by mercycollegefilmandculture | Jun 29, 2021 | Featured Essays
by Veronica Boscia During a 1938 radio broadcast, Orson Welles stated “Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of a failure with a death in it. There is more lost paradise in them than defeat.” Welles tells these stories brilliantly with both his narrative...
by stevenderosa | May 17, 2021 | Featured Essays, Program Announcements
Winners of the first-ever Mercy CATA Student Screenwriting Competition have been selected! Winning Screenplay Reginald Agossa – The Incredibly Overwhelmingly Taxing Love Life of a 20 Something Superhero Runners-Up Tommie Cruz – Pillside Pharmacy Jenny Fabrizio – 12...
by mercycollegefilmandculture | Mar 30, 2021 | Featured Essays
by Gordon Ward The cronut is a wondrous invention. Chef Dominique Ansel was a mad genius to think of combining the buttery flaky makeup of a croissant with the frying process of a doughnut. It takes a true visionary to combine two very different things and make them...
by mercycollegefilmandculture | Feb 14, 2021 | Featured Essays
by Johane Nozier It was a grim period for America during 1931 (Matthews, 2009, pg. 5). The Great Depression, the biggest economic crisis in the country’s history, had negative effects throughout the land. Dracula (1931) was a perfect metaphor for the Depression...
by mercycollegefilmandculture | Feb 13, 2019 | Featured Essays
by Cecilie Stenak In Tobe Hooper’s horror film, the viewer follows a group of friends who are on their way to visit an old homestead in Texas. What they thought was going to be a fun road trip ends up being a bloody, macabre and ungracious journey to their death. They...
by mercycollegefilmandculture | Feb 1, 2019 | Featured Essays
by Alyssa RodriguezThe most successful comedies follow a formula known as THREES. These 6 essential ingredients for humor include a Target, Hostility, Realism, Exaggeration, Emotion, and Surprise. Paul Feig’s 2011 romantic comedy Bridesmaids successfully utilizes...
