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John Powers publishes new book on experimental film

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John Powers, Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies, has published Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture at Oxford University Press.

Maragh-Lloyd wins grant to study influence campaigns

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Three-year $1.7M grant to explore spread of online misinformation

Bogost named Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor

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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.

WashU Expert: Hunting for a picket line

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A veteran screenwriter ponders his fourth writers’ strike

We Settled for Catan

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Klaus Teuber’s creation captured hearts, and wallets, because everyone could tolerate it.

Blue Check Marks Were Always Shameless

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Twitter verification was first a tool for vanity.

FMS Professor Colin Burnett's Sight & Sound Greatest Films Ballot

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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.

Netflix Crossed a Line

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The intangibles you didn’t even realize you had come to expect are disappearing.

Television Is Better Without Video Games

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HBO’s adaptation of The Last of Us offers a definitive case for games’ narrative impoverishment.

Counting Fred Astaire’s steps

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A new book by Todd Decker uses computational analysis to examine Fred Astaire’s performance of heterosexual masculinity and whiteness.

Colin Burnett joins the editorial team of JCMS (formerly Cinema Journal)

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The First Minute of Every Phone Call Is Torture Now

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The Atlantic

TV’s “Fancy Cowboy” and the Legacy of Have Gun—Will Travel, Which Premiered September 14, 1957, Sixty-five Years Ago This Month

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The End of Manual Transmission

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Can video games teach people to be more empathetic? Maybe.

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Designers and scholars say there are many complex challenges and limits in achieving such a goal

On the Sunny Shores of Peppermint Bay: Remembering Shirley Temple

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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?

Good Morning, Belarus

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A Washington University screenwriting lecturer recalls a trip twenty years ago to Belarus that was not only “stranger than fiction” but “stranger than strange.”

Teaching and Learning with the Kartemquin Films Collection

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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.

Prof. Burnett comments on the upcoming James Bond film, No Time To Die, and the racial politics of casting Lashana Lynch as the first Black female 00 agent

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Diane Wei Lewis Promotion with tenure

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Diane Wei Lewis promoted to associate professor of film and media studies in Arts & Sciences.

New Blu-ray THE WOMAN ONE LONGS FOR (1929) with audio commentary by Gaylyn Studlar

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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.

New Blu-ray THE DELICIOUS LITTLE DEVIL (1919) with audio commentary by Gaylyn Studlar

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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.

Companionate computing

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Board Games as Therapeutic Media

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In an article in ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories, Prof. Hilu explores the history of therapeutic board games.

Interview with Prof. Burnett on his new James Bond project

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Prof. Burnett speaks about his Center for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship

John Powers, PhD, joins Film and Media Studies as an assistant professor.

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Please join us in welcoming John Powers, PhD, to the Program in Film & Media Studies!

Prof. Burnett takes a closer look at the She-Ra franchise

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In a blog post for the Animation Studies journal, Prof. Burnett examines She-Ra as a cross-media narrative.

VICTOR AND VICTORIA (1933) released on blu-ray with audio commentary by Professor Gaylyn Studlar

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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.

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Richard Chapman's documentary Dateline-Saigon released by First Run Features.

Prof. Chang-Min Yu accepts position as Assistant Professor at National Taiwan University

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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.

Funding New Research in the Humanities

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Prof. Lewis discusses funding opportunities for Washington University faculty in the humanities and humanistic social sciences.

Prof. Burnett speaks at the TIFF Lightbox

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His invited talk helped launch the TIFF's Robert Bresson retrospective.

Prof. Burnett has won a Faculty Fellowship from WashU's Center for the Humanities

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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.

Lecturer Yu’s book review in Los Angeles Review of Books

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Yu reviews Joseph Jeon’s volume on Korean cinema and imperialistic global capital.

Prof. Burnett's book on Robert Bresson reviewed in Senses of Cinema

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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).

New faculty book Powers of the Real: Cinema, Gender, and Emotion in Interwar Japan

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Prof. Lewis explores how images of women enthralled by cinema became a popular metaphor for the power of mass media in interwar Japan.

FMS welcomes two new faculty members!

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This fall, Film & Media Studies has add two new instructional faculty to their ranks.

Video Lecture: "Theorizing Threaded Media: Or, Why James Bond Isn't Just a Failed Attempt At Star Wars."

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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.

What will you remember, and what's next?

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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!

Poynter Institute for Media Studies ranks "Live From Baghdad"

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Live From Baghdad, Written and produced by Richard Chapman, rated 17th best out of top 25 journalism movies

Precarity and the sexual politics of Koreeda Hirokazu's Air Doll (2009)

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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.

The 007 Franchise--Past, Present and Future

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Prof. Burnett makes an appearance on the radio show/podcast Geek Universe

Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Reem Hilu

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Reem Hilu, PhD, joins the Film and Media Studies Program and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department as an assistant professor.

FMS welcomes seven new affiliated faculty members.

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In 2018, the Program in Film & Media Studies is proud to welcome seven new affiliated faculty members.

Technologies of the Avant-Garde

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Prof. Powers discusses optical printing in avant-garde cinema in the latest issue of Cinema Journal.

Rhythm à la française

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In this video lecture, Prof. Burnett discusses how French filmmakers reinvented the concept of rhythm.

The Great American Film

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Why Casablanca still lives in our hearts and minds.

Why Movie History Matters: Film Studies, Yesterday and Today

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FMS's Prof. Burnett traces the history of film studies through the writings of David Bordwell.

Black Panther and Popular Storytelling

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In this blog post, Prof. Burnett looks at how the film pushes mainstream conventions in a new direction.

Women's Labor and Japanese Animation

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Prof. Diane Wei Lewis discusses her new article in the Feminist Media Histories podcast on "Labor."

French realism and digital cinema

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In a new article, Prof. Colin Burnett discusses the theories of neglected French auteur Roger Leenhardt.

The Sewanee Review December

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With a flood threatening Collinsville, Illinois, in July 2014, Francesca Williams scrambled to transport her father Dakin’s legal correspondence upstairs from her basement.

Ten Intergroup Relations Films for the Current Era

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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.

Paul wins Theatre Library Association book award

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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.

World Building - Alien: Covenant w/ Professor Colin Burnett

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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.

Prof. Colin Burnett discusses his book, The Invention of Robert Bresson (2017), on a recent video podcast.

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Interview with Keith Reader and Colin Burnett was recorded on Saturday, 4/1/17

Revolution in the Reels: Filming Japan's Interwar Struggle

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Interview with film scholar Diane Wei Lewis.

The Invention of Robert Bresson: The Auteur and His Market

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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 Combat Movie Music and Sound after Vietnam

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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.