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When the Woman Screams: A podcast project exploring the cultural reasons behind why women scream in horror films. Popular thinking is that women scream in horror films because it is an inherently misogynistic media genre; that women are screaming because they are being terrorized. But this reading fails to account for any complexity of female emotions and experiences. While women do scream because they are afraid, they also scream in anger, grief, or simply to be heard. This public humanities podcast project examines the evolution of the female scream in horror films and explores the cultural underpinnings that potentially explain these shifts.
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How To See WithOut Using photography and memoir, this photo-journal documents life in Bethlehem during the height (to-date) of the pandemic-shutdown. The images and personal reflections featured here investigate a communal experience, a shared isolation.
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An Interrupted Complete Count
The local Lehigh Valley initiative to get a full complete count for the 2020 Census has faced many challenges, beginning with pre-existing distrust in government and lack of access to community, followed by a fear mongering debate over the Trump Administration's citizenship question, and now the COVID-19 global pandemic. As each day passes, the attempt to get a holistic count of the residents of the Lehigh Valley has gotten increasingly more difficult as well as increasingly vital as the unprecedented national health crisis starkly highlights the rampant inequality omnipresent in this nation, as well as the devastatingly dangerous weaknesses of the national leadership.
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Continuing Excellence: The Freedom Theatre Family
A short documentary film celebrating the tradition of excellence in the Freedom High School Theatre Company as it enters a new era of leadership. Class of 2020 Senior Grace Taylor retells the story of the transition while she and her new directors speak to the continuation of love and life in the program. Through this chorus of voices, this film serves as an ode to the arts.
