Muhan Chen
2020- High School:
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The Experimental High School Attached to Beijing Normal University
- University:
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Yale University
- Pioneer Semester:
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Spring-through-Summer 2020
- Pioneer Research Topic:
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Not How Things Happened — Dreams and Flashbacks in the works of Alfred Hitchcock and David Lynch
Developing an original Pioneer research topic: A Scholar's Story
“In Pioneer, I studied film noir, and wrote a paper comparing the narratives Alfred Hitchcock and David Lynch. It was my first real gaze into film as an art. Since then I knew it was what I wanted to pursue, and since began my experiments with Film Studies and Filmmaking. In my college application I described my Pioneer experience as the start of an ongoing dialogue, and it was.”
