Film Studies - Selected Works
Below is a collection of works - essays, poems, and videos - that I created during my time at the University at Buffalo. This portfolio served as my submission for the Gregory Capasso Memorial Award, which I was honored with in 2019.
ENG 379: Film Genres
Prof. Tanya Shilina-Conte
Midterm Paper: “Only Time Will Tell: Coffee Arabiga As A Work Of Third Cinema”
ENG 441: Contemporary Cinema
Prof. Tanya Shilina-Conte
Final Paper: “Mystery Train: Jim Jarmusch’s Manifesto Of The War Machine”
ENG 390: Creative Writing Poetry Workshop
Prof. Karen MacCormack
Final Project: “Thomas Moran Is Dead.” - a collection of poems.
DMS 411: Film and Media Theory
Prof. Daniel Colleran
Final Paper: “The Versatile Close-Up In Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash”
DMS 480: Social Media and Networks
Prof. Andrew Lison
Midterm Paper: “The Fault In Our Networks: Where Industrialization And The Digital Age Clash”
Final Paper: “The Screen As Blindfold: Ala’a Basatneh’s Syrian Revolution”
ENG 256: Film
Prof. Tanya Shilina-Conte
Midterm Paper: “Mythopoetic Cinema In America: The Minor Positions Of Steven Soderbergh’s Che”
Final Video Essay: “The Un-doing Of Satire: Coca-Cola, Capitalism, And Culture In Dušan Makavejev’s ‘The Coca-Cola Kid’”
- Written, Directed, and Edited by Anthony DeFeo.
- Clips and Citations credited at end of the film.
DMS 416: 16mm Production
Prof. Carl Lee
Cameraless Film Project: “Exposed Spice”
- Written, Constructed, and Edited by Glenn Kicman and Anthony DeFeo. Digital video by Anthony DeFeo.
Accolades and Such
UB Department of Media Studies’ Gregory Capasso Memorial Award , 2019
UB’s John Logan Prize for Poetry, 2018
Poetry published in NAME magazine, UB’s undergrad literary magazine (2018)
Review of Bruce Altschuler’s book, “Seeing Through The Screen” published in Film Matters, an undergraduate magazine (Volume 9.3)
Volunteer with the Riverrun Global Film Series at the Burchfield-Penney Art Museum; 2017-2018