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. […]

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.” […]

Please join us on Friday, January 25, 2019 at 11:00 AM in Cobb 311 for the first meeting of the Mass Culture Workshop for the Winter Quarter. We are delighted to have David Bordwell, Jacques Ledoux Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. His presentation is entitled,”Explanations of style, styles of explanation.” Lois Weber’s False […]

Please join us on Friday, November 30, 2018 at 11:00 AM in Cobb 311 for the next meeting of the Mass Culture Workshop. We are delighted to have Liz Hopkins, PhD Candidate in the Department of Music at The University of Chicago. She will be presenting a chapter in-progress from her dissertation entitled “Sonic Seascapes, Science, and the Chthulucene.” **This […]

Please join us on Friday, November 16, 2018 at 11:00 AM in Cobb 311 for the next meeting of the Mass Culture Workshop. We are delighted to have Kara Keeling, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at The University of Chicago. She will be presenting a chapter from her forthcoming book Queer Times, Black Futures […]

Please join us on Friday, November 2, 2018 at 11:00 AM in Cobb 311 for the next meeting of the Mass Culture Workshop. We are delighted to have Jennifer Fay, Associate Professor of Film and English at Vanderbilt University. She will be presenting a chapter from her recent book Inhospitable World: Cinema in the Time of the […]