Film Studies
- In honor of what would have been Al Capone’s 125th birthday, cinema researcher Tiel Lundy explains the enduring popularity of gangsters in film and the American imagination.
- John W. Comerford, who discovered the power of film at , arranges major gift to its Brakhage Center for Media Arts.
- The $188k grant will help develop curricula to give undergraduates hands-on experiences in film archiving and preservation.
- The Department of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts has made The Hollywood Reporter’s list of the top 25 film programsin the nation.
- At its regular meeting on Thursday at the campus, the University of Colorado Board of Regents voted to approve a new online Bachelor of Arts degree in interdisciplinary studies and two new departments for the Boulder campus.
- students create PSA to illuminate language that stigmatizes mental illness.
- The nuclear weapons buildup and the protests against it were for many simply the news of the day, but for two filmmakers from the it may turn out to be a provocative theme for a historical documentary and multimedia oral-history archive.
- Two-time Emmy-winning producer and alumna Alexis Martin Woodall (BFA-film production, BA-film studies ’02) says ’s film-studies program gave her the power to craft compelling stories on the editing floor.
- David Gatten became fascinated with cinematography after watching Star Wars at age 7, so it’s no surprise he became a filmmaker.
- With the recent gift of $2 million worth of professional preservation and archiving equipment from Wyndham Hannaway, a visual‐effects specialist, film studies will be adding film preservation and archiving to impressive list of offerings. Hannaway’s Boulder company, GWH&A, has been a leader in creating professional imaging for film and media services for more than 30 years.