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Jenny Oyallon-Koloski, assistant professor in the Department of Media & Cinema Studies, was introduced to the power and influence of media during an introductory film course in college. She recalled watching The Last Laugh, a 1924 film directed by F.W. Murnau, and being “emotionally wrecked”… Read More
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Adia Ivey (BS ’19, media and cinema studies) has spent her time since graduation developing MANIFOLD, an experimental anthology docuseries that tells the underrepresented stories of “everyday people we meet in our lives but haven’t had the chance to get to know better” from the Black LGBTQIA+… Read More
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Angela Aguayo, a new associate professor in the Department of Media & Cinema Studies, begins her work by looking for answers to two questions: Which problems are not being solved right now, and what are the world’s most pressing social issues? Many of her projects, including the oral history… Read More
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The NFL team in the nation’s capital will no longer be the Redskins. The name is being retired. Jay Rosenstein, a Center for Advanced Study professor of media and cinema studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, directed the 1997 documentary In Whose Honor? about the use of… Read More
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In the wake of the murders most recently of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and Tony McDade, and given the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities of color and Indigenous communities, MACS stands united with Black Lives Matter against structural and institutional racism… Read More
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Distributors hold much of the power in the film industry, and will have a major role in what happens in the shadow of COVID-19, says Derek Long, assistant professor of media and cinema studies who focuses on the film distribution system in his research. The virus has added to longstanding trends… Read More
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Amanda Ciafone, assistant professor in the Department of Media & Cinema Studies, was selected as a 2020-2021 University of Illinois Center for Advanced Study Fellow.
One of the primary missions of CAS is to identify the very best scholars at Illinois. CAS… Read More
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Anita Say Chan, associate professor in the Department of Media & Cinema Studies and at the iSchool, is the recipient of a Fulbright Specialist grant, effective January 2020 through January 2023. A program of the U.S. Department of State, the Fulbright Specialist Program creates opportunities… Read More
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Stephen Feder (BS '02, media studies) has been named a producer at T-Street, a new independent studio led by filmmaker Rian Johnson and producer Ram Bergman, who recently launched Knives Out.
According to T-Street, Feder and two other producers, Kiri Hart and Ben LeClair, will "spearhead films of… Read More
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Assistant Professor Derek Long, who teaches a class on world cinema and another on media production, is currently working on a book about the development of film distribution in the 1910s-’20s.
Distribution is the “least studied, least understood aspect of the film industry, certainly of… Read More
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Anita Say Chan, associate professor of media and cinema studies, has been selected as a 2019-2020 Data & Society Faculty Fellow. Data & Society is a research institute focused on the social and cultural issues arising from automation and data-centric technology. Its programs draw together… Read More
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Amanda Ciafone, assistant professor of media and cinema studies at Illinois, describes herself as a cultural historian of capitalism. She is the author of the book “Counter-Cola: A Multinational History of the Global Corporation.” (Photo by L. Brian Stauffer.)
The Coke you drink with your… Read More
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Congratulations to Julie Turnock, associate professor of media and cinema studies, for being awarded a Criticism & Interpretive Theory Senior Research Fellowship by the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, for 2019-2021.
Turnock will be working on a book-length project titled The… Read More
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Professor Jay Rosenstein with Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Dr. Danita M. B. Young at the Diversity and Social Justice Education Awards ceremony on April 16, 2019. (Photo by Madeline Wilson.)
“There’s a little bit of synchronicity going on,” said Professor Jay Rosenstein, at the… Read More
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Congratulations to Derek Long and Jenny Oyallon-Koloski, both assistant professors of media and cinema studies, for making the list of "best video essays of 2018" released by British Film Institute's Sight and Sound magazine. The roundup features videographic scholars and practitioners’ picks for… Read More
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Jay Rosenstein, professor of media and cinema studies, was invited to be a panelist at the screening of More Than a Word, which analyzes the Washington football team name. The event was hosted by Illinois State University on Saturday, March 2, at Normal Theater.
"Using interviews from both those… Read More
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The Women & Gender in Global Perspectives Program is sponsoring a talk with Professor Angharad Valdivia, WGGP faculty affiliate, research professor at the Institute of Communications Research, and professor of media and cinema studies.
Valdivia will present “Girls Hold Up Half the Sky:… Read More
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We present the College of Media's year-end video, created by students in our media and cinema studies class "Media Production I," taught by Victor Font.
To create this video, we enlisted the help of about 300 students, faculty, staff, and friends to join us for #MediaOnTheQuad as extras in the… Read More
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Passes for the 21st annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival, or “Ebertfest,” will go on sale Nov. 1.
The festival schedule is getting a revamp in 2019, when it will run four days instead of five. The April 10-13 festival will open Wednesday evening and close Saturday evening instead… Read More
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By Molly Leahy, Communications and Marketing InternIn honor of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic and University of Illinois journalism graduate Roger Ebert, three undergraduate students have been named as this year’s Roger Ebert Fellows. In addition to a stipend, the fellows will be… Read More