March 11, 2024 | Kelly Youngblood Derek Long, assistant professor of media and cinema studies, sheds light on a rarely covered piece of Hollywood history in his first book, Playing the Percentages: How Film Distribution Made the Hollywood Studio System. Praised as “invaluable to media industry scholars of the past and present,” the book is a comprehensive history of […]
September 8, 2023 “I on the Media” is a series from the University of Illinois College of Media in which faculty, staff, and students at the college address current issues and research. It began in 2020 to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on media-related issues. Hear from our experts In this Q&A, Professor Brant Houston, Knight Chair of Investigative […]
April 11, 2023 | Kelly Youngblood Update 5/10/2023: The MACS Student Showcase program is now available to watch online: The Department of Media & Cinema Studies presents the inaugural MACS Student Showcase, featuring faculty-curated work created by students in MACS classes throughout the academic year. The event, which celebrates student media production, will be held on […]
May 17, 2022 Students in MACS 150: Introduction to Digital Media Production, taught by Derek Long, assistant professor of media and cinema studies, celebrated their final work of the spring semester at an in-class awards ceremony called the “CORNIs,” where students received Camera Operators’ Registry of Note at Illinois certificates and small trophies, and watched the winning films. […]
The season of blockbusters is upon us, but theaters have been empty for months—and it’s unclear what they’ll show, or who will come, when they reopen. Derek Long focuses on the history of the film industry, in particular film distribution, as an assistant professor of media and cinema studies at Illinois. He spoke with News Bureau social sciences editor Craig […]
In Fall 2019, students in MACS 496: Advanced Media Practicum, taught by Assistant Professor Derek Long in collaboration with Illinois Public Media, worked in teams to create three 10-minute opinionated documentaries (op-docs), which you can watch below. The students created a production collective for these projects, called Illinois Student Lens. More op-docs will be created in Spring […]