READING FILM
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Welcome to Reading Film, a collection of outstanding essays on film written by students at UW-Whitewater. Our Professional Writing and Publishing program collaborates with Film Studies to produce the journal. Student editors for the 2025 issue of Reading Film are Maryn Davenport, Kaitlyn Doty, Gabby Morales, and the students in our Publication Development course (PWP 430). Faculty editors are Donald Jellerson, Erica Moulton, and Janine Tobeck.
Students, submit your essay here by January 15th, 2026 if you would like us to consider it for the July 2026 issue.
The Editors
Double Jeopardy: Memento's Trying Narrative
by Maryn Davenport
The Human Cage: Ex Machina's Ideological Tragedy
by Lucas Geiger
Parasite: Genre Hybridity and Class Consiousness
by Emily McDaniels
Toxic Masculinity and Capitalism in Paul Thomas Anderson's Films
by Matthew Quist
Turbulence of the Mind: Psychological Power Struggles in Red Eye
by Kaitlyn Van Wyhe
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The Editors