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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.
Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies Racquel Gates is co-editing a book series for Duke University Press called Console-ing Passions: Television and Cultural Power.
A shrine of white stone ringed by thin-leafed trees. A smoking battleship, a mass of crushed rubble. A soldier lifting a sandbag. A stretch of shoreline, a child wearing a ribboned straw hat. These were some of the images screened for the audience during “A ‘Toy Film’ History of Shōwa: The Second Sino-Japanese War, 1931–1945,” presented at the Lenfest Center for the Arts on September 17, 2023.
Professor Rob King has co-edited, along with Charlie Keil, The Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema. The book will be published in early 2024 by Oxford University Press.
Where There’s Smoke, an immersive storytelling experience created by Associate Professor Lance Weiler, is on view now through October 1, 2023 at ArtYard Gallery in New Jersey.
The 2023 Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Easy Award Winners have been announced, and several Film and Media Studies alumni and faculty members are among the honorees.
Associate Professor Lance Weiler is an A.I. convert. His art students at Columbia University are still debating the creative value of ChatGPT and Midjourney. Powerful tools or a crutch? Read more in The New York Times.
Professor of Film and Media Studies Rob King has edited a special issue of Edinburgh Univserity Press's journal of Crime Fiction Studies.
Associate Professor Racquel Gates is featured in the latest issue from Film Quarterly.
The 2023 Film Independent Spirit Awards took place over the weekend, with the Columbia filmmakers behind Joyland and The Cathedral taking home top prizes.