ARTS
The Vic Commuter Experience
Kids in residence get to immediately experience the Vic community by simply staying in res. Commuter students, on the other hand, have to take more initiative to become involved on campus in order to access the sense of community that res kids take for granted.
VIC100 Syllabus: Artistic Persuasions for Impressionable First-Years
Intellectually taxing yet stimulating, emotionally draining yet enriching, this course is designed to help Frosh navigate the cacophony of contradictions that make up the First-Year Experience.
Enabling Amy Schumer: Accountability in Comedy
Sketches from the Peabody Award-winning third season of Inside Amy Schumer were as shareable as GIFs on social media this summer. From one feed to another, people posted clips of her show while proclaiming to have just discovered the feminist icon of comedy...
What to see at TIFF if You’re Tired of Hollywood
I’m a total award season junkie and I will definitely see all of the Best Picture nominees by January 2016, but I think it’s worth it to wait to gush over Tom Hardy’s double performance in Legend, Bryan Cranston in Trumbo, or Julianne Moore and Ellen Page in Freeheld.
Reuse and Recycle: Why We Love Adaptations
As consumers of media, we have a seemingly insatiable appetite for mimesis. The characters, morals, and storylines from ancient mythology, religious texts, and canonical literature have been reshaped and repurposed in innumerable ways to create new pieces of literature, theatre, and cinema.
How Are You Feeling? A Response to Pixar’s Inside Out
When you live in a city as big as Toronto and are smashed between people going in different directions with different agendas, jobs, and lives, the human condition seems forgotten. It becomes a challenge to recall in the way we view the world.