Film Studies News & Events

Akira Mizuta Lippit, “Reflections on Spectral Life” 10/01/2009 - 5:00pm, Van Pelt Film Room, 410 Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania

Posted September 25, 2009

The Philadelphia Cinema and Media Seminar announces its first event for the 2009/10 academic year, presented in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania’s Cinema Studies Program:
Akira Mizuta Lippit
Professor of Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages and Cultures, and Cinema Television at the University of Southern California
“Reflections on Spectral Life”
10/01/2009 - 5:00pm
Location: Van Pelt Film Room, 410 [...]


Film Studies Internship opportunity

Posted September 8, 2009

The facility that is responsible for training the Philadelphia 76ers, SJU Hawks, and Jameer Nelson of the Orlando Magic has an internship opportunity for any interested Bryn Mawr Film Studies students. We are in need of a student to film and produce a DVD for a Vertical Jump training camp that we are holding at [...]


Sarah Schenck Screening of SLIPPERY SLOPE followed by director Q&A

Posted September 4, 2009

Sarah Schenck
Screening of SLIPPERY SLOPE followed by director Q&A
Thursday 9/24, 7:30pm, Carpenter 21
Presented by the Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center
In the comedy Slippery Slope, a fierce young feminist filmmaker desperate for cash to finish her documentary secretly takes a job directing a porn film after her other moneymaking schemes don’t pan out.  She brings her feminist [...]