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CIMS Pedagogy Workshop 2024
The Cinema & Media Studies program hosted a pedagogy workshop for faculty and graduate students across the University. Three separate panels of CIMS Faculty shared teaching methodologies, film assignments, and helpful resources for teaching film. Thank you to everyone who attended. We hope this is the first of many workshops and events to support faculty […]
Prof. Alex Denison in Film Quarterly
Prof. Alex Denison’s review on Michael Zryd’s new book Hollis Frampton: Navigating the Infinite Cinema was published in the Winter 2024 Issue of Film Quarterly. See below an extract from Prof. Denison’s review. “Hollis Frampton is one of the most recognizable names in American avant-garde cinema. Yet, despite the abundance of literature on Frampton’s life […]
Cinema & Media Studies Pedagogy Workshop 2024
The Cinema & Media Studies program will host a pedagogy workshop on December 12th from 9:30am – 12:30pm. The workshop aims to bring together faculty from across the University to share on-campus resources, as well as methodologies for teaching film in the classroom. There will be 3 panels that include presentations and discussions. You can […]
Prof. Jennifer Cazenave Signs Advanced Book Contract with Columbia University Press
Professor Jennifer Cazenave’s new book Lessons in Seeing: Disability in the Media Archive is now under advanced contract with Columbia University Press. The book moves from the 1930s to the 1980s, charting an entangled history of disability and media haunted by overlooked traumas of social exclusion and cultural erasure. One of the neglected archive the […]
Prof. Alex Denison Wins LEF New England Production Grant
Congratulations to Prof. Alex Denison for winning a production grant through LEF New England to support his upcoming project In The Keeping. LEF New England supports new film and video work through their Moving Image Fund (MIF), started in 2001. This year, the LEF Foundation has awarded 11 Moving Image Fund grants totaling $47,500 in support of feature-length […]
CIMS Students Studying Abroad: Summer 2024
Many of our students studied film and interned abroad this summer. Read about Wendy Morera’s experience in Sydney: This past summer, Wendy Morera traveled to Sydney, Australia with BU Study Abroad to take part in the internship and Sydney Film Festival track. The eight-week program began just as the 71st annual Sydney Film Festival […]
CIMS Administrator Co-organizes 2nd Annual Boston Dance Film Festival
CIMS Administrator, Kennedy Farrow, with a team of other dance and film creatives in the Boston Area is organizing the 2nd year of the annual Boston Dance Film Festival. This year there are films from Boston, New England, Italy, France, China, and more. The 1.5 hour screening at Apple Cinemas in Cambridge will be followed […]
CIMS Fall Film Series 2024
Check out our list of events on our calendar here
Yewon Yun’s Review of “Jurassic World Dominion”
Yewon Yun is a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences studying Computer Science with a minor in Cinema & Media Studies. Over the summer, she watched Jurassic World Dominion and despite her reluctance, overall had a pleasant experience watching the film. In this review she touches on elements that surprised her, and what she […]
Exploring Film and Life in Prague
Gerry Hwang is a senior double majoring in Cinema & Media Studies (CAS) and Advertising (COM). He spent the summer interning in Prague, creating social media content and exploring Europe. Below he describes his experience finding and participating in a local film festival that rounded out his experience abroad. _______________________ This blazing hot summer of […]