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      • FoodFood has often served as a focalpoint of culture and community in film. Families warmly meet around the dinner table while lovers indulge in opulent feasts. Home cooked meals can evoke comfort, tradition, and sociality but its very absence can point to its commodification and politicization. The richness of food and drink on film asks us to think more closely about its primacy. It asks us to question how lives are shaped by its ubiquity, otherwise taken for granted.
      • Coming of AgeComing of Age stories focus on characters’ seminal shifts and changes. These narratives take place within transitional periods where further realisation of self isn’t necessarily restricted to age. Definitions of maturity vary depending on the nature of change, but we can expect to explore the awkwardness, confusion, and discomfort that is inherent in seeking (or being thrust into) growth.
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    • 2021
      • Into the Digital AgeAs we go Into the Digital Age this edition, we will be focusing on the coexistence of humanity and digital technology. Is this relationship conflict oriented, harmonious, or somewhere between the two? This coexistence can be analyzed through historical evolution, science fiction, artificial intelligence (AI), the impacts of neoliberalism, utopias, dystopias, current realities, and imagined futures.
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Author: Sara Di Nardo

Sara Di Nardo is a guest contributor for the Short Ends Collective. As a Communications Studies student, she has a strong interest in the intersections between media literacy and gender. When it comes to films, anything that is coming-of-age, women-centered, a little bit romantic, a little bit sad and has a hint of existentialism is her cup of tea!
Coming of Age

It Takes a Village To Raise a Child

1 May 202230 Apr 2022
From San’s ecofeminist rage in Princess Mononoke (1997) to Chihiro’s unlikely but triumphant heroism in Spirited Away (2001), Hayao Miyazaki has a special gift for writing compelling female characters that…
Small Town Stories

A Story about a Place: The Humane Beauty of True Stories

1 Sep 202131 Aug 2021
“I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The color of white paper. The…
Underdogs

“I’m not a real person yet”: Frances Ha versus the Promise of Adulthood

1 May 202130 Aug 2021
Frances Ha (2012) is a film that throughout the years, I often go back to for different reasons. When I first watched the movie as a teenager, I was struck…

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