The Department of Cinema Studies congratulates Chloé Zhao on her 2021 Academy Award nominations and Golden Globe wins for Nomadland.
As the 2018 Harlan J. Strauss Visiting Filmmaker, Chloé joined our academic community for a two-week residency, guest-lecturing in the course “CINE 408: The Art of Directing” and participating in a series of public talks on our campus. Cinema Studies fondly remembers the generosity with which Chloé mentored our students and all the stimulating conversations she had with faculty during her residency. We are honored to have hosted on our campus such an inspiring filmmaker. In renewing our commitment to the values about cinema and ethical living that Chloé has so graciously shared with us through her work and during her residency, we would like to echo a passage from her acceptance speech at the Golden Globes. Continue reading “Congratulations to Director Chloé Zhao”
Sabrina Gimenez loved movies, but she couldn’t imagine a future in film until a light bulb moment during her senior year at the University of Oregon.
Associate Professor Dong Hoon Kim’s new article, “Comrade Kim Goes Global: Refiguring North Korean Cinema in a Global Context,” was published in the Fall 2020 issue of Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context.
Comfortably ensconced in Hans Florine’s basement in Yosemite West where he works as a caretaker, Buschini fills his days with filming, taking photographs and climbing everything in sight.
Article from CINE Montage: Journal of the Motion Picture Editors Guild
Congratulations to Erin Hanna on the publication of Only at Comic-Con: Hollywood, Fans, and the Limits of Exclusivity
Dear Cinema Studies Community: I write to share the department’s absolute support for our international students. Since July 6, 2020, the Cinema Studies team has been tracking and supporting the work of the 
Hello, Cinema Studies Community. As the Cinema Studies team was working night and day to prepare a fall schedule that will keep us safe and healthy on campus amidst a pandemic, a new but sadly familiar crisis shook the world. George Floyd’s death is an important reminder that, for members of our Black community, no day is truly “safe.” As resistance movements march in the streets, we must all carefully revisit the ways in which white power and privilege shape our lives and end others. As a non-Black woman of color, I stand in solidarity with the Black community by listening, learning, and taking action.
“All students have also been granted free access to Adobe Premier and received Zoom tutorials in editing video from cinema studies support instructor Kevin May. He would normally assist the class in-person in a campus media lab, but he has adapted to remote instruction, which students say has been invaluable.”
“My home office is being used by my partner, so I’ve carved out space in our guest room and Frankenstein’d it into a makeshift studio. Keep in mind — even though I am a Cinema Studies Professor — I have ZERO production experience! I’ve never made anything, ever. I’m a historian! If you need to know the history of the VCR, I’m your guy! But making a video? Um, what?