After taking an editing class his sophomore year, he became a film and media studies major instead. Bell works in a variety of media, from collage and sculpture to animation and film. “I try to collage all my different skills into my own sort of aesthetic,” he said...

Library staffers at Harvard see the potential for using gaming and crowdsourcing to widen access to old, handwritten documents and other challenging materials. “There’s a great future to engaging the public with games that support cultural heritage,” said Professor Flanagan.

Limiting herself as much as possible to technology available in the silent film era, Furlong strived to make "a film that would fit seamlessly into the canon of Gothic Expressionist films from the days of early cinema." The film will be shown in the BFVAC Loew Theatre at 7PM January 6th...

In the December 21 New York Times blog Motherlode, KJ Dell'Antonia interviews Professor Mary Flanagan about games and whether or not you should trust those on-the-box accolades... Read the full blog here

"The trend toward “whiteboard interviews” constitutes a form of hazing, bound to attract only certain personalities and demographics to tech jobs" writes Professor Flanagan (with Mary Hudson) in this piece published in the Concord Monitor...

The student documentary produced in the spring 2014 FS39: Group Documentary course, Good Vibes and Duct Tape: Stories with Cindy Pierce, is going to be broadcast on Maine Public Broadcasting Network.

The Media Ecology Project has received an NEH Tier 1 Research and Development Grant from the Office of Preservation and Access to build a Semantic Annotation Tool (SAT). The two-year grant begins Jan 1, 2016, and is also supported by Dartmouth College in myriad ways.

Professor Ruoff (with co-editor Lydia Papadimitriou) has co-edited the March issue of the New Review of Film and Television Studies. The special issue is devoted to "Film Festivals: Origins and Trajectories", and includes articles by scholars from England, Switzerland, Australia, Japan, China, France, Peru, Turkey, and the U.S....

There is only a month left to apply to the Summer 2016 Film and Media Studies program in Edinburgh Scotland! The program will run 10th June - 25th August 2016.

The students of Film Studies 47 Cut & Paste Cinema will screen their works on Tuesday, November 17th at 7pm in the Loew Theater, Black Family Visual Arts Center...