![The dangers of ‘profile picture’ as presentation of self](https://journeys.dartmouth.edu/edge/files/2016/08/social_media.jpg)
What does your profile picture say about us? In his work, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, “The Split between the Eye and the Gaze,”…
![2009 MTV Music Awards](https://journeys.dartmouth.edu/edge/files/2016/08/KanTay1.jpg)
While the tale begins in 2009, this chapter begins on February 11, 2016: Kanye West released his new song “Famous” off his album The Life…
![Ghosts of Our Past: gaze busting & the power of reboots](https://journeys.dartmouth.edu/edge/files/2016/07/ghostbusters-full-new-img-e1469749321390.jpg)
It seems like Hollywood can’t get enough of reboots. They lurk everywhere, in every genre, recycling the same story over and over again. Sure, it’s…
![by Marcel Duchamp](https://journeys.dartmouth.edu/edge/files/2016/07/rm_3_duchamp_nude-descending-staircase.jpg)
Nude Descending a Staircase [No. 2] (1912), by Marcel Duchamp, was one of the first contemporary paintings to show movement within a single frame….
![Animation Under False Pretences: The Moving-Image](https://journeys.dartmouth.edu/edge/files/2016/07/Superman-Green-Screen.gif)
In her essay “Cinematography: The Creative Use of Reality,” renowned filmmaker Maya Deren makes the argument that animation (or “animated paintings” as she refers…
![Baudry and Virtual Reality: A New Language for Cinema](https://journeys.dartmouth.edu/edge/files/2016/07/gearvr-crowd.jpg)
Building on the works of apparatus theorists Christian Metz and Jacques Lacan, Jean Louis Baudry argues in his 1974 article, the “Ideological Effects of the…
![A screenshot from the video that Diamond Reynolds live-streamed in the aftermath of a police shooting.](https://journeys.dartmouth.edu/edge/files/2016/07/castile-video-02-2-_wide-15d6cc2abfc769025daa44879056d79120150872-s700-c85-1.jpg)
Protests throughout the United States and the Black Lives Matter movement have increased focus on police shootings and reports of alleged police misconduct. In the…
![On Cellphone Videos and Justice: What we can learn from our fetish of vision](https://journeys.dartmouth.edu/edge/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Protests throughout the United States and the Black Lives Matter movement have increased focus on police shootings and reports of alleged police misconduct. In the…
![American Heroism: a discussion of bandits, cowboys, super heroes, and more](https://journeys.dartmouth.edu/edge/files/2016/07/Stephen.jpg)
By looking at the main American masculine heroes over time, important ideologies about the country’s culture are exposed. Preliminary investigation of some of these heroes,…
![The Film Lost in a Surrealist Wonderland](https://journeys.dartmouth.edu/edge/files/2016/07/Belladonna-with-Bodies-in-Her-Hair.jpg)
Belladonna of Sadness (1973), a psychedelic and erotic Japanese animated film, was just recently released for the first time in the United States in 2016…