Please join us on Friday, November 11th at 10:30AM in Cobb 311 as we welcome Priya Jaikumar, Associate Professor at the University of Southern California’s School of the Cinematic Arts. Professor Jaikumar will be presenting a paper entitled “Between Love and Orientalism in Jean Renoir’s The River.” Professor Jaikumar’s paper will not be pre-circulated. A discussion will follow her […]

Please join us on Friday, November 4th at 10:30AM in Cobb 311 as we welcome Mikki Kressbach, Ph.D. Candidate in Cinema and Media Studies. Mikki will be discussing her dissertation chapter-in-progress, “Found Footage Horror and the Evidentiary Effect, or How to Know an Outbreak.” Mikki’s paper is available for download here. Please email either Katerina Korola [katerinakorola@uchicago.edu] or […]

Please join us on Friday, October 21st at 10:30AM in Cobb 311 as we welcome Will Caroll, Ph.D. Candidate in Cinema and Media Studies. Will will be discussing his dissertation chapter-in-progress, “Meta-cinematic Space in Suzuki’s Nikkatsu Films; or, Can Cinefication Emancipate the Frame?” Will’s paper is available for download here. Please email either Katerina Korola [katerinakorola@uchicago.edu] or Dave Burnham [burnham@uchicago.edu] for the […]

Please join us on Friday, October 14th at 10:30AM in Cobb 311 as we welcome Jordan Schonig, Ph.D. Candidate in Cinema and Media Studies. Jordan will be discussing his dissertation chapter-in-progress, “Habitual Gestures: Postwar Realism, Embodied Agency, and the Inscription of Bodily Movement.” Jordan’s paper is available for download here. Please email either Katerina Korola [katerinakorola@uchicago.edu] or Dave Burnham […]

We are pleased to announce that Raymond Bellour will be joining us Tuesday, May 17, at 4:30 PM for a special meeting of Mass Culture Workshop in Cobb 425 (please note the non-standard day, time, and location). He hopes for a robust conversation around the locations and materialities of moving-image spectatorship. Raymond Bellour, critic and […]