2021 Finalists

Winning Essay

Searching For Meaning

Winning Review

Tampopo: Exploring the Makeover Trope in Juzo Itami’s “Ramen Western”

Winning Essay

Dispelling Misconceptions and Shifting Culture

Winning Review

Once Upon A Time in the West: How the West was Lost

Winning Essay

Be Gay, Watch Films

Winning Review

Portrait of a Lady on Fire Tells Us Why Cottagecore is So Sapphic

Winning Essay

Where Mass Social Movements and Film Criticism Collide

Winning Review

You Broke My Heart, Christopher

Winning Essay

I Lie to Children for Money

Winning Review

Kwaidan and the Ghosts We Live with