The Program in Film & Media Studies announces a new Graduate Certificate in Film & Media Studies for which it is now accepting applications. This program is designed to provide Ph.D. students with interest in the theories and history of “visual culture” an opportunity to extend their formal intellectual training into film and media studies.

Students accepted into the Graduate Certificate Program in Film & Media Studies acquire appropriate graduate level knowledge in film and media studies approaches to criticism, history, and theory. Providing substantial knowledge in the discipline, the certificate provides a student another research specialty and enhances her/his ability to do interdisciplinary research. Completion of the program also enhances the potential range of teaching. We believe a Certificate in Film and Media Studies is a most useful added competence to enhance graduate students’ prospects for job placement after completing the Ph.D.

Graduate Certificate in Film & Media Studies

The 2009 Student Academy Award Winning Projects will be screening THIS Thursday at 7 p.m. in Steinberg Auditorium

To learn more about the Student Academy Awards and to watch clips from this years winners visit The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Spring 2010 Guidebooks
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GuideBook

DECENT GRADES? Up-and-coming (and soon gone!) noteworthy films, as reviewed by your devoted faculty...

AVATAR
Filmmaking as spectacle, with a radical shift as to what is possible: stunning CGI and visual design animate this twenty second century western of interplanetary exploitation. Will 3D bring out the depth (and ever expiate) the US massacre of its native population and the long trail of racism? No, but we will be totally immersed in the storybook and may even gain some perspective on this planet of ours!--> A+ (pm)

INVICTUS
Rugby pressing forward progress? Clint Eastwood takes that challenge to elegantly tackle the healing of South Africa through the charismatic figure of Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela, with the support of South African team captain Francois Pienaar (Matt Damon). Timely and as unreal as reality sometimes is--->A

HURT LOCKER (THE) The clock of our hearts beats tight, no skipping allowed! We are projected into the explosive situation of surviving a U.S. presence in Iraq: while we won't learn much about politics, through swift sound and picture editing, the adrenaline rush of those who go into the eye of the storm can be shared by all.---> A (pm)

THE MESSENGER
Woody Harrelson's duty as an army officer reflects the impossibility of acting as a link between the battlefield and civilian life. A necessary look into the lives of those who can never be comfortable with a country at war --->B+

UP IN THE AIR
Flying high above the earthly firing of working people, the unattached Clooney attempts a dry comedic swift swipe through life. ---> B+ (pm)

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