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 stevenderosa | May 17, 2021 | Featured Essays, Program Announcements
Winners of the first-ever Mercy CATA Student Screenwriting Competition have been selected! Winning Screenplay Reginald Agossa – The Incredibly Overwhelmingly Taxing Love Life of a 20 Something Superhero Runners-Up Tommie Cruz – Pillside Pharmacy Jenny Fabrizio – 12...
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...
by mercycollegefilmandculture | Feb 14, 2021 | Featured Essays
by Johane Nozier It was a grim period for America during 1931 (Matthews, 2009, pg. 5). The Great Depression, the biggest economic crisis in the country’s history, had negative effects throughout the land. Dracula (1931) was a perfect metaphor for the Depression...
