Welcome to the 23rd issue of Common Room! This issue focuses on representation across disciplines: Celtic Studies and Colonialism, The Female in Film Noir, Modernism and Misogyny, Style and Form, and Theater and Underrepresented History. Through the interdisciplinary studies contained within, understandings of representational strategies in relation to their medium and movement are challenged, celebrated, and created. As always, we thank everyone who submitted and shared their work with us!
Celtic Studies and Colonialism
Demons, Fairies, and Women: the Depiction of the Celtic Nations in Shakespeare’s Macbeth by Max Russell
Defining the Otherworld in Immram Brain and Echtrae Chonnla by Hazel Carroll
The Female in Film Noir
Evolution of Gender Roles in Film Noir: Body Heat and Failed Masculinity by Emily Jordan
Hollywood’s (Un)Happy Heterosexuals: Classic Noir, Narrative Control, and Gendered Violence in In a Lonely Place by Jubilee Close
Modernism and Misogyny
Modernism and the Vilification of the Female Nude by Zeytin Ercan
Admiration or Fetishization? – Gauguin’s Interaction with Tahiti by Gwynn Maitlen
Style and Form
Dewey, Dewey, and Dewey: Absurdity in Toni Morrison’s Sula by Guy McEntarffer
The Painter and the Poet: Exploring the Connection Between Visual Art and Modernist Poetry by Zoe Tedesco
Theatre and Underrepresented History
A Deeper Look into the History of Japanese Internment as Seen in Contemporary Plays by Kai Woitalla
