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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.
Here, we talk with Film and Media Studies Professor of Professional Practice Richard Peña about finding black holes in film history, why you should watch a movie at least three times, and why film, unlike painting or poetry, transcends borders more easily.
Kate Saccone ’13, an alumna of the Film and Media Studies Program, was invited to curate a program of films titled New Beginnings as part of the Netherland Silent Film Festival—the biggest film festival in the Netherlands in the field of Silent Film.
Adjunct Professor Ivone Marguiles has written an essay for the Criterion Collection release of two of the most acclaimed films by Marguerite Duras, India Song and Baxter, Vera Baxter.