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Professor Bradley’s New Book, Anteaesthetics, will be Published in October 2023
May 22, 2023
Anteaesthetics:Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form, a new book by Rizvana Bradley will be published by Stanford University Press this October. In Anteaesthetics, Rizvana Bradley begins from the proposition that blackness cannot be represented in modernity's aesthetic regime, but... More
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Welcoming the Fall 2023 Ph.D. Cohort
May 8, 2023
Congratulations to our newest cohort of Film & Media Ph.D. students starting this fall! We are delighted to welcome you to our active and vibrant intellectual community at Cal! Jazlyn Andrews completed her undergraduate degree at Colorado College... More
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SURF winner Penelope Martindale
Apr 13, 2023
Film & Media's very own Penelope Martindale won the coveted $5,000 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship L&S this year. Penelope will be theorizing women in baseball movies, as well as making her own film on the subject. Big high... More
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“The Variations of Nicolás Pereda”
Apr 12, 2023
From April 11-18, the Parisian museum, Jeu de Paume, has organized a retrospective and celebration of the work of the Film and Media professor, Nico Pereda. “¿Tú también eres actor? (Are you also an actor?), Gabino asks Paco when they meet for the... More
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Jennifer Blaylock (2019) receives The Katherine Singer Kovács Award
Feb 22, 2023
Film and Media PhD alum, Jennifer Blaylock, received the The Katherine Singer Kovács Essay Award for 'Who wants a BlackBerry these days?' Honoring the memory of USC professor Katherine Singer Kovács, this award is given to an outstanding... More
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Film & Media Commencement Updates
Dec 19, 2022
The Film & Media Commencement Ceremony Tuesday, May 16 at 2pm Zellerbach Auditorium Tickets will go on sale on April 25 at 12pm. Due to logistics, each ticket is now $5. (Graduates do not need to purchase tickets... More
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Professor Mark Sandberg interviews Carol Clover, Professor Emerita of Rhetoric, Comparative Literature, Film, and Scandinavian
Nov 28, 2022
In order to preserve the history and accomplishments of its distinguished faculty, the University of California Berkeley Emeriti Association (UCBEA) has begun making video recordings of interviews with individual emeriti. This video-making project, called the Legacy Project, aims... More
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Professor Gaboury wins the Computer History Museum Prize
Nov 17, 2022
Congratulations to Professor Jacob Gaboury! He won the 2022 Computer History Museum Prize for his book, Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics. The Computer History Museum Prize is awarded to the author of an outstanding book in... More
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Budhaditya Chattopadhyay Discussion & Performance, The Sonic Media Environment: Contemporary Film Sound Research
Apr 25, 2022
The Sonic Media Environment: Contemporary Film Sound Research Budhaditya Chattopadhyay discussion & performance Thursday May 5, 2-4pm in Dwinelle 142. In person and open to the public. Also hybrid on-line; for Zoom link please email Ernst Karel at ekarel@berkeley.edu... More
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Toxic Masculinity, Spectral Homosexuality by Damon Young
Mar 31, 2022
Read Professor Damon Young's piece on Power of the Dog and the Western in Public Books. (Read an excerpt below.) Toxic Masculinity, Spectral Homosexuality Of the film genres that shaped Hollywood during its classical period from the 1930s through... More
