Caméra Stylo is the University of Toronto Cinema Studies undergraduate journal.
We offer a focused critique on film and visual media under the umbrella of Cinema Studies and the opportunity to publish text-based arguments.
Vol. 26
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Editors-in-Chief: Alex Docherty and Astrid Yap
Managing Editor: Paniz Saraie
Associate Editors: Shuhruh Akhand, Matthew Barquet, Martina Hipolito, Ethan Spires, Carter Vis, Joy Xu
Faculty Advisors: Nicholas Sammond and Lauren McLeod Cramer
Vol. 25
Agnes Hu: The Bulimic Spectacle in Reality TV: Intervention and (In)visible Bulimia
Alex Docherty: From Stars to Standards: How Film Culture Nurtured Parasocial Relationships to Reinforce Moral Ideals among Young Women
Winter Faddick: Ritual-Practice: Techno/e
Han Yan (Helen) Shen: Falling In Love with a Man Who Doesn’t Exist: Chinese Female-Oriented Dating Sims (yi nü) as a Case Study of Game Interactivity and Liminality
Matthew MacQuarrie-Cottle: Rocky v. Creed: Depictions of Black Athleticism and Masculinity
Editors-in-Chief: Vicky Huang and Astrid Yap
Managing Editor: Cheragh Shah
Associate Editors: Sam Aktefan, Evyn Armstrong, Shawn Campbell, Samantha “Sam” Guevara, Portia Ho, Paniz Saraie
Faculty Advisors: Patrick Keilty and Rakesh Sengupta
Typesetting: Alex Docherty
Cover Design: Vicky Huang
Vol. 24
Eva//Yves Chang: "Everybody can be a goddess... why not?": Queer Embodying of Mugler
Chelsea Young: JPEGMAFIA - Rainbow Six (Music Video): Hip Hop Communities Through kingcon2k11's Surreal
Laura Kim: Breaking the Mirrored Ceiling: The Sexual and Gender Mirror Stage in But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)
Vincent Raitt: "Helpless, Dumb, and Poor": The Depiction of Appalachian People in Labour Documentaries
Krishna Kant Moda: Howdy, White Boy! It’s Miss Chief: An Alter/Native History of Indigeneity and Camp Erotics in Kent Monkman’s Anti-Documentary Dance to Miss Chief (2010)
Editor-in-Chief: Arshia Negi
Managing Editor: Xarnah Stewart
Associate Editors: Evyn Armstrong, Emilie Hiscock, Amaya Martel Moura, Annika Mossanen-Delaney, Cheragh Shah
Faculty Advisors: Corinn Columpar and Charlie Keil
Typesetting: Alex Docherty
Cover Design: Arshia Negi
Vol. 23
Kassia Neckles: Into the Realm of Pink: The Role of the Colour Pink in the Gynocentric Afrofuturism of "Kiss Me More"
Zarina Tajimuratova: The Experience of African-American Actors in a Predominately White Industry: A Case Study of Dorothy Dandridge
Hannah Fleisch: Liquid Ruin: Aquatic Sonic Infidelity in Akosua Adoma Owusu’s Drexciya (2010)
Kit Domanski: They Leave, They Go Away, and Then They Come Home Again: The ghostly time traveller in A Ghost Story
Thomas Chan: The Gun-Fu Remediated Proprioceptive Aesthetics of Max Payne
Palvasha Khan: Mani Kaul and Dostoevsky: Against the Linear Narrative
Editor-in-Chief: Conorr Norquay and KJ Sabourin
Managing Editor: Maida Faisal
Associate Editors: Arshia Negi, Athos Christodoulou, Cailin Ball, Carter Dai, Celina Liu
Faculty Advisors: Bart Testa and Scott Richmond
Layout Design: Joshua Cabral Cardoso
Art and Cover Design: Vicky Huang
Vol. 22
Margaret Pereira: Golden Butts, Breasts, and Black Feminist New Materialism: WAP as an Articulation of the Commodity-Agent
Avneet Sharma: Clap for the Bing Bang Bong: Surface Reading the United Kingdolls’ “UK Hun?”
Ron Ma: Specters and Superfluity: Rhythms of Hong Kong
Kyla Whetham: Gillian Robespierre, Feminist Discourse and the Productivity of Narrative Cinema
Editors-in-Chief: Riley Myers and Kassia Neckles
Managing Editor: Moulik Seth
Associate Editors: Charlotte Lam, Saffron Maeve, Arshia Negi, Conorr Norquay, Krishiv Parmar, Alaina Shah
Faculty Advisor: Nicholas Sammond
Typesetting: Winnie Wang
Cover Design: Caleb Sandblom
Vol. 21
Avneet Sharma: Laura Dern and Gay Men: Performing Gay Cinephilia at the Independent Spirit Awards
Kerry-Ann James: The Black Void as Transformative Space: Film Blackness in Illusions and Tongues Untied
Eddy Wang: Don't Gaze Now: The Male Gaze and Self-Reflexivity in Don’t Look Now
Colin Ransom: The Image of Taste: Cinesthetic Instruction in Ratatouille
Monica Foster: A Volatile Ventriloquy With a Vicious Dummy: Sid and Nancy and the War Between Image and Soundtrack
Mena Fouda: Cries and Whispers and Prayers
Editors-in-Chief: Ryan Akler-Bishop and Morgan Beck
Managing Editor: Andy Alrayes
Associate Editors: Lavina Ford, Ron Ma, Kassia Neckles, Krishiv Parmar, Margaret Pereria
Faculty Advisor: Kass Banning
Typesetting: Winnie Wang
Cover Design: Kathryn Uy
Vol. 20
Sarah Fellows: In Between Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo: The Queerness of Gender-Bending Stardom
Alex Pompilii: The Harmony’s Sublime: The Role of Melancholia in Jacques Demy’s Films
Clare O’Brien: Nirvanna the Band the Show the Essay: Exclusivity and Cultural Capital in Online Cult Fandom
Harrison Wade: Virtual Bodies: Cyborgs, Machinima, and a Phenomenology of Dissonance
Youeel Ataalla: The Jurified Audience: Making a Murderer and the Mobilizing Power of New Media
Innes Seggie: How Do You Solve A Problem Like Cult Cinema?
Editors-in-Chief: Tara Suri and Kayleigh Birch
Associate Editors:Jennifer Dufton, Menatalla Fouda, Siobhan Spera, Eddy Wang
Faculty Advisors: Benjamin Wright and Anjo-mari Gouws
Vol. 19
Sofia Dorrell: Royale, No Cheese: Rescuing Bond from Self-Parody
Eddy Wang: Discerning Affects in Ida: Through a Looking Glass Silently
Tara Suri: Composing For the Screen: Max Steiner’s Influence on Non-Diegetic Musical Underscoring
Yuan Gao: Flourishing on the Borderline: The “In-Between-ness” in Tang Shu Shuen’s The Arch (1969)
Andalah Ali: Moving Forward as a Nation: Chanie Wenjack and Canadian Assimilation of Indigenous Stories
Editor-in-Chief: Sarah Fellows
Associate Editors: Hivda Ates, Jaclyn Pahl, Kyla Whetham
Faculty Advisor: Bart Testa
Design Editor: Winnie Wang
Vol. 18
Shaunesse Frontin: Beyoncé’s: Lemonade: The Black Feminist Auteur in the Black Feminist Film Text
Mahdi Chowdhury: Satyajit Ray in Western Film Criticism, 1957-1958
Shaquille Hosein: Beyond Tactile: Exploring the Potential of Augmented Reality
Anna Swanson: How Did This Become Cult? Podcasting and Cult Film Practices in How Did This Get Made?
Hellen Chan: Cléo from 5 to 7 and the Performance of the Flâneuse
Theresa Wang: Re-creating Labour through the Single Stereoscopic Film
Editor-in-Chief: Rachel Gao
Associate Editors: Dora Boras, Patrick Bull, Emma Doerksen, Sarah Fellows, Evelyn Maude
Faculty Advisor: Alberto Zambenedetti
Design Editor: Winnie Wang
Vol. 17
Andrew Lee: The End Is Coming! Or Is It Already Here?: Post-Apocalypticism in Pawel Pawlikowski’s Idaa
Tony Wu: Desire and Repercussion To Be Your Own Double: Self and Other in Being John Malkovich
Patrick Bull: Mouselight: Early Animation Through the Avant-garde
Erin Ray: Standard Operating Procedure: Using Reenactments to Find Truth
Jolie Zhou: New Martial Arts Subgenre of Martial Arts Professionalism: Judge Archer
Editor-in-Chief: Lola Borissenko
Associate Editors: Rachel Gao, Eli Jenkins, Angela Morrison, Theresa Wang
Copy Editor: Eden Church
Faculty Advisor: Alberto Zambenedetti
Vol. 16
Aaditya Aggarwal: When Their Eyes Are Shut: Female Homoerotic Desire and Domesticity in Deepa Mehta's Fire
Amanda Greco: Music For Murder in Yellow Minor: The Giallo Film Score
Eimi Harris: Memento: The Intermediality of the System
Daniel Konikoff: Anarchy on the Small Screen: Temporal Experimentation in Sitcoms of the Internet Age
Ruth Levine: Re-examining 'Revolutionary' Animation: Disney-Pixar's Frozen and the Limits of the 'Modernized' Princess Tale
Brietta Stewart: An Integration of Cinema and Literature: Towards Intermedially Reading the Screen Like a Page
Editor-in-Chief: Sharif G. Wehbe
Associate Editors: Amber Cicconi, Evan Maude, Loreica Peralta
Faculty Advisor: Benjamin Wright
Design Editor: Jules Stacey
Vol. 15
Amanda Greer: Political Implications of Cinematographic Techniques in Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty
Denise Nouvion: Touching and Becoming Objects: ASMR, Photogenie, and Immersion
Alexandra McCalla: Nollywood and the Figurine: A Transnational Example of Cinematic Digital Disruption
Julia Beney: When Music Asked Image to Dance
Mei Mei Xiao: "Bending" the Diaspora: Sexuality and Nationality in Bend It Like Beckham
Editor-in-Chief: Bronwyn Nisbet-Gray
Associate Editors: Aaditya Aggarwal, Katie Armstrong, Emma BurtchIvana Dizdar
Faculty Advisor: Benjamin Wright
Design Editor: Grace Quinsey
Illustrator: Sarah Crawley
Vol. 14
Madison Brown: Married With Fiction: Brault & Groulx's Political Evolution of Le Direct
Stephanie Le Saux Farmer: The 'Game' and the 'Pawns': Systemic Analysis in The Wire
Mila Luka: Pierre Hebert: Coming Into His Own
Alexandra McCalla: Screening Race
Betty Xie: Becoming Virginia Woolf: Corporeal Affects in The Hours
Editor-in-Chief: Myrna Scully-Ashton
Associate Editors: Henry Lawson, Ammar Keshodia, Zubin Ali, Raphael Deutsch, Maria Giulia Salvia, Nicole Wong
Faculty Advisor: Kass Banning
Design Editor: Tasha DiBiagio
Vol. 13
Danielle Barr: Listen to the Chick Habit: Feminism, Speech and Sound in Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof
Patrick Bull: Performing and Preserving: A Play of Night and Fog Representing the Emotions of the Holocaust
Jeffrey Sotto: Narrative as a Showcase for Emotional Spectacle: An Analysis of Howard Hawks’ His Girl Friday
Trevor (Guoxuan) Wang: The Cannibalism of Modernity: Ethnocentric Tourists and Neo-colonized Natives in Cannibal Tours
Nicole Wong: Racial Masks and Stereotypes in Imitation of Life and Bamboozled
Editor-in-Chief: Nuo Chen
Associate Editors: John Debono, Zubin Ali, Jessica Gomes Alvarenga, Myrna Scully-Ashton
Faculty Advisor: Kass Banning
Design Editor: Chenyi Liao
Illustrator: Beth MacDonald
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