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 […]

Please join us for the final Mass Culture Workshop of Fall 2015 on Friday, December 4 at 10:30 AM in Cobb 311. We will be welcoming Hannah Frank, Ph.D. candidate in Cinema and Media Studies; she will discuss “The Hitherto Unknown: Towards an Epistemology of Synthetic Sound,” a journal article in progress. Refreshments will be provided. Hannah’s paper […]

The Mass Culture Workshop and the Film Studies Center at the University of Chicago invite you to two events featuring Joshua Oppenheimer, Macarthur “Genius Grant” recipient and director of The Act of Killing (2012), named Film of the Year in 2013 by The Guardian and Sight and Sound. A screening of The Look of Silence, […]

Interview with Oppenheimer – Filmmaker Magazine Perpetrators’ Testimony and the Restoration of Humanity – S21, Rithy Panh Show of Force – A Cinema-séance of Power and Violence in Sumatra’s Planation Belt

Please join us for a joint session of Mass Culture Workshop and the workshop for Art and Politics of East Asia on Friday, November 6 at 10:30 AM in Cobb 311. We will be welcoming Ramona Curry, Associate Professor of English, Media and Cinema Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, and Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies at […]

Please join us for a joint session of Mass Culture Workshop and the workshop for Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia on Friday, October 23 at 10:30 AM in Cochrane-Woods Art Center 156 (please note different location from previous Mass Culture Workshops!). We will be welcoming Pao-Chen Tang, Ph.D. student in Cinema and Media Studies; he will […]