Moving Image, Media & Sound

Providing graduate students the analytical tools and critical skills to understand the role of moving images in global mass communication, entertainment, and the articulation of knowledge and belief systems.

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Photos of Spanish Directors Óscar Aibar and Xavier Artigas

The Iberian Studies Initiative presents four Spanish films and Q&As with the directors

Films include Platillos volantes and El sustituto by director Óscar Aibar and Idrissa: Crónica de una muerte cualquiera and Tarajal: Desmontando la impunidad en la frontera…

Cinema's First Nasty Women: Prof. Maggie Hennefeld releases new DVD/Blu-ray collection

Read the New York Times review that calls this set of 20th-century short films featuring feminist protest and slapstick rebellion "a triumph of scholarship."

Graduate Student Research Projects: Emma Jasnoch

Grad Student Emma Jasnoch discusses her fellowship and research

Cancelling COPS

Professor and chair of cultural studies and comparative literature and professor of communication studies Laurie Ouellette places the show COPS within a historical and…

Cinema’s First Epidemic: From Contagious Twitching to Convulsive Laughter

There was no funnier sight gag in early cinema than the catastrophe of epidemic contagion. Habitual tics such as yawning, laughing, sneezing, hiccupping, itching, coughing…