What has changed, is changing, can change, and/or can never change “over time” in film and media? The transformation from technological instrument to human art and back again to machines without humans is evident in terminological changes over a century: kinetograph, cinématographe, cinematograph, historiograph, animated pictures, motion photography, photoplay, motion picture film, motion picture, made-for-tv movie, video, digital video, digital cinema, computer graphics imaging, surveillance video, iphone videos, and gaming.
The Eighth Annual MA in Film and Media Studies Conference will present papers by the class of 2026 on this topic and will include the 5th Annual Thomas Elsaesser Memorial Lecture with Allyson Field, Associate Professor of Film, University of Chicago.
This event is for CUID holders only. No Registration is required.
Conference Schedule
9 AM–6:30 PM: Conference Panels
6:30 PM: The 5th Annual Thomas Elsaesser Memorial Lecture with Allyson Field
“Black Love on Screen: Archival Rediscovery and the Kiss that Made Film History”
Allyson Field is an associate professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity (Duke University Press, 2015) and coeditor of Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film (Duke University Press, 2019) and L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema (University of California Press, 2015).
