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Umass Film Studies is an interdepartmental and interdisciplinary program that offers a film major (BA), a graduate certificate in Film Studies, as well as two online certificates: undergraduate in film studies, and graduate in videographic criticism The Certificate Program in Film Studies offers a comprehensive course of study in the history, criticism, theory, aesthetics, and production of the mo

ving image in the unique context of an interdepartmental and interdisciplinary program. The Interdepartmental Program in Film Studies is the home of the Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival, an annual series that brings to the campus and Five College community important new international films and visiting filmmakers. Certificate students are encouraged to participate in the Festivalโ€™s one-credit colloquium and internship program as well as in the annual Five College Student Film and Video Festival which showcases the best work of students in the Five Colleges and offers valuable opportunities to Certificate students interested in production to screen their film and video projects and to participate in producing and organizing the Festival.

12/31/2024

Happy 2025 from UMass Film Studies

๐Ÿ“žWhatโ€™s your favorite scary movie? Join us on Wednesday, November 20th, 5pm in Herter H...
11/13/2024

๐Ÿ“žWhatโ€™s your favorite scary movie? Join us on Wednesday, November 20th, 5pm in Herter Hall room 211 for some horror movie trivia and to discuss some recent American horror films, including Longlegs, The Substance, Smile 2 and more!
All welcome - pizza, refreshments and Halloween candy will be served!
Questions? : [email protected]

Diana Fernรกndez-Romero, Associate Professor at the Univ. Rey Juan Carlos of Madrid, and visiting scholar at UMASS Film S...
10/23/2024

Diana Fernรกndez-Romero, Associate Professor at the Univ. Rey Juan Carlos of Madrid, and visiting scholar at UMASS Film Studies this month, delivered a powerful and inspiring talk yesterday on aging women, affects, and the right to rage. Her insights were deeply thought-provoking, offering an empowering perspective on how emotions intersect with the experiences of women as they age: https://www.umass.edu/humanities-arts/news/diana-fernandez-romero-visiting-scholar
Diana and I co-edited a special issue of Teknokultura on Women's Right to Rage, https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/TEKN/issue/view/4092,
as part of a three-year project โ€œThe Mediatization of Women's Rage,โ€ funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.
Thank you, Diana, for such an amazing presentation!

Now introducing our new online Graduate Certificate in Videographic Criticism!! Open to students from UMass and beyond!
10/21/2024

Now introducing our new online Graduate Certificate in Videographic Criticism!! Open to students from UMass and beyond!

Hi everyone! We hope youโ€™ll join us tomorrow for this special presentation!
10/21/2024

Hi everyone! We hope youโ€™ll join us tomorrow for this special presentation!

Registration for online winter courses is now open and open to everyone! UMass and non-UMass students are encouraged to ...
10/21/2024

Registration for online winter courses is now open and open to everyone! UMass and non-UMass students are encouraged to register! โ˜ƒ๏ธ

Tecmerin, Ariel Avissar, and Barbara Zecchi are delighted to invite contributions to โ€œ๐’๐ญ๐š๐ซ๐๐จ๐ฆ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐€๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ : ๐๐ž๐ญ๐ฐ๐ž๐ž๐ง ๐ƒ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐š๐ง...
10/18/2024

Tecmerin, Ariel Avissar, and Barbara Zecchi are delighted to invite contributions to โ€œ๐’๐ญ๐š๐ซ๐๐จ๐ฆ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐€๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ : ๐๐ž๐ญ๐ฐ๐ž๐ž๐ง ๐ƒ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐’๐ญ๐š๐ซ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญโ€, a special edition of the Screen Stars Dictionary dedicated to the multifaceted experiences of aging actors, from silvering stars who embrace their bright journey to eternity, to those who dim quietly into plastic surgery and/or obscurity. We welcome video essays that engage with these themes from a variety of scholarly perspectives, encompassing all periods of film and television history.
If you are interested in submitting a proposal, send an email with your idea to Barbara Zecchi ([email protected]), Ariel Avissar ([email protected]) and Vicente Rodrรญguez Ortega ([email protected]), the collectionโ€™s editors. Please send us the first draft of your video no later than ๐Œ๐š๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐ง๐, 2025. For full details go to: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jYN0941p_KhnnJSCQFiwKdi9YefZkfx3r5N5G6dWdiE/

We hope to see you at this special lecture by Nathan Abrams on Kubrickโ€™s โ€˜Aryan Papersโ€™ on Nov 7.
10/18/2024

We hope to see you at this special lecture by Nathan Abrams on Kubrickโ€™s โ€˜Aryan Papersโ€™ on Nov 7.

Please join us for a Film Studies night at Amherst Cinema, tomorrow, Wednesday October 16 at 7pm for the screening of Ar...
10/15/2024

Please join us for a Film Studies night at Amherst Cinema, tomorrow, Wednesday October 16 at 7pm for the screening of Armageddon, Co-written by Jonathan Hensleigh, UMass Amherst, Class of 1981.
https://amherstcinema.org/films-and-events/armageddon
Guests wearing college apparel will receive a discount on tickets purchased at the Box Office!!!

We hope you can join us on Thursday for a special screening from the DEFA Film Library. ๐Ÿฟ
10/15/2024

We hope you can join us on Thursday for a special screening from the DEFA Film Library. ๐Ÿฟ

Winter Registration opens today!! โ˜ƒ๏ธ
10/09/2024

Winter Registration opens today!! โ˜ƒ๏ธ

We hope to see you there tomorrow!!
10/07/2024

We hope to see you there tomorrow!!

Happy Monday!! Here are some events to start filling up your October calendar. Hope to see you there! ๐Ÿฅณ
09/23/2024

Happy Monday!! Here are some events to start filling up your October calendar.

Hope to see you there! ๐Ÿฅณ

Welcome back Film Studies students! We hope you have a great Fall Semester! ๐Ÿฟ๐ŸŽฌ
09/17/2024

Welcome back Film Studies students! We hope you have a great Fall Semester! ๐Ÿฟ๐ŸŽฌ

Happy Fall 2024!! Join us on Wednesday, Sept. 25th at 3:15PM in ILC S404 to fulfill you wanderlust needs! โœˆ๏ธ๐ŸŒ
09/17/2024

Happy Fall 2024!! Join us on Wednesday, Sept. 25th at 3:15PM in ILC S404 to fulfill you wanderlust needs! โœˆ๏ธ๐ŸŒ

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Happy 2025 from UMass Film Studies!

Happy 2025 from UMass Film Studies

We have some very exciting mews to shareโ€ฆ๐Ÿฅน๐Ÿฅณ๐ŸŽ‰

Hey everyone! We have one last reel from the MMFF 2024. This is from our last event where we screened Sis Dies Corrents directed by Neus Ballรบs.

Hello everyone, we have another reel from last yearโ€™s MMFF! This is from our screening of Anhell69 directed by Theo Montoya. ๐ŸŽฅ๐Ÿฟ๐ŸŽฌ

Hey everyone! We have a new reel for you today from the MMFFs screening of Birโ€™em, directed by Camille Clavel, last semester!

Hi everyone! We wanted to take you back to last yearโ€™s MMFF screening of Rapito directed by Marco Bellocchio.

Happy Monday everyone! Here are some highlights from our screening of 20,000 Species of Bees at the Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival last semester! ๐Ÿ

As youโ€™re enrolling in classes, be sure to check FILM-ST 353: African Film, taught by Professor Patrick Mensah! This course comes highly recommended and offers an introduction to African film as an aesthetic and cultural practice. Students should expect to be familiarized with the key ideas and objectives that have inspired and driven that practice since the early 1960s, and be furnished with the technical tools and methodological skills that would permit them to understand, analyze, and think critically about the artistic and thematic aspects of the films that are screened. This course fulfills the III, V Film Certificate requirements and fulfills the N Film Studies Major requirement. (Gen.Ed. AT, DG) #umass #umassfilmstudies

As youโ€™re enrolling in classes, be sure to check our FILM-ST 284: The Undead Souths, taught by Professor Patrick Mensah! โ€œThis course will explore themes of the Southern Gothic in works of Cinema and popular Televisual narratives. We will study the development of the lurid motifs of the Gothic that works affiliated with this genre often deploy to invoke a sense of horror and dread, moral corruption, and psychological abjection, all seemingly meant to assimilate the South and its citizens to the category of a degenerate and menacing otherness. This course fulfills the III, V Film Certificate requirements. (Gen. Ed. AT, DU)โ€ #umassfilmstudies #umass

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