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Nontheatrical Books
Organizer: Nontheatrical Film and Media SIG
Date & Time: Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024, 16:00-17:30 (Central European Time)
Abstract: 2023 marked the year of the publication of two long-awaited books that will shape the field of nontheatrical film and media. This book event invites their authors and editors to share their research and insights with us. Gregory Waller will discuss his Beyond the Movie Theater. His monograph mobilizes previously understudied historical materials to construct a history of nontheatrical film in the United States during the early 20th century. Florian Hoof will discuss the long-awaited sequel to Films that Work, Films that Work Harder. In the new volume, Hoof and his colleagues curate case studies ranging from Europe, Asia, Australia and North America to demonstrate how the moving image can be a factor in economic development.
Texts
Gregory A. Waller, Beyond the Movie Theater: Sites, Sponsors, Uses, Audiences, University of California Press 2023.
Vinzenz Hediger, Florian Hoof, and Yvonne Zimmermann, ed., Films That Work Harder: The Circulation of Industrial Film, Amsterdam University Press 2023.
Participants
- Greg Waller (Indiana University Bloomington, Invited Speaker)
- Florian Hoof (Goethe University Frankfurt, Invited Speaker)
- Sophia Gräfe (Humboldt-University Berlin, Co-Chair Nontheatrical Film and Media SIG)
- Dimitrios Latsis (The University of Alabama, Co-Chair Nontheatrical Film and Media SIG)
- I-Lin Liu (Indiana University Bloomington, Grad Rep Nontheatrical Film and Media SIG)
Gregory A. Waller is Provost Professor in Cinema and Media Studies in the Media School at Indiana University at Bloomington. He has been editor of Film History: An International Journal since 2013, serves as a co-director of the Century of 16mm project, and is the author of Main Street Amusements: Film and Commercial Entertainment in a Southern City, 1895-1930 among other publications on the history of film exhibition and non-theatrical cinema. His most recent monograph is Beyond the Movie Theater: Sites, Sponsors, Uses, Audiences (University of California Press 2023), which is available through open access (
https://luminosoa.org/site/books/m/10.1525/luminos.149/)
Florian Hoof is Associate Lecturer in Film and Media Studies and Research Associate in the research initiative ConTrust, part of the Cluster of Excellence Normative Orders, both at the Goethe University Frankfurt. His research interests include critical theory, non-theatrical cinema, history of science, media economics, digital infrastructures, distribution and media industry studies. He is the author of Angels of Efficiency. A Media History of Consulting (Oxford University Press 2020), Alternative Sports and Media Distribution. Infrastructures, Logistics, and the Circulation of Moving Images (Palgrave Macmillian 2024, forthcoming), and co-editor of Films that Work Harder. The Circulation of Industrial Cinema (Amsterdam University Press 2023).
Global Solidarity in Action
Date & Time: Nov 14, 2023 12:00-2:00 PM EST (9:00-11:00 AM PST)
Organizers: Middle East Caucus, Precarious Labor Organization, and Graduate Student Association.
"Global Solidarity in Action" is the inaugural event of the Global Solidarity Series, an SCMS initiative to develop practices of solidarity and networks of support for global and precarious media scholars and their work. "Global Solidarity in Action" lays the groundwork for future discussions within the series, including the seminar "Navigating the Secret Syllabi," which will take place during the SCMS Virtual Symposium Dec. 1 through Dec. 2, and the Town Hall event "Global Solidarity: Across Regions, Social Identities, and Academic Ranks," which will take place during the 2024 SCMS Conference in Boston.
Moving across Palestine, Haiti, Kashmere, and Europe, "Global Solidarity in Action" positions Palestine as a central node through which to consider the role of global solidarity in numerous struggles involving contemporary media scholars and practitioners. Situating global solidarity as praxis, the event offers a much-needed intervention into film and media studies by bridging theoretical concerns with various modes of praxis, while connecting multiple struggles across different geopolitical contexts. Taking a comparative, relational, and critical transnational approach, the four invited speakers will draw from intersecting fields of ethnic studies, critical theory, and cultural studies to illuminate connections between the history and present-day reality of the Palestine liberation struggle, transnational solidarity movement-building, decolonial historiographies of antisemitism, and "brutal solidarity" among far-right nation-states.
Following the four presentations, the speakers will answer questions from the audience.
Speakers: Maha Nassar, Mamyrah Dougé-Prosper, Huma Dar, Terri Ginsberg
Dr. Maha Nassar is an associate professor in the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Arizona, where she specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of Palestine and the modern Arab world. Her award-winning book, Brothers Apart: Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab World (Stanford University Press, 2017), examines how Palestinian intellectuals inside the Green Line connected to global decolonization movements through literary and journalistic writings. Her scholarly articles have appeared in the Journal of Palestine Studies, Arab Studies Journal, and elsewhere. A 2018 Public Voices Fellow with the OpEd Project, Dr. Nassar's analysis pieces have appeared widely, including in The Washington Post, The Conversation, and +972 Magazine. As a 2022 non-resident fellow at the Foundation for Middle East Peace, she joined FMEP in developing public programming for their Occupied Thoughts podcast. Dr. Nassar's current book project examines the global history of Palestine's people.
Mamyrah Dougé-Prosper is an assistant professor of Global and International Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She specializes in research on social movements in the Caribbean and Latin America – particularly Black and Haitian social movements. Prosper is currently working on a manuscript entitled "Development Contested in Occupied Haiti: Social Movements and the Gangster State". She is also the International Coordinator for the Pan-African Solidarity Network with Community Movement Builders in the United States. And Prosper is the co-host of the WBAI Pacifica New York show "Haiti: Our Revolution Continues."
Huma Dar is an Adjunct Professor in the Critical Studies Program at California College of the Art. Dar's work is focused on the intersections of race, religion, class, caste, gender, sexuality, national, colonial, and anticolonial politics of South Asia and South Asian diasporas, centered on intellectual and political activism for social justice, decolonization, and annihilation of caste. Dar writes and teaches about literature and cinema from South Asia and the Global South; critical theories of caste, race, gender, and sexuality; post-colonialism, decolonialism, and visuality; transnational feminisms and cultural studies; Kashmiri Freedom Movement; and Islamophobia. Dar is a published poet and is a feature writer at Pulse Media, a collaborative political/activist/academic weblog.
Terri Ginsberg is an internationally recognized scholar of Arab and Palestinian cinema. She has taught cinema and media studies at colleges and universities in North America and the Middle East, most recently at The American University in Cairo, Concordia University in Montreal, and the City University of New York. She is currently Director of Research and Academic Affairs at the International Association of Middle Eastern Studies (IAMES). She has helped foster Arab film and media studies through active involvement in numerous scholarly academic organizations such as SCMS, NECS, IAMES, and MEMIC. Her most recent book publications are Films of Arab Loutfi and Heiny Srour (2021), Cinema of the Arab World (co-ed., 2020), Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema (multi-authored, 2020), and Visualizing the Palestinian Struggle (2016). Her NYU doctoral dissertation was published in 2007 as Holocaust Film: The Political Aesthetics of Ideology. Her co-edited collection on international film education is forthcoming in 2024.
The Green Frontier: Performing Identity within Media Technology
Organizer:
Van Tran Nguyen
Abstract: The Green Frontier is a virtual workshop and presentation that will focus on the uses of green screen in Van Tran Nguyen's (artist-scholar) filmmaking and creative research. Chroma keying (or green screen processing) is by no means a contemporary innovative technology, by who and how it is wielded makes it an emergent and prescient diasporic technology. The green transmutational material performatively enacts the diasporic experience, it runs parallel to or instantiates a diasporic reality. Tran Nguyen brings forth a methodology that looks at the green screen as an analytic way to understanding the diasporic experience, through the case study of ERIE COUNTY SMILE (2021) produced entirely with green screen processes and exhibits an experimental narrative of her own diasporic upbringing.In developing this work, Tran Nguyen has conducted workshops with the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) and The African American Digital and Experimental Humanities (AADHum). The session includes a short workshop and presentation with Q&A and runs approximately 60 - 75 minutes in length. This session will be offered using the Zoom platform.
Speakers:Van Tran Nguyen
(she/her) is a visual artist, filmmaker, and scholar. She was born in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Her first short film, ERIE COUNTY SMILE released in 2021 and is available for public access via the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). Her first full-length feature film, The Motherload, will be released in the winter of 2023. She is the Maya Brin Institute for New Performance and Technology Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Tran Nguyen teaches courses in digital filmmaking, new media, the Asian American diaspora, and its many representations. Her scholarship emphasizes the literature, performance, and lived experience of diasporic Vietnamese people in the United States.
E. M. Alexander
is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Digital Humanities & Digital Studies at African American Experimental & Digital Humanities (AADHum), a research lab in the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland, College Park. They have written, designed, and built content for a variety of industry and scholarly projects, but their main focus is work that engages the public. Learn more at emaphd.com.
Camera to Classroom: a film's journey to educational access for teaching and research
Curated by Nancy Friedland, Chair, Media Archives Committee
Camera to Classroom is a multi-session series that will focus on the many aspects of educational access to moving images. How does a film or television program become available for research and classroom use? What are the limits of archival and commercially distributed works for educational access? The series will include discussions of film and television archives, copyright, time-based media, distribution and exhibition, and streaming video.
The sessions include multiple presentations with Q&A and run approximately 60 - 75 minutes in length. All sessions will be offered using the Zoom platform.
Session Title: FILM ARCHIVES
Date: January 20 at 1pm EST
Presenters: - Dr. Jan-Christopher Horak, Professor, UCLA School of Theatre, Film & TV and Principal, JCH Archival Consulting
- David Pierce, Assistant Chief and Chief Operations Officer, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Packard Campus, Library of Congress
- Moderator, Elizabeth Castaldo Lundén, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, Linnaeus University
Session Title: TELEVISION ARCHIVES
Date: February 3 at 1pm EST
Presenters: - Ruta Abolins, Director, Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection, University of Georgia Libraries
- Jenni Matz, Director, The Television Academy Foundation Interviews
- Moderator, Sueyoung Park-Primiano, Assistant Professor of English and Film Studies, Kennesaw State University
Session Title: COPYRIGHT AND DIGITIZATION OF AUDIO AND MOVING IMAGE ARCHIVES PROJECT
Date: February 10 at 1pm EST
Presenters: - Kyle K. Courtney, Copyright Advisor, Harvard University
- Emily Holmes, Director of Preservation, Columbia University
- Jonah Volk, Digitization and Preservation Projects Manager, Columbia University
- Moderator, Susan Ohmer, The William T. and Helen Kuhn Carey, Professor of Modern Communication (Emerita), University of Notre Dame
Session Title: EXHIBITION AND DISTRIBUTION
Date: March 3 at 1pm EST
Presenters: - Ryan Krivoshey, President, Grasshopper Film, President, Projectr
- Estelle Grosso, V.P., Educational and Non-Theatrical Sales, Kino Lorber, Inc.
- Ben Crossley-Marra, Janus Films, Theatrical and Non-Theatrical Distribution
- Moderator, Ross Melnick, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Title: STREAMING VIDEO AND EDUCATIONAL LICENSING
Date: March 10 at 1pm EST
Presenters: - Brian Edwards, Director of Educational Streaming, Swank Digital Campus
- Nancy E. Friedland, Librarian for Film Studies & Performing Arts, Columbia University
- Moderator, Javier Ramirez, Puente Program Coordinator English/Humanities Division, Lee College
AED Presents: Coalitional Antiracism & SCMS
Date: September 4, 2020 Time: 11 AM PT Access the recording
here This roundtable discussion, presented by the Antiracism, Equity and Diversity Committee, will explore how SCMS has responded to issues of race in the past and how both SCMS and JCMS are committed to enacting antiracist policies and fostering greater diversity and equity within the society.
Participants: Miriam J. Petty, Founder and Co-Chair, AED
Desiree Garcia, Co-Chair, AED
Joshua Nelson, Facilitator, Indigenous Scholar Initiative
Priscilla Peña Ovalle, President-Elect and Membership Survey Designer
Samantha Sheppard, JCMS Co-Editor of Outreach and Equity
TreaAndrea Russworm, JCMS Co-Editor of Outreach and Equity
Bambi Haggins, Moderator
There will be ample time for a free exchange of ideas throughout the event and/or the open discussion at after the last presentation.
Off the Tenure Track: Exploring Alt-Ac University Careers
Date: August 13, 2020 Time: 2:00-3:00pm CT Access the meeting recording
here.
This Zoom workshop, hosted by the GSO and the Professional Development Committee, will focus on preparing for university careers off the tenure track. Participants will reflect on their own experiences from when they entered the job market through to their current position. They will discuss issues such as how to find these kinds of positions, how to tailor job materials and translate academic skills to other markets, and the experience of transitioning out of graduate school. We will also discuss how SCMS can foster an academic community inclusive of members off the tenure track. There will be time for questions during the workshop session, but please feel free to send questions ahead of time to
cara.dickason@u.northwestern.edu.
Participants: Catherine Clepper, Assistant Professor of Practice in the P3 Collaboratory for Pedagogy, Rutgers University
Regina Longo, Media Archivist in the Modern Culture and Media department at Brown University
Maureen Ryan, Deputy Director of the Center for 21st Century Studies at UW-Milwaukee
Janani Subramanian, Public Programs Manager at the Hammer Museum, UCLA
See full description and participant bios here.
Short Attention Span Criticism
Edited by
Cara Dickason,
Rebecca M. Gordon, and
Pamela Robertson Wojcik Editors' Introduction Time/Sound/Aesthetics
- Fábio Andrade and
Juliano Gomes, "
The Dreamed Republic: 'Your Brazil has Ended, and Mine Never Existed:' A Conversation about Grace Passô's Quarantine Short Film, República (2020)"
- Tian Leng , "
The Routine"
- Jacqueline Patz Di Piero, "
Nowhere Else to Be: Time, Space, and the Fiction of Synchronicity"
- Christina G. Petersen , "
Viral Aesthetics: Before & After COVID-19 "
Death
- Madison Brown, "
I Livestreamed My Grandfather's Funeral"
- Sean Purcell, "
Pandemic Revenants: Seeing the Dead in the Long First Wave "
History, Archives, and the Rhetoric of Crisis
- Cat Mahoney, "
'We'll Meet Again': Mobilising 'Memories' of the Second World War During the UK Coronavirus Lockdown"
- Jessica Leonora Whitehead, "
Flu Ban: Movie-Going and Celebrity Culture during the Spanish Flu Epidemic of 1918"
Labor
- Mihaela Mihailova, "
Business as Usual: The Pandemic Myth of Undisrupted Animation Production"
- Amy Monaghan, "
Electric Boogaloo"
Loving, Hating, and Uncertain Waiting Under Lockdown
- Sarah Choi, "
Too Hot for a Pandemic"
- Hannah Goodwin, "
Silence in the Media Storm of Apocalypse"
- Shana Macdonald, "
Cinema Snacks: Movie Memes as Pandemic Catharsis"
- Mary Harrod,
Suzanne Leonard and
Diane Negra, "
Romance in the Time of Coronavirus"
- Lynn Spigel, "
Homebody TV: Tele-hospitality in a Pandemic "
Urban Spaces
- Josh Synenko, "
COVID-19 and the Politics of Locations"
- Meredith Ward, "
Listening to the Sounds of COVID"
Inequity
- Crystal Camargo, "
Translating Pandemic, Interpreting (Mis)Trust: The Role of a Bilingual News Anchor on U.S. Spanish-Language Television"
- Suzanne Enzerink, "
Flickers"
- Hamidreza Nassiri, "
Tales from Disaster Capitalism: The Capitalist Transformation of Education by Exploiting the Pandemic Crisis "
Technology in the Age of Covid-19
- Logan Brown, "
Tom Nook Meets Microsoft Bob: Space, Sociality, and Digital Media in Good Times and Bad"
- Frank Mondelli, "
Access, Media, and Equity in a (Post-)COVID World"
- Adam Sulzdorf-Liszkiewicz , "
The Paradox of the Virtual Pro-Am: Professional Sports During the Pandemic"
Webinar: Roundtable and Discussion on Teaching Cinema and Media Studies Online
This roundtable and discussion, led by Jonathan Cohn and featuring Andrea Wood, Maya Montañez Smukler, Sean Gouglas, and Patricia Aufderheide discusses various techniques for translating courses to teach ethically and equitably online without a ton of added work, new free tools for fostering discussion and critique, advice for teaching video games and other interactive media online, using Fair Use and avoiding copyright issues, and how to manage our time and student expectations. The webinar was held on June 16 via Zoom and recorded.
To access the recording of the webinar, please
click here. Other resources related to the discussion can be found
here.
Note: Your participation would be greatly appreciated, some of those documents would serve as a platform to share ideas for lesson plans, assignments, tech, etc... if you have suggestions, please email the roundtable's organizer, Jonathan Cohn,
here.
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