All undergraduate students are invited to submit original screenplays to participate in this annual award. The winners will receive cash prizes. The submission deadline is at 11:59 pm on Wednesday, March 27, 2024.

We are thrilled to share Prof. Lawrence's new book "Ghost Channels, Paranormal Reality Television and the Haunting of Twenty-First-Century America" published by the University Press of Mississippi in March 2022. This book is considered to be the first scholarly study of the frighteningly popular paranormal reality television genre.

The "Venn Vision" award helps interlocking circles of scholars share research interests, motivating faculty of all ranks to reach out to colleagues in concrete ways for inspiration. Congratulations to John Bell et al. on their grant for the project "Being Seen: Audiences in Virtual Reality."

You are invited to the students' final project screening of FILM 31 (Filmmaking I) and FILM 47.02 (Theory and Practice of Editing) courses with Prof. Shevaun Mizrahi. Sunday, March 6, 5—6:45 pm and 7—9 pm, Loew Auditorium, VAC.

Visual Artist Dread Scott will be presenting "Imagine a World Without America" on Tuesday, March 1, 2022, at 5 pm in the Loew Auditorium, VAC. This event will be live-streamed via YouTube.

Dr. Sheppard on TCM's Black History Month. Black History Month is an annual celebration of achievements by African Americans in recognition of their role in U.S. history. TCM host Jacqueline Stewart and special guests share a collection of films honoring Black History Month each Sunday this month.

The F&MS Department is offering exciting courses in S22, Film History I (Silence to Sound), International Cinema and WW II History and Memory, Video Mashups, The Idea of Africa, Sound Practice and Theory, Film and Fashion, Video Art, Game Design, Storytelling in the Digital Age and more! Read this article for the information about each one....

Daniela Rosner is an associate professor of human-centered design and engineering at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on how cultural histories are woven into our interactions with things we create. Workshop on Feb. 24, 2022 at 1:15 pm via Zoom.

"Perhaps Garbo speaks to us through the years as modernity's 'new woman'--in her confounding gender and sexual identities, in her refusal to be exploited, and in her disinterest in domesticity as a woman's destiny," the professor of film and media studies writes in "The Washington Post."

Prof. Mark Williams (Media Ecology Project ) and Shanghai University signed a cooperation agreement on digital tools and technologies for moving image visual culture research.