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July 20, 2021
Amira Williams , ‘21  has received her first film credit for My Name is Pauli Murray (Besty West and Julie Cohen, 2021).  A look at the life and ideas of Pauli Murray, a non-binary Black lawyer, activist and poet who influenced both Ruth Bader...
July 20, 2021
Grace Bartlett wins the  Howard Lamar Prize 2021 for her film Bartlett’s Ocean View Farm. This is a feature-length documentary that portrays the Bartlett farm on Nantucket.
May 20, 2021
The Film and Media Studies Program would like to congratulate our faculty for their achievements. Francesco Casetti was appointed the Sterling Professor of Humanities and Film and Media Studies. Camille Thomasson (Lecturer, Film and Media Studies)...
February 8, 2021
CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue of Apparatus: Film, Media and Digital Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe Spring 2022 The Haunted Medium: Moving Images in the Russian Empire Editors: Oksana Chefranova, Natascha Drubek, and Rachel Morley This peer-...
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January 5, 2021
Camille Thomasson has been awarded the third Christopher Award of her writing career. The Christopher Award is presented to the producers, directors, and writers of books, films, and television specials that “affirm the highest values of the human...
Poster for the film Myth of a Colorblind France
September 9, 2020
Myth of a Colorblind France examines the ways that racism has plagued not only African Americans fleeing the United States, but Africans and people of color in France today. The film explores the lives and careers of renowned African Americans who...
Poster for the film Mr Soul!
September 9, 2020
From 1968 to 1973, the public television variety show SOUL!, guided by the enigmatic producer and host Ellis Haizlip, offered an unfiltered, uncompromising celebration of Black literature, poetry, music, and politics—voices that had few other...