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Chris Goetz Reading from New Book at Prairie Lights

Friday, March 22, 2024

Join us on Thursday March 21st for a reading by Chris Goetz from his acclaimed new book The Counterfeit Coin: Videogames and Fantasies of Empowerment. Chris will be in conversation with Corey Creekmur.

Screenwriting program highlighted on Des Moines newscast to coincide with the Oscars

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Anna Morrison Reading from Her New Book

Monday, October 30, 2023

Midwest Graduate Student Symposium in Film Studies

Wednesday, February 28, 2024 - 4:28 PM

Upcoming Events

Journal Publishing Now: A Conversation with Jennifer Bean, Lauren Cramer, and Patricia White

Tuesday, April 23, 2024 12:30pm to 2:00pm

Virtual

Please join us for a panel conversation about academic publishing with three esteemed editors of interdisciplinary journals: Jennifer Bean (University of Washington; Feminist Media Histories), Lauren Cramer (University of Toronto; liquid blackness), and Patricia White (Swarthmore College; Camera Obscura). The panelists will discuss the nuts-and-bolts of journal publishing (for would-be contributors as well as would-be editors), and they will also each reflect on key directions in the fields of...

$4 Fridays at FilmScene

Friday, April 26, 2024 8:00pm to 11:59pm

FilmScene (Chauncey)

Every Friday after 8 p.m., students see any new release film for $4 at FilmScene!

Film History Now: A Conversation with Pardis Dabashi and Allyson Nadia Field

Tuesday, April 30, 2024 12:30pm to 2:00pm

Virtual

What does the practice of film history look like today? What different methods--from interdisciplinary inquiry to speculative historiography and public humanities projects--are scholars using to tell new stories about film culture? Please join us to discuss these and other questions with two highly accomplished scholars: Pardis Dabashi (Bryn Mawr College) and Allyson Nadia Field (University of Chicago). Dr. Dabashi will discuss her recently published monograph Losing the Plot: Form and Feeling...

$4 Fridays at FilmScene

Friday, May 3, 2024 8:00pm to 11:59pm

FilmScene (Chauncey)

Every Friday after 8 p.m., students see any new release film for $4 at FilmScene!

$4 Fridays at FilmScene

Friday, May 10, 2024 8:00pm to 11:59pm

FilmScene (Chauncey)

Every Friday after 8 p.m., students see any new release film for $4 at FilmScene!

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