Volume 32

Hello,and thank you for picking up
Volume 32 of EyeCandy Film
Journal. As you read through, I
would like you to keep a fact in
the back of your mind: this is theÀUVWWLPHWKDW(\H&DQG\KDVSULQWHGWKH
journal since the pandemic started. Creating Volume 32
was already an enormous privilege and responsibility for all ofus, and this is doubly so when you consider that no one, including
myself, had actually printed the journal before.
I joined EyeCandy as a writer in the winter of 2019, a tumultuous year due topower outages, student protests, and the beginnings of a pandemic that would
keep all of us inside (and the Journal online) for 2 years. When I became
Editor-In-Chief, I was the only staff member who stayed on from the previous
years — and I didn’t know how to print! The thought of the work to come wasterrifying. But I and the new student staff would not allow ourselves to fail, anddespite our inexperience we treated this as a fresh new start.
This year’s transition to in-person classes has also been a process of re-learning
exactly how this organization runs. We’ve had to re-learn how to ask forfunding, how to organize an in-person class, how to set hard limits for writing,
how to use the correct settings, fonts, and images for printing the layout— andevery single person has stepped up to the plate. If it wasn’t for the teamwork of all
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So please, if you’re still reading, pause and take a moment to look at thephotos on the staff pages. This journal is the product of those incredibly talented,
thoughtful, creative, wonderful, beautiful individuals, and I could not be more
proud to have worked with them, and to have been part of this organization.

With gratitude,

Keely Gwynne

Meet the Staff

Keely Gwynne
Editor in Chief

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Tamar Nalbandian
Art Director

Isha Chury
Financial Coordinator

Dominic Wong
EditorJuliette Toner
Co-Art Director

Emily Applewhite
Webmistress & Blog Editor

Anjali Malyala
Social Media Manager

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Anna Okubo

Ahmed Negm

Melanie Mak

Christian Abraham

Tommy English

Writers

Matthew Kim

Jo YeeJenna-Rose Hards 3

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Roman Collazo

Lauren Pretto

Marco Navarro

Analy Hidalgo

Simon Sarte

Dylan Burns

Cecelia Rice - Layout
Curran Mccrory - Writer

Advisors

S. Topiary Landberg
Rick Prelinger
Susan Watrous

Isabel De Blois
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Julia Neal

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Table of Contents
Motherhood Depicted in Film: The Fear of the “Herculean” Task
By Analy Hidalgo

Reconciling Cultures: The American Story of Minari
By Matthew Kim

We All (Men) Need Somebody to Lean On
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Arcane and Otherness
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The Development of Teen Drama and Representation of Adult Themes
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Lesbian Exploitation Cinema
By Jo LeeWhy Raw is Still Eating Me: Female Desire and Horror%\,VDEHO'H%RLV

Dirty Dancing: What Lies Under the Guise of a Rom-Com
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The Cinematic Power of Black and White Film
By Marco Navarro

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