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Film and Media Studies alum Kate Saccone '13 has contributed a chapter to Doing Digital Film History: Concepts, Tools, Practices (De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2024), a new book examining how digital technologies have transformed film historical research and teaching practices.
Adjunct Assistant Professor and Film alum J. Hoberman '81 explores the rich cultural landscape of 1960s New York City in his upcoming book Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde. Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, and Radical Pop.
Film and Media Studies Professor Rob King is set to release his highly anticipated book, Man Of Taste: The Erotic Cinema of Radley Metzger, on March 25, 2025.
The School of the Arts's Digital Storytelling Lab (DSL) recently hosted two immersive experiences which invited participants to explore how emerging technologies intersect with storytelling, community, and our collective imagination.
Film and Media Studies alum Alexandra James Salichs ’18 is part of the curatorial team behind Color in Motion: Chromatic Explorations of Cinema, a new exhibition that opened October 6 at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles.
Film and Media Studies alum Carolyn Condon Jacobs ’15 has received this year’s Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Dissertation Award for her piece, Sanitizing Cinema: Public Health and the Regulation of American Motion Pictures, 1896-1920.
With the Women Film Pioneers Project, Professor Jane Gaines highlights the women who helped shape the early film industry.
Professor Lance Weiler shares his thoughts about the potential and challenges of generative AI, the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration, and how discovering our own voice can lead to a more effective use of technology.
Last December, Professor of Film and Media Studies Richard Peña reflected on his career by selecting six influential films to screen in a three-day festival at The Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room in Columbia University School of the Arts's Lenfest Center for the Arts.
The Museum of Modern Art held a special film festival, “After Alice, Beyond Lois: Mining the Archive with the Women Film Pioneers Project,” from October 25 to November 10, 2023. The screenings commemorated the tenth anniversary of Columbia University Libraries’ Women Film Pioneers Project, a digital publication and film archival resource committed to preserving the history of women filmmakers during the Silent Film Era.
We talk with Professor James Schamus about the film industry as a dream factory in need of regulations, how we’re constantly creating usefulness out of the useless, and why everything that is possible demands to exist.
Velvet Curtains and Gilded Frames: The Art of Early European Cinema, a new book by Adjunct Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies, Vito Adriaensens, is set to be released by Edinburgh University Press next month.