Hi, everyone! My name is Stevie Paraskevopoulos, and I am a 24-year-old Greek-Canadian from Montreal, Quebec. I have a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Film Studies from Concordia University. I intend to pursue further academic endeavours by obtaining a PhD, with the intent of becoming a film professor. For the last 8 years, I have been working in fashion and photography, currently running an e-commerce website.
My favourite films would have to be Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly, 2001), La La Land (Damien Chazelle, 2016), and Call Me by Your Name (Luca Guadagnino, 2017). My interests and research in film studies, however, have mostly revolved around horror and animation. My main focus is the evolution of the slasher genre and its tropes, as well as the importance of audience identification tactics in films like Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978) and Scream (Wes Craven, 1996). Building upon the film theories of Carol Clover and Laura Mulvey, my research has been grounded in their concepts. I am eager to delve deeper into the psychology behind audience identification and dissect how filmmakers must adapt to the changing youth. I also look forward to this semester’s Film Theory course because I am curious to see its potential contribution to my upcoming thesis research. In recent years, animation has also piqued my interest with Spider-Man: Into the Spider Verse (Ramsey, Persichetti, Rothman, 2018) and Spider-Man: Across the Spider Verse (Dos Santos, Thompson, Powers, 2023). Though I think these films will have a much more identifiable impact after the release of the final movie of the trilogy.
