by mercycollegefilmandculture | Oct 5, 2022 | Blogathon Fall 2022
by Diannah Plaisir Every so often there is a film created that becomes the blueprint for other films to follow. It Happened One Night (1934) is a film pivotal to the development of the romantic comedy genre. Frank Capra’s form of tackling societal issues like...
by mercycollegefilmandculture | Nov 16, 2021 | Featured Essays
by Isaiah Speller Henry King’s The Gunfighter (1950) encapsulates one’s deviation from being good and facing fatal consequences. Cowboys in earlier Westerns were portrayed as heroes who followed an honorable code, while this Cold War Western challenges the...
by mercycollegefilmandculture | Sep 21, 2021 | Featured Essays
Research shows that mass media has a significant impact on the career aspirations of college students, and in particular, the aspirations of minority students. (Cooper, 2013) While television, newspapers and social media outlets are frequently used to seek or obtain...
by mercycollegefilmandculture | Jun 29, 2021 | Featured Essays
by Veronica Boscia During a 1938 radio broadcast, Orson Welles stated “Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of a failure with a death in it. There is more lost paradise in them than defeat.” Welles tells these stories brilliantly with both his narrative...
by mercycollegefilmandculture | Mar 30, 2021 | Featured Essays
by Gordon Ward The cronut is a wondrous invention. Chef Dominique Ansel was a mad genius to think of combining the buttery flaky makeup of a croissant with the frying process of a doughnut. It takes a true visionary to combine two very different things and make them...
