During this first unit, we will begin a semester-long discussion about how to read closely and apply that knowledge to other texts. For the primary text of the lens essay we will view an episode from ...

No matter how you look at De Palma’s career, there’s no denying he can be a remarkable craftsman. Video essayist Julian Palmer recently created a series on Vimeo entitled “The Discarded Image” and in ...

The lens essay, the first of two major papers you will write, asks you to put two unrelated texts in conversation as a means to develop an argument that would not have been possible with just one of ...

Every other Tuesday, Matt Marlin posts a new “Framing the Picture” video to his Vimeo channel. And last week, the astute student of cinema broke down the memorable, awkward, and tense botched drug ...

This essay considers the limits of the ex post veto as an explanation for committee power in Congress. A simple bicameral model is developed to indicate the severity of the conditions that must be met ...