We’re excited to share the 2022 Fall Schedule for Mass Culture. Please join us for the following events: Friday, November 4th, 2022: Mass Culture: Revisited Reading Group–Joel Sutherland (Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago) Friday, November 11th, 2022: A Conversation with Dan Schrecker–Richard Neer (Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago). Friday, November 18th, […]

Please join us this Friday, May 27th from 11:00am to 12:30pm in Cobb 311 for our final Mass Culture Workshop of Spring 2022. We are excited to have Anne Eakin Moss (Assistant Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures) presenting a draft chapter this week entitled “Enchant: Cinema’s ‘Miracles,’” from her book manuscript The Special Effects of Soviet […]

Please join us this Friday, May 20th from 11:00am to 12:30pm in Cobb 311 for our next Mass Culture Workshop of Spring 2022. We are excited to have Constantine Nakassis (Associate Professor of Anthropology and of the Social Sciences in the College) presenting a paper this week entitled “Voicing, Looking, Perspective.” Sasha Crawford-Holland (PhD Candidate, […]

Please join us this Friday, March 4th from 11:00am to 12:30pm in Cobb 311 for our next Mass Culture Workshop of Winter 2022. We are excited to have Joel Sutherland (PhD Student, Cinema and Media Studies) presenting a paper this week entitled “Supernatural Realism: Bazin, The Witch and the Unknowable” Access to the pre-circulated paper […]

Please join us this Friday, February 4th from 11:00am to 12:30pm in Cobb 311 for our first Mass Culture Workshop of Winter 2022. We are excited to have Toby Wu (MAPH, Art History and Cinema and Media Studies) presenting a paper this week entitled “Idemitsu Mako’s Charged Televisual Field: Reconstituting the Female Housewife in Kiyoko’s […]