Please join us on Friday, May 12th at 10:30AM in Cobb 311 for the third Spring Quarter meeting of the Mass Culture Workshop. This week we welcome Jordan Schonig, PhD Candidate in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies. Jordan will be presenting the introduction to his dissertation on cinematic motion and film theory, titled “Cinema’s Motion Forms.” Jordan’s paper is available for download here. […]

Please join us on Friday, May 5th at 10:30AM in Cobb 311 for the Mass Culture Workshop’s next Spring Quarter meeting. This time, we welcome Tien-Tien Jong, PhD Student in Cinema and Media Studies. Tien-Tien will be presenting a a paper entitled “Missing Pictures, Looks of Silence: Trauma as Child’s Play in The Act of Killing […]

Please join us on Friday, March 31st at 10:30AM in Cobb 311 for the Mass Culture Workshop’s first Spring Quarter meeting. This time, we welcome James Rosenow, PhD Candidate in Cinema and Media Studies. James will be presenting a draft of her dissertation chapter, entitled “How to–Be Avant-Garde.” James’s paper is available for download here. Please email […]

The Mass Culture Workshop is happy to announce our Spring 2017 Schedule. All Spring sessions will be meet on Fridays from 10:30am-12:30pm in Cobb 311, unless otherwise noted. March 31: James Rosenow, PhD Candidate, Cinema and Media Studies. How to: Be Avant-Garde in the Thirties April 21: Keynote Address of the Cinema and Media Studies […]

Please join us on Friday, March 3rd at 10AM in Cobb 311 for our final Winter Quarter meeting of the Mass Culture Workshop. This time, we welcome Pedro Noel Doreste, PhD Student in Cinema and Media Studies. Pedro will be presenting an article draft titled “Revolutionary Exceptions: Reception of The Godfather Films in Cuba.” Pedro’s paper […]

Please join us on Friday, February 17th at 10AM in Cobb 311 for our fourth Winter Quarter meeting of the Mass Culture Workshop. This time, we welcome Gary Kafer, PhD Candidate in Cinema and Media Studies. Gary will be presenting an article in progress titled “Believing is Being: Selfies, Referentiality, and the Politics of Belief in Amalia Ulman’s Instagram.” […]