CIMS relevant news.
Yiru Pan Accepted to Masters Program
Cinema & Media Studies senior, Yiru Pan, was recently accepted into the BU Masters in Television program within the College of Communication. Growing up, Yiru loved science fiction films and making small projects with her friends in high school and middle school. This interest lead her to study film at BU. While taking classes like […]
Jennifer Cazenave Receives Fellowship
Prof. Jennifer Cazenave has been awarded a 2025-2026 fellowship from the Humanities Institute at the University of Connecticut. She will be spending next academic year at the Institute where she will write the remaining two chapters of her new book, Lessons in Seeing: Disability in the Media Archive (under contract with Columbia University Press).
CIMS 10 Year Anniversary Event
Thank you to everyone who joined our 10 year anniversary celebration last week! We couldn’t be more proud of what we’ve accomplished, together, as a program the past 10 years. “CIMS will teach you what a film is. What makes them interesting, timeless, beautiful, heartbreaking and funny… It will show you that film is the […]
CIMS Students’ Trip to The Coolidge Corner Theater
On Tuesday, Students in Prof. Jennifer Cazeanve’s Spring 2025 Auteur Filmmaking class took a field trip to the Coolidge this week for a private screening and discussion of “Casa Susanna”. It’s an opportunity to get off campus and into the context of the greater Boston film community! In class, the students are working on […]
10 Year Anniversary Celebration Honored Guest: Sarah Colt
The CIMS program is pleased to announce that award-winning filmmaker, Sarah Colt, will attend the 10 year Anniversary celebration on March 19th as an honored guest. She will make a keynote address on the importance of film education to prepare a new generation of filmmakers, scholars, and artists. Ms. Colt started her career as […]
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 […]