Professor Elana Levine recently featured on the Wisconsin Public Radio Program, “Central Time,” to discuss the future of the daytime talk show! You can listen to the interview here: https://www.wpr.org/future-daytime-talk-show

Congratulations to Film Studies Professor Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece and Director of the Center for 21st Century Studies, Professor Richard Grusin, on the release of their edited collection, Ends of Cinema, published by the University of Minnesota Press. More information here: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/ends-of-cinema

Prof. Tami Williams (English/Film Studies) was interviewed by France Culture (France’s NPR) on early feminist filmmaker Germaine Dulac for the 2020 Cannes International Film Festival video spotlight

Congratulations to Prof. Tami Williams (English/Film Studies) for winning the 2020 CNC – Centre National du Cinéma et de l’image animée book award for Germaine Dulac’s What is Cinema?, the first bilingual collection of writings by the early French feminist and film theorist.

I knew there were way more important things than basketball, and I was all for canceling everything back in March: in-person school, sports, plays, concerts, conferences, just shut it down. But, in order to hold this line, I had to force myself to stop thinking all the damn time about the interruption of the Milwaukee Bucks’ magical season…

This selective, three-day symposium takes place between Jan. 17-19, 2020 and features screenings, panels, and Q&As with film and television industry leaders.

In Her Stories, Elana Levine draws on archival research and her experience as a longtime soap fan to provide an in-depth history of the daytime television soap opera as a uniquely gendered cultural form and a central force in the economic and social influence of network television.

On Saturday, October 5th, UWM Film Studies Professor Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece will co-host a post-screening discussion of the special effects of ‘The Wizard of Oz’ at the University of California-Santa Barbara.

Gilberto Blasini has been appointed to the board of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), the leading scholarly organization in the United States dedicated to promoting a broad understanding of film, television, and related media through research and… Read More

Tami Williams has been appointed to the board of the Women and Film History International (WFHI), a clearinghouse for the scholarly study of all periods of women’s film history worldwide. Through her duties on the board, she will be contributing… Read More