Celebrating the 10th Anniversary
of the Film and Media Studies major!
As our national and international cultures become increasingly dominated by visual culture, we acknowledge the need to become critical viewers, knowledgeable in the history of the most popular art forms of our time and possessing the analytical skills to understand and interpret visual forms of expression. The undergraduate major in film and media studies requires the rigorous study of history and aesthetics in an attempt to understand the creative force of an individual art work, its relation to other artistic production, its place in culture, and its relation to industrial and business practices.
The Program in Film and Media Studies has many of its courses cross-listed with Performing Arts, Comparative Literature, English, American Culture Studies, Germanic Languages and Literature, Art History, History, Music, Romance Languages.
Fall 2008 Program Guide
Courses Cancelled
Because our senior lecturer in production, Pier Marton, has had to take medical leave this fall, we will not be able to offer Film 230, “Moving Images and Sound” or Film 315, “Visual Music” this coming semester.
New Senior Appointment
We are delighted to announce that Professor Gaylyn Studlar has accepted a full-time appointment to the Film and Media Studies program, of which she will become Director. Her many publications include This Mad Masquerade: Stardom and Masculinity in the Jazz Age, and, as editor, volumes on topics ranging from John Ford’s Westerns to Orientalism in Film. Professor Studlar will take up the post in January 2009.
Another New Appointment
The Faculty has been further strengthened by the recent appointment of Dr Hunter Vaughan as full-time Lecturer, for two years from Fall 2008. In addition to Freshman seminars, he will teach a class in the Fall on French Film Culture, thus resuming an important topic that we have been unable to offer in recent years. For more on Dr Vaughan, see the Faculty pages.
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