Film

Washington University hosts dozens of film screens each semester, from the student-run Filmboard's mix of cult favorites, world classics and Hollywood hits to special screenings sponsored by the Program in Film & Media Studies in Arts & Sciences, the Gallery of Art and other campus areas. Meanwhile, Film & Media Studies faculty include both veteran filmmakers and widely published film and television theorists, with associated faculty drawn from American Culture Studies, Art History & Archaeology, Comparative Literature, English, Germanic Languages and Literature and other university areas.

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William J. Paul Professor of Performing Arts in Arts & Sciences Paul has written widely on comedy and film. He is the author of Ernst Lubitsch's Americans American Comedy, an examination of the famous German emigre director's Hollywood comedies, and Laughing Screaming: Modern Hollywood Horror & Comedy, a cultural history that looks at the rise of "grossout" comedy ... Expertise: film, comedy, Ernst Lubitsch, comedy and horror, movie theatre architecture, "grossout" comedy Media assistance: (314) 935-8494 / liam_otten@wustl.edu

Pier Marton Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Studies in Arts & Sciences Marton is a video maker/new media artist and writer whose work addresses issues of ethnicity, spirituality, audience passivity, and violence. Titles include Collected Works: 1979-1984, a series of shorts; Say I'm A Jew, which collects interviews with the children of Holocaust survivors; and (are we ... Expertise: Holocaust, Jewish identity, filmmaking, spirituality, videomaking, violence Direct contact: (314) 935-4055 / marton@artsci.wustl.edu

Richard Chapman Lecturer in Screenwriting in Arts & Sciences Chapman Download Chapman is a veteran screenwriter and producer in film and television with particular interest in the ways journalists report on war. He recently co-wrote the Golden Globe-nominated HBO Original Film Live From Baghdad, which told the behind-the-scenes story of CNN's coverage of the early days of the ... Expertise: CNN, Iraq, Vietnam, film production, screenwriting, television production, war reporting Direct contact: (314) 935-8238 / rchapman@artsci.wustl.edu

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News Stories & Tip Sheets:

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Sixth Annual Children's Film Symposium Washington University and Cinema St. Louis host free screenings Nov. 21 Nov. 12, 2009 -- Princess of the Sun (2007) Download Washington University's Center for the Humanities and Program in Film & Media Studies, both in Arts & Sciences, will host their Sixth Annual Children's Film Symposium Saturday, Nov. 21. Titled "An Exploration of Children's Films and Their Audiences," the symposium is presented in conjunction with Cinema St. Louis and will feature five screenings as well as a Q&A with Michael Barrier, an animation and comics historian and author of The Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney (2007).

Dancing Who I Am Concert/panel discussion to examine dance and ethnic identity Sept. 12; film screening Sept. 13 Sept. 3, 2009 -- Rulan Tangen Around the world dance is often quite literally the physical embodiment of cultural identity and practice. Yet for individual dancers, the power of such traditions can give rise to certain expectations and even stereotypes based on perceived identity. On Sept. 12 the Dance Program in the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences will explore the role of ethnicity in contemporary dance with "Dancing Who I Am," a panel discussion and informal concert featuring faculty members as well as leading critics and choreographers from around the country. The event comes as part of the semester-long series "Ethnic Profiling: A Challenge to Democracy," organized by the Center for the Study of Ethics and Human Values. Also as part of the series, the Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies will screen Ancestor Eyes, an award-winning Native American short film, Sept. 13.

Assembly Series Fall 2009 lecture program begins with a comic touch by alum Ramis Sept. 1, 2009 -- The fall 2009 Assembly Series will start off on a light note with comedic filmmaker and Washington University alumnus Harold Ramis. The series continues through mid-November covering topics on entrepreneurship, equal rights, human rights, government and the environment.

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Hemingway pal A.E. Hotchner recalls his old friend Associated Press and 11 others July 21, 2005 -- Dear Papa, Dear Hotch -- letters between Ernest Hemingway and WUSTL alum A.E. Hotchner -- will be released this fall by U. Missouri Press. Hotchner talks about his friend and his life.

Gerald Early is advisor for new Ken Burns' film on boxer Jack Johnson Newsday July 21, 2004 -- Burns was on hand to discuss his new four-hour film about Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight boxing champion (1908-14), due to premiere on PBS in January. Burns said that time, study and exposure to black scholars such as WUSTL professor Gerald Early, a key consultant on "Baseball," "Jazz" and now "Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson," have given him - and thus his company's films - a more mature understanding of race in America.

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Reporting 'the real GI experience' not likely in a war today, filmmaker says
Feb. 2003 — Among the many casualties of the Vietnam War was the relationship between the Pentagon and the American press. And though time heals most wounds, lingering scar tissue from that particular fracture likely will impede U.S. correspondents should we go to war again, says filmmaker Richard Chapman.