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Rizvana Bradley’s Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form (Stanford University Press, 2023) reviewed in the Summer 2024 issue of Film Quarterly.

Heartfelt congratulations to the distinguished individuals comprising our latest cohort of Film & Media Ph.D. students embarking on their academic journey this upcoming fall! We are thrilled to embrace your unique perspectives, talents, and aspirations, confident that your contributions will enrich and invigorate our dynamic and lively community at Cal. Here’s to a fulfilling and inspiring tenure ahead, filled with boundless opportunities for growth, exploration, and academic excellence!

The Eisner Prize is the highest award for creativity given on the UC Berkeley campus. Presented at BAMPFA since 1991, this screening offers the local community, as well as family and friends, an opportunity to see a wide range of work made by UC Berkeley students—from narratives and documentaries to experimental and essay films—and to talk with the makers, which includes many Film & Media students!

The following course may be of interest to Film graduate students:

EA Lang 204: Topics in East Asian Studies: “Environmental Media/Art in the Anthropocene”

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ART 171: Video Projects

CHICANO 135B: Latino Narrative Film Since 1990

COMLIT 190-003: Senior Seminar in Comparative Literature - Realism and Media

Enrollment is now open for Summer Sessions. Film & Media courses are available during Session A (May 20 – June 28) and Session D (July 1-August 9).

Pre-approved extra-departmental Film & media electives are also available during Summer Sessions.

ETHSTD 122AC –Ethnicity and Race in Contemporary American Films

CHICANO 135C– Latino Documentary Films

MEDIAST 138 –Ethnographic Film and Documentary Form: History, Ethics and Aesthetics of Reality Based Media

Congratulations to Rizvana Bradley on having her book, Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form (Stanford University Press, 2023), selected by Frieze Editor Vanessa Peterson as one of her top books of 2023!

Damon Young, Associate Professor in French and Film and Media Studies, was recently interviewed by UC Berkeley Arts & Humanities writer-in-residence Lucille Lorenz for her weekly column "What is Humanities Research?"  In the interview, Damon discusses the discipline of Film & Media Studies and why students should explore it as well working with AI as an object of critical analysis. 

Congratulations to Mira Kopell on the publication of her new book with Routledge UP, The Screenwriter’s Workshop: Creative Exploration Through Meaningful Critique. Now it won’t just be the students in Mira’s screenwriting classes who will benefit from the very successful workshop method Mira has developed in her teaching over the years!

2024 Film & Media Commencement Ceremony*

Wednesday, May 15, 2024
2PM | Zellerbach Auditorium

Tickets are now available here: https://secure-tickets.berkeley.edu/23688/23689

Basic Department Commencement FAQs for students* (more info to follow)

How long is the ceremony?
The ceremony starts promptly at 2pm and lasts approximately 2 hours.

ART 171 001 – STD 001 Video Projects (Priority enrollment for Art Practice majors and intended Art Practice majors)

ART 172 001 – STD 001 Advanced Digital Media: Computer Graphics Studio (Priority
enrollment for Art Practice majors and intended Art Practice majors)

Weihong Bao, associate professor of Film & Media and East Asian Languages & Cultures, has been appointed to the Pamela P. Fong and Family Distinguished Chair in China Studies. Bao's appointment marks the first time the chair has been awarded to a faculty member from a humanities discipline.

Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form, a new book by Rizvana Bradley will be published by Stanford University Press on October 24, 2023. 

Commencement FAQ for Students

The Film & Media department commencement ceremony:

Tuesday, May 16 | 2PM | Zellerbach Auditorium

The ceremony starts promptly at 2pm and lasts approximately 2 hours. The reception will follow on Lower Sproul courtyard. 

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!

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 fives to Penelope, who also came in 2nd Place with the Berkeley Women's Baseball Team at the All College Women's Baseball Tournament in LA last weekend.