See details below for the Mass Culture Workshop Schedule for Spring 2025. Please save the following dates:

 

SCMS Practice Panel:

• Daniel C. Pinto, “‘That’s ORWO’: Chromatic Politics and Color Film History in East German Film Stock Advertising”
• Frank Ming, “The Age of the World Model”
• Ziyi Lin, “The Girl is a Hidden Witch: Self-Disciplining, Switching, and Mediated Subjectivity of Shōjo in Japan’s Magic Girl Anime”
• Bret Hart, “The Rise of Influencers and the Reign of Casual Games: Kim Kardashian: Hollywood at 10”

Friday, March 28th, 11:00–12:45, Cobb 311
Co-sponsored by the Digital Media Workshop

Cassandra Guan (Assistant Professor, Cinema & Media Studies)
Title: “No Way Home: The Chinese New Year Film, or Primitive Accumulation in the Field of Vision”
Respondent: Rochona Majumdar (Professor, Cinema & Media Studies)
Friday, April 18th, 11:00–12:30, Cobb 311

 

Zach Yost (PhD Candidate, Cinema and Media Studies)
Title: “Computer Speculations: A.K. Dewdney’s Media Experiments in Science Education”
Friday, May 2nd, 11:00–12:30, Cobb 311

 

Anna Maria Lorusso (Professor, Department of the Arts, University of Bologna)
Title: “Beyond True and False: Facts, Fictions, Fakes”
Tuesday, May 13th, 3:30-5:00 pm, Cobb 311
Co-sponsored by the Semiotics Workshop

 

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