John Powers publishes new book on experimental film
John Powers, Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies, has published Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture at Oxford University Press.
John Powers, Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies, has published Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture at Oxford University Press.
Three-year $1.7M grant to explore spread of online misinformation
Ian Bogost has been named the Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor at Washington University in St. Louis. A lecture and reception to celebrate his appointment were held March 29 in Ridgley Hall’s Holmes Lounge.
A veteran screenwriter ponders his fourth writers’ strike
Klaus Teuber’s creation captured hearts, and wallets, because everyone could tolerate it.
Twitter verification was first a tool for vanity.
In December 2022, Sight & Sound magazine (UK) released its once-per-decade poll of the 100 Greatest Films of All Time, first conducted in 1952. Film & Media Studies professor Colin Burnett was among the 1600 critics and scholars from across the globe to contribute a ballot.
The intangibles you didn’t even realize you had come to expect are disappearing.
HBO’s adaptation of The Last of Us offers a definitive case for games’ narrative impoverishment.
A new book by Todd Decker uses computational analysis to examine Fred Astaire’s performance of heterosexual masculinity and whiteness.
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Designers and scholars say there are many complex challenges and limits in achieving such a goal
April 23 will mark the birthday of Shirley Temple (1928-2014). Anniversaries of the birth or death of stars are frequently relegated to the category of minutiae—internet trivia quizzes, daily calendar notations, the online “on this day in history” reminder. We may find a few seconds or even minutes for this reminder, but how often does it spark reflection on how our lives are intertwined with popular culture history?
A Washington University screenwriting lecturer recalls a trip twenty years ago to Belarus that was not only “stranger than fiction” but “stranger than strange.”
The Washington University Libraries acquired the collection of the esteemed documentary production company Kartemquin Films in the spring of 2021. One of the most exciting things that have happened with the collection was the class that Film and Media Studies Professor John Powers taught in the fall 2021 semester.
Diane Wei Lewis promoted to associate professor of film and media studies in Arts & Sciences.
Marlene Dietrich for years insisted that The Blue Angel (1930) was her screen debut, when in fact she was catapulted to fame by this silent drama of 1929, which fits neatly among the visually dynamic and emotionally dark melodramas of Josef von Sternberg and G.W. Pabst.
The Delicious Little Devil (1919) is a delightfully risqué silent comedy starring Mae Murray and Rudolph Valentino (The Sheik), presented in a 4K restoration by Universal Pictures.
In an article in ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories, Prof. Hilu explores the history of therapeutic board games.
Prof. Burnett speaks about his Center for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship
Please join us in welcoming John Powers, PhD, to the Program in Film & Media Studies!
In a blog post for the Animation Studies journal, Prof. Burnett examines She-Ra as a cross-media narrative.
VICTOR AND VICTORIA (Original 1933 German Version) released on Blu-ray with audio commentary by professor Gaylyn Studlar.
Richard Chapman's documentary Dateline-Saigon released by First Run Features.
It is with great excitement that we announce that Professor Chang-Min Yu will be returning to his alma mater, National Taiwan University, as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures in the fall of 2020.
Prof. Lewis discusses funding opportunities for Washington University faculty in the humanities and humanistic social sciences.
His invited talk helped launch the TIFF's Robert Bresson retrospective.
Prof. Colin Burnett has won a Faculty Fellowship from Washington University's Center for the Humanities. This Fellowship, set for the Fall semester of 2020, will allow Prof. Burnett to pursue his research on James Bond and the modern media franchise.
Yu reviews Joseph Jeon’s volume on Korean cinema and imperialistic global capital.
In the October 2019 issue of the online film journal Senses of Cinema, Dudley Andrew, R. Seldon Rose Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of Film Studies at Yale University, reviews Prof. Colin Burnett's The Invention of Robert Bresson: The Auteur and His Market (2016).
Prof. Lewis explores how images of women enthralled by cinema became a popular metaphor for the power of mass media in interwar Japan.
This fall, Film & Media Studies has add two new instructional faculty to their ranks.
In this talk, Prof. Burnett argues that franchise properties like James Bond differ from Star Wars by showing a preference for multiplicity over unity, providing consumers with numerous serial continuities to “thread” between in distinct media.
As the school year comes to a close, six faculty members entering full retirement reflect on favorite moments and noteworthy achievements from their careers in Arts & Sciences. Congratulations to all faculty entering full and phased retirement!
Live From Baghdad, Written and produced by Richard Chapman, rated 17th best out of top 25 journalism movies
In her new article in Screen, Diane Wei Lewis examines popular representations of precarity in Japan with close attention to the 2009 film Air Doll and its 1998-9 manga source text.
Prof. Burnett makes an appearance on the radio show/podcast Geek Universe
Reem Hilu, PhD, joins the Film and Media Studies Program and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department as an assistant professor.
In 2018, the Program in Film & Media Studies is proud to welcome seven new affiliated faculty members.
Prof. Powers discusses optical printing in avant-garde cinema in the latest issue of Cinema Journal.
In this video lecture, Prof. Burnett discusses how French filmmakers reinvented the concept of rhythm.
Why Casablanca still lives in our hearts and minds.
FMS's Prof. Burnett traces the history of film studies through the writings of David Bordwell.
In this blog post, Prof. Burnett looks at how the film pushes mainstream conventions in a new direction.
Prof. Diane Wei Lewis discusses her new article in the Feminist Media Histories podcast on "Labor."
In a new article, Prof. Colin Burnett discusses the theories of neglected French auteur Roger Leenhardt.
With a flood threatening Collinsville, Illinois, in July 2014, Francesca Williams scrambled to transport her father Dakin’s legal correspondence upstairs from her basement.
Following the eruption of racial violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 12, 2017, the 1943 US War Department film, Don’t Be a Sucker, went viral, suggesting that news outlets and social media users found its message to be newly relevant.
William Paul, professor of film and media studies in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has won the 2017 Richard Wall Memorial Award from the Theatre Library Association (TLA) in New York.
Eli, Jeremy and returning guest Colin Burnett discuss the merits of the newest addition to the Alien franchise. Colin makes a case for the world building advancing through Ridley Scott's return to the world of Alien.
Interview with Keith Reader and Colin Burnett was recorded on Saturday, 4/1/17
Interview with film scholar Diane Wei Lewis.
Challenging the prevailing notion among cinephiles that the auteur is an isolated genius interested primarily in individualism, Colin Burnett positions Robert Bresson as one whose life's work confronts the cultural forces that helped shape it.
Hymns for the Fallen listens closely to forty years of Hollywood combat films produced after Vietnam. Ever a noisy genre, post-Vietnam war films have deployed music and sound to place the audience in the midst of battle and to stimulate reflection on the experience of combat.