Alexandra Frederickson

That's right: crazy hot chicks. And we're not using "crazy" as an adverb to emphasize the unbelievable degree of hotness that these chicks possess.

After the recent box office "disaster" formally known as Hostel: Part II, director Eli Roth discussed the film's "failure"-oh god, a film that only grossed $8,203,391 on 2,350 screens across the count...

Former Tennessee Senator and Law & Order cast member Fred Dalton Thompson "unofficially" announced last month that he will "most likely" run for President in the 2008 Presidential election.

Despite the literature published that presents Song of Solomon as an illustration of Mikhail Bakhtin's theories on heteroglossia and the multiplicity of language, Toni Morrison's novel also complicate...

It's 5:14 p.m. on Friday, April 20, and I'm in the Wheaton College library.

Imagine getting ready to watch your favorite movie. You take the DVD out of its case and put it into your DVD player. Suddenly, there's an explosion! Smoke fills the air. Your DVD player is on fire!

When director Brian Helgeland finally received permission last year from Paramount Pictures and actor Mel Gibson's production company, Icon, to create the film of his dreams, he was concerned.

This idea of linguistic meaning created through opposition comes from the work of Saussure, who believed that "Language is a system of interdependent terms in which the value of each results solely fr...

Chocolate, seemingly so deliciously simple, is actually a complex substance that contains over 300 different chemical compounds with names ranging from the pronounceable and familiar substance caffein...

A cinematic exploration of the form and function of Anémic Cinéma, Un Chien andalou, and Triumph des Willens.

The position of H. G. Bissinger with regard to Boobie Miles appears to be one of barely-veiled disdain, based on the way in which the author characterizes the young football player throughout Friday N...

Micheaux's use of crosscutting in Within Our Gates (1919) suggests not only parallelism, but also simultaneity and juxtaposition, such that the effect is to bring together two events that do not take ...

As early as the nineteen-teens cinematic representations of cities have been heavily invested in illustrating the relationships that exist between class-both social and economic-and urban space.

The creation of Internet video forums like YouTube.com over the past two years has arguably redefined what has come to be accepted as the "independent film" genre.

The cinematic trope of mobility, traditionally an important component of certain film genres like Westerns and gangster films, has long been a cause for anxiety within the history of visual representa...

The funny thing about being Irish in our culture today is how much it seems to matter, especially when March rolls around.

Get More Dates! Improve Your Sex Life!While these claims may sound like catchphrases from the subject lines of the spam e-mails we find in our inboxes each day, they're actually advertisements from th...

After seeing Zack Snyder's 300 again last night, I decided that it was time to respond to some of the dominant reactions of audiences, critics, and international politicians alike.

Zack Snyder's newest film, the cinematic adaptation of Frank Miller's popular graphic novel, 300, leaves other filmic adaptations of the battles of the ancient world in its blood-speckled dust.

By my third day working as a student intern at The Sun Chronicle, it seemed as though I might have made a mistake in taking the position. It seemed as though I had shackled myself with the ball and ch...

"Reality is objective and is directly and unequivocally knowable..."

A renowned artist who once ran a busy studio on Mechanic Street in Attleboro and worked as a designer and die cutter for the Robbins Company is being honored with an art museum to be dedicated in his ...

Students of Wheaton College join the global movement to end violence against women and girls as part of the V-Day 2007 College Campaign.

NORTON -- It's obvious from the way she clasps her hands together, kneading the palm of one with the thumb of the other, that Kestrel Dunn has to work to contain her excitement.

The controversy ignited by the Jan. 9 unveiling of Apple's newest product, the 'revolutionary' iPhone, has once again brought the issue of changing technology and its ramifications to the forefront of...

Growing up, Wheaton was simply a place a few miles from my home, a place where I went to summer camp and where each May I helped little old ladies climb into and out of golf carts as a volunteer durin...

In order to explore gender assumptions, I decided to abandon the characteristic go-along-to-get-along attitude-often seen as an innately female way of dealing with conflict-that I use with people in s...

Comparison of the writings of Hoyt W. Fuller and Trey Ellis on the idea of a "Black Aesthetic" provides a reader with valuable insight into the development of what ultimately was the quest for black r...

As Harper and Walton assert in The Vintage Book of African American Poetry, Countee Cullen's poems are often considered to be "a fluid coalescence of black life and English forms" (Harper 153).

Ask just about any other girl my age to name her favorite actors and you'll probably be bombarded by any number of Brad Pitts, George Clooneys, Johnny Depps and Orlando Blooms.

Wheaton College will reopen on Jan. 23, beginning the spring 2007 semester and marking the start of the college's busy visual and performing arts calendar. The spring semester will host a wide variety...

During the past six months, a new practice adopted by many companies when considering college students/recent college grads for jobs/internships has received increasing press coverage: screening of ap...

Located in what was once considered the basement of the Wheaton College Watson Fine Arts building is the Kresge Experimental Theater...

As far back as I can remember I've been terrified of public speaking. The irony is that I would love to speak publicly, if not for one small problem. As soon as I begin to speak, I lose my self contro...

I wasn't taking Fluoxetine when I applied to Wheaton. In fact, I wasn't even taking it when I was accepted to Wheaton...

The question of whether or not Henry V has a claim to the French throne lies not in blood, as most claims of succession usually do, but rather in international law.

Despite the fact that movies are usually never quite able to capture the sentiment that lies in the written word, Henry V starring and directed by Kenneth Branagh does indeed portray Act 1, Scene 2 of...

Each artist has, logically, his own subject material, as well as his own personal tone, method of presentation, and interaction with the audience...

Humans are biologically incapable of dealing with high levels of stress. When we are under too much stress, the cells in our hypothalamus, the part of the brain that controls our stress levels, actual...

A Cock and Bull Story plays with continuity editing, exposes the apparatus of the film's production, and utilizes characteristics of the relatively new "mockumentary" genre...

Gates' assertion is particularly poignant with regard to the texts we have examined this semester, especially the black literary journal Callaloo...

Looking at the "horrible pit" as representative of the "mental darkness" Douglass describes, the similarities between the state of being trapped at the bottom of a pit and being without any knowledge ...

The manipulation of black masculinity, whether through the use of hyper-sexualization or hypo-sexualization, in two of the most famous films in the history of the industry, was used to reassert a sens...

It can be argued that one of the reasons that characters were "allowed" by Hollywood to be portrayed as hyper-sexualized studs in Blaxploitation films was because such films contain no strong white ma...

Japanese architects Tange, Otani and Ebihara were driven to look back to premodern Japanese architecture like that of the eighth century during the postwar years by a desire to recreate and articulate...

Thomas Dunwitty, one of the many important characters in Bamboozled, is a self-absorbed, blue-eyed blonde television producer for a network called CNS...

Masculinity plays an important role in shaping men's punishment and punishment outcomes. In fact, the role of masculinity in the male correctional system affects both prisoners and guards, and largely...

...Based on Mullins and Wright's work, the "gendered character" of residential burglary becomes extremely clear to the reader.

Looking at Chinese culture as it is depicted in Bound Feet, Western Dress: A Memoir from the perspective of one raised in America in the late twentieth century, Yu-i's experience of gender as a social...

Many men used the Carpe Diem tradition to persuade women to submit to male desires. In section 61 of the poem, the speaker, a man, is addressing a woman with whom he is romantically involved in an eff...

Henry V expertly employs devices and ideas from both Lannon's The Writing Process as well as traditional Elizabethan Rhetoric, including the use of deliberative rhetoric, the presentation of a debatab...

When we hear the word suicide, we often think of the terminally ill, who wish to end their pain and suffering by taking their lives, or the mentally ill, who often take their lives while in the throes...

Brick Lane, a novel about a young Bengali girl named Nazneen, her sister Hasina, and the girls' ongoing struggle with the prominent cultural idea of Fate as a guiding principle in life, clearly illust...

As Professor Josh Stenger writes in his essay "'AMERICAN' IDLES: Spinning, Disappointment and Desire in Purdy's Paradise Lost," there is indeed something "slippery and insubstantial about [Jedediah Pu...

Bush Mama (1976) utilizes strong imagery and multiple narratives with a politically and historically informed soundtrack to reflect the ways the welfare system was used by the state as a tactic of "a...

The Big Sleep (1946) presents through diegetic construction and narrative treatment of its two main female characters, Vivien and Carmen Sternwood, two examples of the types of threats women posed to ...

The premise of Astronaut Farmer is (unfortunately) exactly as the film's title suggests: a failed astronaut-turned-rancher named Charlie Farmer (Billy Bob Thornton) is building a nuclear-warhead-style...

For avid David Lynch fans the five-year-long wait for another product of the filmmaker's seemingly tireless genius is finally over.