Feb. 22, 2019 — Aurore Spiers

Please join us on Friday, February 22, 2019 at 11:00 AM in Cobb 311 for the third meeting of the Mass Culture Workshop for the Winter Quarter. We are delighted to have Aurore Spiers, PhD Candidate in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. Her presentation is entitled, “Blackface Performance(s) in Edgar Arceneaux’s Until, Until, Until… (2015).” Prof. […]

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Feb. 8 — Berthold Hoeckner

Please join us on Friday, February 8, 2019 at 11:00 AM in Cobb 311 for the second meeting of the Mass Culture Workshop for the Winter Quarter. We are delighted to have Berthold Hoeckner, Professor of Music and Associate Faculty Member of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. His presentation is entitled, “Melodrama, Modernity, and Bittersweetness.” […]

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