As the comprehensive support facility for the Department of Cinema & Media Studies, the Film Studies Center provides an ideal site for students and faculty to research film and other media. Explore the role the FSC plays in fostering interdisciplinary film scholarship through our study collections and public events programming.

Upcoming Event

The Killing Floor
Thursday, May 17, 2012 - 7:00pm

Praised by The Village Voice as the most “clear-eyed account of union organizing on film," The Killing Floor is a powerful dramatic feature that tells the little-known true story of the struggle to build an interracial labor union in the Chicago Stockyards... 

Upcoming Event

What is Cinematic?
Thursday, May 24, 2012 - 7:00pm

What is the Cinematic? Is there a way film reflects an experience—of vision, of movement, of synchronized sound—that is not limited to film and projectors?  In an era not only of new media but of fusion among the arts and media, what does expanded cinema mean? We want to address these issues through an engagement with the work of Bull.Miletic, installation and video artists based in Oslo, Norway...