Please join us on Friday, February 12 at 10:30 AM in Cobb 311 as we welcome Matt Hubbell, Ph.D. candidate in Cinema and Media Studies; he will discuss “History and Gesture: The Zanzibar Films in the Shadow of May,” a dissertation chapter in progress. Refreshments will be provided. Matt’s paper is available for download here. Please email one of […]

Please join Mass Culture this coming Monday afternoon for a special co-presentation with the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Cultures Workshop: “‘A bright continuous flow’: Magic Lantern Phantasmagoria and Historical Fiction in A Tale of Two Cities” Amanda Shubert PhD Student in English, University of Chicago Monday, February 8th 4:30-6 pm (please note unusual date & time) […]

Please join us on Friday, February 5 at 10:30 AM in Cobb 311 as we welcome Richard Davis, Ph.D. candidate in Cinema and Media Studies and East Asian Languages and Civilizations; he will discuss “Parody Jidai and the Monkey Man,” a dissertation chapter in progress. Refreshments will be provided. Richard’s paper is available for download here. Please email one of […]

Please join us on Friday, January 29 at 10:30 AM in Cobb 311 as we welcome Jordan Schonig, Ph.D. candidate in Cinema and Media Studies; he will discuss “Seeing Aspects of the Moving Camera: Lateral Movement, Twofoldness, and Framed Motion,” a dissertation chapter in progress. Refreshments will be provided. Jordan’s paper is available for download here. Please email one […]

Please join us for the first Mass Culture Workshop of Winter 2016 on Friday, January 22 at 10:30 AM in Cobb 311. We will be welcoming Mary Adekoya, Ph.D. candidate in Cinema and Media Studies; she will discuss “Between Excess and Poverty: The Political Implications of Visual Gaze and Narrative Pleasure in Nollywood Cinema,” a dissertation chapter in progress. Refreshments […]