Congratulations to Erin Hanna on the publication of Only at Comic-Con: Hollywood, Fans, and the Limits of Exclusivity
In her latest book, Only at Comic-Con: Hollywood, Fans, and the Limits of Exclusivity, Erin Hanna discusses the San Diego Comic-Con and how it became a Hollywood destination, how the industry’s presence at Comic-Con shapes our ideas about what it means to be a fan, and what this event tells us about the relationship between media industries and their fans, past and present. Only at Comic-Con examines the connection between exclusivity and the proliferation of media industry promotion at the longest-running comic convention in North America.
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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?
If you’re planning a trip to Los Angeles this summer, one of the best ways to experience the film capitol of the world might be attending a Hollywood film screening.
Daniel Gómez Steinhart, assistant professor of Cinema Studies, discusses his book Runaway Hollywood: Internationalizing Postwar Production and Location Shooting, which focuses on Hollywood filmmaking in Europe after World War II. Steinhart also talks about “Hollywood Style,” a class he developed and taught as a 2018-19 Oregon Humanities Center Teaching Fellow. The class examined the history and evolution of film technology and aesthetics.