Film Studies Certificate Program

FILM EVENTS
2007/2008

 

Spring 2008

 

Friday, February 22--POSTPONED
Screening and discussion of
Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku, 2000)

Introduced by Professor Heather Hendershot

6:30pm, DSC Lounge (Room  5414)
Sponsored by the Cinema Studies Group

Friday, March 21
CUNY Film and Media Lecture Series
 "The First Holocaust Film? Aleksander Ford's Vernichtungslager Majdanek [the Cemetery of Europe] (November 1944)"

Professor Stuart Liebman
Department of Media Studies
& Coordinator, Film Studies Program,
Queens College & Ph. D. Programs in Art
History & Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center

3:30-5:30pm, Room C-419
Sponsored by the Film Studies Certificate Program
Reservations: Paula Massood
 

Thursday & Friday, April 10-11
Framed: Delimiting the Film Image
A CUNY Graduate Center Interdisciplinary Conference

Details TBA

April 10: 6:30-pm, Segal Theatre

April 11:  9:00am-5:30pm, Room 9206
                  9:00am-5:30pm, Skylight Room (Room 9100)
Sponsored by the Film Studies Certificate Program and the Cinema Studies Group

Information and CFP

Friday, April 11
Film and the Art of Persuasion:
A Screening of Three Rare Films

6:30pm, Segal Theatre
Sponsored by the Film Studies Certificate Program


Fall 2007
 

Wednesday, September 26
Screening of The Exorcist

Introduced by Professor Edward Miller (Media Studies, College of Staten Island)

This is the first of monthly screenings sponsored by the newly formed Cinema Studies Group (CSG)

Reception and post-screening discussion follows
6:30 p.m. DSC Lounge (Room 5414)


Monday, October 29
Screening of Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks, 1971)

Second of the CSG screenings this semester and a fine pre-Halloween treat.

Refreshments provided
6:30 p.m. DSC Lounge (Room 5414)
 

Thursday, November 8
Screening of Peau d'Ane [DONKEY SKIN] (Jacques Demy, 1971)
Starring Catherine Deneuve & Jean Marais

Introduced by Professor Amy Herzog (Cinema Studies,
Queens)

Refreshments provided
6:30pm, DSC Lounge (Room 5414)
Sponsored by CSG
 

 Friday, November 9
Films Lost and Found: The Women’s Film Preservation Fund Tour

Films by Mary Ellen Bute, Gunvor Nelson, Storm de Hirsh, Maya Deren and Jouse Alaimo, Judy Smith and Ellen Sorin

Panel discussion: Chair, Heather Hendershot, Coordinator, Film Studies Certificate Program

Speakers: Drake Stutesman, Women’s Film Preservation Fund; Mary Ann Caws, English, French, and Comparative Literature, The Graduate Center/ CUNY; Patricia White, English and Film Studies, Swarthmore College

4:00 - 6:30 p.m., Martin E. Segal Theatre
Co-sponsored with the Film Studies and Women's Studies Certificate Programs, Center for the Humanities and the Ph.D. Program in English

 

Monday, December 10
Screening of Arthur (Steve Gordon, 1981)
Starring Dudley Moore and John Gielgud

Refreshments provided
6:30pm, DSC Lounge (Room 5414)
Sponsored by CSG

 

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