OUR MISSION is media literacy: to train undergraduate and graduate students to be discerning consumers, scholars and producers of the our most dynamic and influential cultural forms, grounding them in a thorough knowledge of American and international film and television history, the practices of media theory and criticism, as well as familiarizing them with the tools and methodologies of documentary and fiction filmmaking.
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Academy Award winning film historian Kevin Brownlow lectures on "My Life with NAPOLEON" to a packed White Hall 205 on Thursday, December 1, 2011 with the assistance of his producing partner Patrick Stanbury.
A standing-room-only crowd attends the opening night of the Fall 2011 Film Noir Series to see Jacques Tourneur¿s 1947 OUT OF THE PAST.
Dean Robin Forman presents Annie Hall with the Emory College Arts and Sciences Employee of the Year Award on August 18, 2011. Ms. Hall is the Academic Department Administrator for the Department of Film and Media Studies.
A graduate seminar on adaptation, genre and criticism in Spring 2011.
Prof. Eddy von Mueller and veteran animators Don Bluth and Gary Goldman (Secret of Nimh, An American Tail, Land Before Time) during a February 2011 visit.
Students in the Content Creation class (the capstone course for the Film and Media Management Concentration) listen as Professor Eddy von Mueller interviews a media industry professional.
Walter Mirisch in a creativity conversation with Professor Matthew Bernstein.
A. O. Scott, leading film critic for the NEW YORK TIMES, speaks to film students about his work during a campus visit in March 2010.