Film Studies
- Fifty years after ‘Jaws’ made swimmers flee the ocean, èßäÉçÇø cinema scholar Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz explains how the 1975 summer hit endures as a classic.
- What happens when a freshly minted film studies graduate heads out into the world with no particular plan? How A&S alum Patrick Hoffman went from taxi driver to private investigator to successful author.
- Following a blockbuster opening weekend for ‘Captain America: Brave New World,’ èßäÉçÇøâ€™s Benjamin Robertson reflects on the appeal of superhero franchises and why they dominate studio release schedules.
- In honor of what would have been Al Capone’s 125th birthday, èßäÉçÇø 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 èßäÉçÇø, 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 èßäÉçÇø 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 èßäÉçÇø 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.
- èßäÉçÇø 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 èßäÉçÇø it may turn out to be a provocative theme for a historical documentary and multimedia oral-history archive.