Columbus Plays Itself
Charlie Tynan
In this Student Voices essay, Vassar student Charlie Tynan analyzes architecture and emotionality in the 2017 film Columbus.
Midwest
Permanent Precarity: Transient Spaces and Horrific Indebtedness in the Midwest
Adam Ochonicky
Adam Ochonicky explores the relationship between mobility and precarity in the Midwestern spaces of It Follows.
Envisioning Precarity in the American Midwest: RoboCop (1987) and the Horror of Vacancy
Adam Ochonicky
Tracing the history of uninhabitable homes in the horror genre, Adam Ochonicky connects RoboCop's narrative of precarious housing to media images of the Midwest as a blank or vacant space.