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Film and Media Studies
Film & Media Studies in Arts & Sciences is a stand-alone program, unaffiliated with any department, though many of its courses are cross-listed with American Culture Studies, Art History, Comparative Literature, English, Germanic Languages & Literature and History.
The undergraduate major in film and media studies requires the rigorous study of history and aesthetics in an attempt to understand the creative force of an individual art work, its relation to other artistic production, and its place in culture. Furthermore, because film and media creations are most often produced within an industrial context, the student of film and media must also study industrial and business practices.
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Sixth Annual Children's Film Symposium
Washington University and Cinema St. Louis host free screenings Nov. 21
Nov. 12,
2009 --
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).
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African Film Festival at Washington University March 23-26
Traveling Film Series to feature eight films from six nations
March 3,
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The annual Washington University African Film Festival will be held March 26-29. The event will feature films that emphasize movement and migration and their impact on African's shifting identities. All screenings are free and open to the public and begin at 7 p.m. each evening in Brown Hall, Room 100. A postshow discussion and reception will follow Saturday's films.
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"The Future of the Image"
W.J.T. Mitchell to speak on visual culture March 2
Feb. 24,
2009 -- W.J.T. Mitchell, the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor in the departments of Art History and English at the University of Chicago, will speak on "The Future of the Image" at 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 2, in the Etta Eiseman Steinberg Auditorium as part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts' spring lecture series. An award-winning teacher, scholar and theorist of media, art and literature, Mitchell is associated with the emergent fields of visual culture and iconology—the study of images across the media.
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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
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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
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marton@artsci.wustl.edu
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Richard Chapman
Lecturer in Screenwriting in Arts & Sciences
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
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rchapman@artsci.wustl.edu
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Stephan Schindler
Chair of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Stephan K. Schindler, associate professor of German, Comparative Literature and Film Studies Schindler's interests include 18th and 20th Century German literature and culture, German intellectual history, film studies, Holocaust studies, gender studies and contemporary German political and social issues. ...
Expertise: 18th & 20th century german literature and culture, German intellectual history, film studies
Direct contact: (314) 935-5136
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skschind@artsci.wustl.edu
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Additional Information: Access denied: Reporting 'the real GI experience' not likely in a war today, filmmaker says
February 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.
Advertising for good: Film students highlight worthy messages
May 4, 2001 — Students in "Digital Video Post-production," an upper-level seminar, have worked with local not-for-profit agencies such as Operation Food Search, Our Little Haven and Habitat for Humanity to develop a half-dozen fully produced, 30-second public service announcements (PSAs).
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