Raven Power: Industrial Multimedia and the Fate of 16mm in the 1970s and 1980s

Presenter: Zachary Vanes (PhD Candidate, Cinematic Arts, University of Iowa)

Respondent: Allyson Nadia Field (Associate Professor, Cinema & Media Studies, University of Chicago)

November 7, 2025; 11:00–12:30; Cobb 311

Please join us on Friday, November 7th, for our first Mass Culture workshop of Autumn 2025.

Zachary Vanes Mass Culture Paper
The paper password is provided through the Mass Culture listserv. 

Zachary Vanes is a PhD candidate in the Department of Cinematic Arts at the University of Iowa. His work was published in the peer-reviewed journal Film History, and he is the curator of the educational video compilation Video Art and Mass Incarceration (Video Data Bank, 2020).

Allyson Nadia Field is Associate Professor of Cinema & Media Studies, Fundamentals, and the College at the University of Chicago. Her scholarship contributes to evolving areas of study that investigate the functioning of race and representation in interdisciplinary contexts surrounding cinema. Her publications include Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film & The Possibility of Black Modernity (Duke University Press, 2015) and Acts of Love: Black Performance and the Kiss that Changed Film History (University of California Press, 2026).