Cailin Ball

Cailin is an MA student at the University of Toronto's Cinema Studies Institute. She obtained her BA in Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto. Her current research interests center on Hollywood and film history, with specific focus on the intersection of politics and industry during the HUAC trials and Hollywood blacklist. She is also passionate about representations of feminist issues and queerness, specifically through the lens of the abject. Cailin is a passionate amateur screenwriter and was president of the University of Toronto's Screenwriting at Victoria College club during the 2022-2023 school year.

Selected Work

• "I want to be perfect" - Reflections on Screen Theory, Gender, and the Self in Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan
• God(dess) in the Machine: Sexuality as Manipulation in Ex Machina (Screenwriters' Perspectives, Vol. 2)
• "A house that doesn't change is a dead house" - Giving Agency to the Muse in Phantom Thread (Screenwriters' Perspectives, Vol. 4)

Awards

• Cinema Studies 30th Anniversary Award (2023)