November 4, 2016 – Mikki Kressbach

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 […]

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October 21, 2016 – Will Carroll

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 […]

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October 14, 2016 – Jordan Schonig

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 […]

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Mass Culture Workshop Fall Schedule

Greetings All! The Mass Culture Workshop is thrilled to announce our Fall Schedule. We look forward to seeing many of you at these discussions and presentations! Our fall program begins on Friday, October 14th from 1030am-1230pm with Cinema and Media Studies PhD candidate Jordan Schonig. Jordan will be presenting a chapter-in-progress from his dissertation, tentatively […]

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May 17 – Raymond Bellour

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 […]

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May 13 – Shannon Foskett

Please join us on Friday, May 13 at 10:30 AM in Cobb 311 as we welcome Shannon Foskett, Ph.D. candidate in Cinema and Media Studies; she will discuss “Imaging and Imagining with fMRI: Neuroscientific Viewing, Diaphanous Screens and the Promise of Representation,” a dissertation chapter in progress. Refreshments will be provided. Shannon’s paper is available for download here. Please email […]

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