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2024, Gender, Labor, and Futurity: Imagining New Paradigms In The Apocalypse
Chris Knapp, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2024, A Brief Journey Through 3D and Its Many Pairs of Glasses - Then, and Now
Peter Tu, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2024, Follow
Eli Venetis, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2024, Forgotten Beauty
An Vong, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2024, Home for the Holiday
Submissions from 2023
James Bice, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2023, 3 Phone Calls
Emma Burke, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2023, Virtue/Vice
Isaac Crown, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2023, Who is living in my father's house?
David Espinoza, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2023, Mi Vecina, La Llorona
Molly Furlong, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2023, Stupid Little Place
Yumo Lu, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2023, Where Does the Train Go?
Astrid Malter, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2023, The Sixth Borough
Nicole Marsh, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2023, Striking Out
Nadia McPherson, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2023, Deconstructing Nostalgic Configurations of Home: The German (Anti)Heimat Film
Scout Riley, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2023, Valley Fever
Jackson Stinebaugh, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2023, Memorial
Bahar Tas, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2023, A La Turca
Kelsea Turner, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2023, WILD Pilot
Caroline Tyree, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2023, Happy For Now: A New Cycle of the American Romantic Comedy Film
Submissions from 2022
Hank Aldridge, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2022, Terrytop Hill
Isabel Anderson, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2022, Grief Group
Ephraim Benson, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2022, Deadbeat
Lucy Cui, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2022, Paper Ring
Keyra English, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2022, Keep Walking
Jude Furlong, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2022, Changing Faces
Grace Hague and Ceile Kronick, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2022, SCREWED
Noah Hanson, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2022, The Vanifar
Manjari Majumdar, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2022, Bike Dream
Brooke McKelvey, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2022, Roots
Christopher McTaggart, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2022, Sardines
Arya Misra, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2022, I HOPE YOU REMEMBER THIS MOMENT
Folasade Orepo, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2022, Rhythm Of Life
Salvador Vega, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2022, Currents
Sarah Westrich, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2022, Stories Untold
Submissions from 2021
Louisa Ballinger, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2021, "Tetherball" Pilot
Victor Garcia, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2021, Agua de Limón
Brooke McKelvey, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2022, Wanted
Reese McMillan, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2021, Pending
Charlotte Rew, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2021, Desire Paths
Submissions from 2020
Seth Calvin, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2020, Ebb and Flow
Sergio R. Demara, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2020, Altar for a Future Love
Zane Grinde, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2020, Anoka
Emily (Pilot) Irwin, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2020, Play Among the Stars
Cecilia Kryzda, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2020, Expanded Form, Enhanced Body: Cyborg as Multimedia Metaphor in the Oeuvres of Janelle Monáe and Björk
Chris Lasch, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2020, The Piraiba
Mo McConnell, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2020, Nakano
Sam Miles, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2020, The Presence of Absence
Maddy Prins, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2020, All The Firsts
Ezra Ward-Packard, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2020, Reclaiming Cinéma Vérité: Searching for Truth in the Contemporary Documentary Landscape
Ryan Wetzel, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2020, Words Left Behind
Su Lance Xiong, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2020, Classy or Trashy? “Famous for Being Famous.” Kim Kardashian West and Embodied Celebrity
Fengrui Zhang, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2020, Search
Submissions from 2019
Lynn Barbera, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2019, tHiNk again
Michael Bruno, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2019, The Lonely Hero of Someplace Else
August Ducharme, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2019, The Maiden: The Savior
Lea Gould, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2019, Home is where the bird flies.
Ritvik Kar, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2019, You Are What You Eat
Haley Lunde, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2019, Wildfire
Akiko E. Nace, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2019, Umisen, Yamasen
Sarah Nazarino, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2019, J(oel) NAZARINO
Jonas Sun, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2019, Be Thy Sight
Lucas Winter, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2019, Visitor
Submissions from 2018
Griffin Alexander Bolte, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2018, Must Cop
Jonathan Brian Chow, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2018, Collected Sounds
Rachel L. Everett, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2018, Stripped Down
Alexa Layne Feeney, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2018, In The Flesh
Brendan Austen Layard Friesen, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2018, Affinity
Audrey J. Kan, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2018, An Interrogation
Harrison Keithahn, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2018, About Face: Explorations in Faceless Photography
Alyk Russell Kenlan, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2018, I'm Still Laughing
Paul Thomas Kirk-Davidoff, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2018, Strip Mall Nickelodeon: The Video Store in Local Context, 1978-2014
Theo James Morris and Peixuan Ouyang, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2018, Analog of the Between
Kayla Rose Rudess, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2018, Bloom Where You're Planted
Lucy Kepford Stevens, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2018, In My Pocket
Claire H. Tan, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2018, The State of Captivity
Terence W. Taylor, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2018, Shattered Memories
Michael Vue, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2018, Txiv Neeb - Shaman
Alexander Theodore Walker, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2018, On Christmas Morning I Woke Up to a Blizzard
Eddy Zaragoza, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2018, Fra,le
Submissions from 2017
Joshua Benjamin Creel, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2017, The Enemy's Enemy
Madilyn Emenheiser, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2017, The Social Horror Cycle in American Cinema
Zizi Li, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2017, Theorizing Instagram: Ontology, Epistemology, Aesthetics
Alison Marie Reilly, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2017, The Devil's West
Robert Joseph Volpendesta, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2017, Licorice Beach
Submissions from 2016
Jonah Castaneda Barry, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2016, John: The Day In The Life
Grace Kelsey Davis, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2016, Rhoda the Beautiful: Negotiating Gender and Proper Femininity in Television Sitcoms, Mary Tyler Moore (1970-1977) and Rhoda (1974-1978)
Lily Marie Eisenthal, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2016, Excess and a Radical Feminine Aesthetic in Daisies and Fruit of Paradise
Veronica Garcia, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2016, Casa, Home, Leaving
Nora Johnson Gregor and Jackson Hudgins, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2016, The Church That Jesse Built
Russell Anthony Hanson, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2016, No Boundaries
Theresa M. Heitz, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2016, We Call Each Other Sister: Melodrama, Ideology, and Women's Bodies in Orphan Black
Emma Frances Hughes, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2016, The New Global West: Redefining the Borders of Genre in the Post-Revisionist Western
Henry Dillon Maler, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2016, A Small Revolution: Reconstructing A National Identity in Post-Financial Crisis Greek Cinema
Shaylin Fay Nguyen, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2016, The Travelogue Meets The Diary Film in Change of Course
