5C Media and Film Undergraduate Conference
The 5C Film and Media Studies Undergraduate Conference is designed to build community among students studying film and media on each of the five campuses, to give our most engaged students an opportunity to hone their presentation skills, and to allow them to share insights from their work with a wider audience.
Theory & Practice of the Video-Essay
The videographic essay is a still-emerging but swiftly evolving form. Film scholars working in this Barthesian “third form” of critical scholarship employ the expressive power of audiovisual media for their engagements with film and film theory.
80 years of Xanadu: The Legacies of Citizen Kane
Orson Welles’ first motion picture, Citizen Kane, has marked the history of film, becoming a landmark movie for generations of filmmakers and cinephiles for eight decades. The narrative deployments and technical innovations, among other celebrated achievements of a film that has long been known as the “greatest film ever made,” make it a fascinating object of analysis and revisitation.