USC School of Cinematic Arts hosted its first forum, “On the Fringe: Understanding Alternative and Subversive Media." The two-day event had numerous panels and included special presentations on Blaxploitation and the Academy Film Archive.
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In her fourth and final post on the 2015 New York Film Festival, Martha Nochimson talks about loss as an organizing principle for Michael Moore's documentary Where to Invade Next and Don Cheadle's biopic Miles Ahead.
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In part three of her series on the 2015 New York Film Festival, Martha Nochimson explores the thematic significance of connection in Jia Zhang-ke's Mountains May Depart, James D. Solomon's The Witness, and Stephane Brizé's Measure of a Man.
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Post by Martha P. Nochimson, Critic William Wordsworth made us believe in the ecstasy of the humble daffodil. Hannah Arendt isolated the potential for evil in the ordinary acts of people doing the business of their society. There is a long history that affirms that banality isn’t banal, for better and for worse. Three...
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In the first installment of a four-part series on the 2015 New York Film Festival, Martha P. Nochimson argues that Kyoshi Kurosawa's Journey to the Shore and Miguel Gomes' Arabian Nights trilogy dissolve the boundaries between life and death, then and now, and here and there.
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Melanie Kohnen reflects on what she learned at Middlebury College's videographic criticism workshop.
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Karen Petruska reflects on the importance of conference participation in the form of SIGs, committees, and public policy and promotion, all of which operate as the less visible yet vital backbone of SCMS.
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Collenn Glenn reports on the significance of specialized scholarly interest groups for academic organizations like the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), which held its annual conference in Montreal last week.
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Derek Long continues our series of SCMS 2015 conference reports with a summary and assessment of some of the digitally-oriented panels and presentations.
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Bill Kirkpatrick continues our week-long series of reports from the SCMS 2015 conference. He argues that radio studies within SCMS is coming into its own, and the Society is better for it.
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The Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference, held this March 25-29, was in many ways a media event. But what kind of media event was it, and what are the implications of the conference's more public presence?
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The New York TV Festival's "Digital Day" makes one wonder just how independent the digital TV landscape is.
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A report on the recent Craft of Criticism conference at University of Notre Dame.
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This year's Console-ing Passions conference emphasized the heritage and pedigree of the organization, as well as assessed the future contours of feminist media studies as a field.
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Melanie Kohnen reports to Antenna from her recent experience at Digital Day at the New York Television Festival, and discusses how the NYTF is shifting the focus of Digital Day away from second screen apps offering program-related content towards TV network-preferred Twitter.
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