VIEWS Journal

VIEWS: A Journal of Visual and Cultural Studies is a publication of exceptional student essays from the Visual & Cultural Studies, Art History, and Humanities programs at Cerritos College. The journal presents just a sampling of the many papers and independent research projects pursued by students enrolled in courses within these programs each year.

The journal is a publiation of the Visual & Cultural Studies program and is sponsored by ASCC.

VOLUME 7: SprinG 2024

  • VISUAL STUDIES
    • Andrea Aguilar, "An Alliance for Justice: Artists and Indigenous People in Guatemala"
    • Natalie Belger, "Biblical Heroines: Artemisia Gentileschi and the Power of Women"
    • Elizabeth Lieb, "Artist/Mother: Redefining Creativity through Maternal Perspectives"
    • Suraya Martinez, "Female Rage: The Breaking Point of Gender Inequality"
    • Jason Busuego, "Queering the Male Gaze: The Subversion of Heteronormative Tropes"
  • CULTURAL STUDIES
    • Hailey Aquino, "Roses and Lillies: The Fine Line Between Yaoi and Yuri Manga"
    • Victoria Moran, "A Glimpse of Class Divide in The Chambermaid"
    • Delvin Sauw, "Khirbet Khizeh: A Reflection"

Volume 6: Spring 2023

  • VISUAL STUDIES
    • Eunice Selvas, "What is Now is Never: How the Impressionists Captured Life in the Nineteenth Century"
    • Clarrisa Soto, "Black Silhouettes: Art, Race, and the Physionotrace"
    • Julie Gallo, "Abjection and Objectification: Woman as the Monstrous 'Other' in Modern and Contemporary Art"
    • Jeremy Nunez, "Blurring the Line Between Humand and Non-Human: Looking at Art Through the Lenses of Object-Oriented Onotology and Posthumanism"
  • CULTURAL STUDIES
    • Cerrik Chin, "Clockwork Mechanisms and Early Automatons: Impacts on the Question of Free Will"
    • Srivatsan Balaji, "Unthreading Gender: Tracing Androgyny in Fashion"
    • Kephon Wandix, "The Facade of 95"

Volume 5: Spring 2022

  • VISUAL STUDIES
    • Cait Cibulsky, "The Farmer Born, the Painter Made: Rosa Bonheur's Animal Paintings"
    • Violet Vos, "The Symbolism of the Femme Fatale: A Study of the Insecure Works of Gustave Moreau"
    • Brisa Caballero, "Visualizing the Space Sublime: How Technology was Spurred by Art and Vice Versa"
    • Audrey Chua, "Believing in the Supernatural: Shinto in History and Anime"
    • Fatima Mirza, "The Ideal and the Real: Alegria and COVID Art"
  • CULTURAL STUDIES
    • "Dear Camus: Letters on The Stranger, as if, by Franz Fanon"
      • Jane Abuhani
      • Daniel Lais
      • Bola Ming
      • Jorge Valencia Rodriguez
    • Mary Osborn, "Five Minutes to Midnight: Watchmen as Adaptive Doomsday Barometer"
    • Annie Kim, "Minting Condition: The Socio-Economic Consequences of NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens)"

VOLUME 4: SPRING 2021

  • Dialynna Riddle, “Dorothea Lange: Giving Voice to the Voiceless”
  • Adrianna Mondragon, “Intimacy and Struggle: Nan Goldin’s Photography”
  • Izabella Apodaca, “The Black and Blues of Cinema”
  • Ariadne Aguilos, “All Jokers Aside: Harley Quinn is to be Taken Seriously“
  • Anjika Morari, “Weather Report: Artists Tackling Climate Change”

VOLUME 3: SPRING 2020

  • Yumi Jung Gerard, "Madame de Pompadour: Mother of Rococo"
  • Brad Eichar, "Frank Lloyd Wright's Architectural Homages to Native America"
  • Jesse Deniz, "Making American History Great Again: DDXXVII Edition"
  • Isabella Goodwin, "The Evolution of Little Women and the Timeless Feminine Ideal"

VOLUME 2: SPRING 2019

  • Sara Cantu, "Behind the Throne: The Art of Roman Empresses"
  • Samantha Reyna, "Appropriating the Savior: Depictions of Christ in Renaissance Art"
  • Tiger Khou, "Black Gash of Shame: The Controversy of the Vietnam Memorial"
  • Sara Cantu, "Transformative Works: The Art and Politics of Ai Weiwei"
  • Alexandra Culp, "Fighting False Narratives: Resisting Normative Heterosexuality"

VOLUME 1: SPRING 2018

  • Samantha Reyna, "LGBT Representation in Animated Media"
  • Michelle Steele, "Dissident Transgressors: The Heavy Metal Queerscape"
  • Michelle Diaz, "Ending Latin America's Heteronormative Fantasy"
  • Luis Camacho-Martin, "The Giving Tree"
  • Phyllis Martinez, "It Ain't Over Till It's Over: Representations of the Older Woman"