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
In Fall 2019, Film Studies will offer two ONLINE courses. ENG / FILMSTD 294: Game Culture and ENG / FILMSTD 383: Cinema and Genre Horror Films 1960-1985. Download the flyer with course descriptions and details.
A celebration of the Patricia Mellencamp Founding Collection and for a talk by Distinguished Professor Emerita Patricia Mellencamp took place last October 25th. Read the L&S In Focus e-magazine article entitled “Students breathe life into a long-forgotten film archive” about the Mellencamp Collection.
The September 2018 InFocus online magazine features an article about Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece’s new book, “The Optical Vacuum: Spectatorship and Modernized American Theater Architecture,” published by Oxford University Press. The book focuses on Benjamin Schlanger — primarily an architect — and… Read More
Film Studies’ new BMFS Certificate is featured in the article, “UWM introduces Business of Media & Film Studies Certificate” in the College of Letters & Science Magazine, In Focus.
The BMFS Cerificate will offer the student media literacy, an ability to understand and work within a global media culture, flexibility to adapt to emerging platforms, and crucial business skills such as accounting, marketing, and management. See our Business of Media and Film Studies Fact Sheet.
Megan Benedict (BA in Film Studies, and Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies is featured in the latest issue of InFocus, an online newsletter of the UWM College of Letters and Science.
Read the article.
UWM’s Allain Daigle wins the Domitor Student Award for his essay “Not A Betting Man: Stanford, Muybridge, and the Palo Alto Wager-Myth.” This essay tackles one of the oldest myths in pre-cinema history…
Elena Gorfinkel interviews Constance Penley for the SCMS Fieldnotes project. Penley talks about the early days of feminist film theory, as well as other topics.
Tasha Oren’s new co-edited collection, Global Asian American Popular Cultures, is just out from New York University Press.
