Commodification and Objectification of Women’s Bodies in Popular Culture
Introduction Throughout history, women have been expected to conform to numerous contradictory beauty ideals, and have often been forced to turn to …
Aesthetics in “Day in the Life” TikTok’s
© Jayani Patel, Ryerson University Introduction TikTok has grown as an app over the past few years due to its popularity throughout …
Rachel Bowman’s Platform of Solidarity: The Student Quarantine Comic
© Copyright 2021 Rachel Bowman, Ryerson University Introduction Globally, there have been unprecedented shifts in social transactions, the political climate, and the …
True Fear: An Analysis on the film Contagion
Link to Google Drive PowerPoint presentation Introduction My project will be analyzing Steven Soderbergh’s 2011 film, Contagion, from the literary lens by …
Comfort Comics: Using Humour to Counter the Pandemic’s Visual Culture of Fear
© Copyright 2021 Camilla Sestito, Ryerson University Introduction My project consists of three short comics that capture some of the humorous aspects …
Disintegration: Fractured Memories, the Digital Archive and COVID-19
For my final project as part of ENG 705, I have produced a brief photo essay focused on cultural and collective memory …
A Seat at The Table: The Visual Culture of the Housing Pandemic
Introduction During the unprecedented times triggered by COVID-19, a major issue amongst Canadians is housing security. Between the layoffs at big box …
Handicrafting “heatmaps”
Introduction Movement is something I always took for granted. This changed in March 2020 when the world went into lockdown measures to …
Mental Health and the Pandemic
©Copyright 2021 Silva Carka Student, Ryerson University. Heading into the second year of living with the coronavirus, we find ourselves in a …
The Visual Culture of Online Learning in Higher Education
© Copyright 2019 Deanna Ratzki, Ryerson University. Background In the world of visual culture, we are encouraged to not merely look at …