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

Film About a Woman Who…
Friday, February 12, 2010 - 7:00pm


Film About a Woman Who..., a landmark film that is still considered by many to be Yvonne Rainer's masterpiece, is a meditation on ambivalence that plays with cliché and the conventions of soap opera while telling the story of a woman whose sexual dissatisfaction masks an enormous anger...

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Quilombo and Utopia: The Aesthetic of Labor in Brazilian Documentary
Friday, February 19, 2010 - 5:00pm


Skvirsky examines the documentary tradition inaugurated by Aruanda (1960), a Cinema Novo classic about a rural community of descendents of escaped slaves. She will argue that, though neglected by scholars, the maroon settlement is one of the privileged spaces of the Cinema Novo filmscape...

Upcoming Event

Pictures and Sounds
Saturday, February 20, 2010 - 8:00pm


Pictures and Sounds, the annual multimedia showcase hosted by WHPK and the Film Studies Center, presents re-imagined and improvised soundtracks to new video work and classics of silent, experimental, and outsider film...