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Are you Blinded by the Lights of Downton, Parasitically watching others' Marriage Stories while awaiting the Harriet twenty with a houseful of Cats? Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, a bevy of Booksmart Hustlers were asked to review the year's films in the briefest possible way.
For this special Fifth Floor contest of wits, write a haiku that, in a mere 17 syllables, reviews a film released in 2016; it may or may not be an actual Academy Award nominee (psst—there are some films even the Dowager Countess and Dame Judi can't save).
All Pitt English alumni are eligible.
Send a Word attachment of your haiku review (with the name of the film as its title) to engalums@pitt.edu by April 1, 2020 (no joke[r]!).
Dana Och
About our judge:
Senior Lecturer Dana Och is the director of undergraduate studies for the Film and Media Studies program. She writes frequently on questions of genre, Irish cinema, cult, and horror—including publications on Neil Jordan's Irish horror films, the postcolonial zombie comedy, the neopostmodern horror film, Twin Peaks, Pretty Little Liars, Fifty Shades of Grey, Breaking Bad, and Rare Exports. With fellow Pitt film PhD alumna Kirsten Strayer, Och co-edited the anthology, Transnational Horror Across Visual Media: Fragmented Bodies (Routledge 2014).
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