Matthew Norman, Emerson College
"Existentialism in Cinema: Sartre, Camus, and The Coen Brothers" is an analysis of Joel and Ethan Coen's filmography through the lens of existentialism by comparing The Big Lebowski, No Country for Old Men, and Fargo to the writings of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus' novel The Stranger.
Alex Leme, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
This presentation shows that Surrealist documentary photography can subvert the very "straightness" of the medium and its apparent realism in order to create the surreal. It further claims that this type of photography can be more disruptive of conventional norms than the contrivances of darkroom manipulation.