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Professor Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece featured on WPR’s “Central Time” and Yahoo! News

Film Studies Director Professor Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece was recently interviewed for WPR’s “Central Time” and Yahoo! News on the topics of music at the movies and the joy of massive box office failures. Listen to the interview or read about the… Read More

Samantha Peetz interviewed by the Shepherd Express

Current Film Studies major and SEEN organizer, Samantha Peetz, was interviewed by the Shepherd Express regarding the collective’s screenings, art installations, and the upcoming Hallo-SEEN event. The full article and information on Hallo-SEEN can be found here: SEEN Centers Queer Filmmakers… Read More

Film Studies Professor Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece comments on the closing of Milwaukee’s Downer Theatre

Milwaukee’s oldest cinema, the Downer Theatre, closed recently and UWM’s Director of Film Studies, Professor Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece, spoke with Spectrum News 1.

Professor Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece Featured on WPR’s “Central Time”

Film Studies Director and Professor Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece was featured on WPR’s “Central Time” on Thursday, September 14th. You can listen to the show here: After ‘Barbenheimer’ summer, will the movie theater comeback continue? | Wisconsin Public Radio (wpr.org)

Book talk with Professor Gordon

Boswell Book Company presents an evening with Marsha Gordon, author of Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life & Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott. Cosponsored by the UWM Film Studies Program. The book talk with Professor Gordon will begin at 6:30pm on… Read More

Film Screening: “The Divorcee”

Film Studies is co-sponsoring a free screening of the 1930 film, The Divorcee, introduced by Professor Marsha Gordon of North Carolina State University. The screening will take place at the Union Cinema at 7:00pm on Wednesday, September 27. More information about… Read More

Professor Szczepaniak-Gillece featured on “Lake Effect”

Professor and Director of Film Studies Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece was featured on WUWM’s “Lake Effect,” Monday, May 22, 2023. She spoke about “trash cinema” and her class on that subject. Click here to listen to the full program.

Film Studies Faculty Featured on CBS 58 “Sunday Morning Spotlight”

Film Studies Professors Tami Williams and Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece were featured on Milwaukee CBS 58 “Sunday Morning Spotlight” on October 30th. They spoke about UWM’s Home Movie Day event, which occurred on October 15th. You can watch the entire feature on… Read More

Coming soon! Summer 2022 Film Studies Courses!

Art History/English/Film Studies 111: Entertainment Arts—Film, Television and the Internet Professor Gilberto M. Blasini 1st 4-Week Summer Session (May 31st – 25, 2022) Email address: gblasini@uwm.edu Course Description: Art History/English/Film Studies 111 offers a general introduction to the critical study… Read More

Professor Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece featured on WUWM’s “Curious Campus”

Film Studies Professor Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece was recently featured on WUWM’s “Curious Campus” to discuss the movie theater experience, the pandemic, and other topics. Listen to the program here. Read the article from the UWM Report here.