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 […]

Please join us for the second Mass Culture Workshop of the 2015-2016 academic year on Friday, October 16 at 10:30 AM in Cobb 311. We will be welcoming Richard Davis, Ph.D. candidate in Cinema and Media Studies and East Asian Languages and Civilizations; he will discuss “Speed Jidai and the Modern Musical,” a chapter in progress […]

Please join us for the first Mass Culture Workshop of the 2015-2016 academic year on Friday, October 9 at 10:30 AM in Cobb 311. We will be welcoming Mikki Kressbach, Ph.D. candidate in Cinema and Media Studies; she will discuss “Immutable Microbes,” an article in progress. Refreshments will be provided. Mikki’s paper is available for […]