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Published: 05 September 2023

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The Department of French and the Program in Cinema Studies are deeply saddened by the passing of Professor Alan L. Williams, our beloved colleague of many years, on August 16, 2023.

Read more: Remembering Alan Williams

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Published: 06 October 2021

Film and Revolution (01:175:377:01) 

MW 3:50PM to 5:10PM

Professor David Fresko, Cinema Studies

“War and Cinema” (01:175:377:04)

Wednesday 12:10PM to 1:30PM and Friday 2:00PM to 3:20PM in AB-4140

Wednesday Night Screening from 5:40PM to 8:50PM in AB-4140

Professor Dominic Leppla

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Published: 06 October 2021

Congratulations to Stephanie Man, Oakley Mastej, and Priyanka Sarkhel, who have won the 2021 Cinema Studies Essay Award!

 Oakley Mastej Priyanka SarkhelStephanie Man

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Published: 09 June 2020

Congratulations to Will Pagdatoon on his receipt of the prestigious Henry Rutgers Scholar Award for his Senior Honors thesis, “Gazing Upon Varda’s Cinécriture: Rewriting Patriarchal Cinema Towards a Feminist Cinema.” Will graduated this May from the School of Arts and Sciences as a Cinema Studies major. Working with Professor Sandy Flitterman-Lewis in the English Department as well as the Program in Cinema Studies, Will’s thesis examined the work of filmmaker Agnès Varda (1928-2019). Varda was the sole female filmmaker associated with the French New Wave of the 1960s, and one of the most significant filmmakers in world cinema more generally. She was the recipient of numerous awards, including a 2017 Honorary Award from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and was nominated that same year for Best Documentary for Faces Places (2017).

Read more: Congratulations to Will Pagdatoon!

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Published: 16 June 2020

• Nancy Arana (major)
• Areg Avetisyan (major)
• Avery Chang (minor)
• Anisha Cherian (minor)
• John DeJesus (minor)
• Tiffany Dimaculangan (major)
• Adam Forrest (minor)
• Jared Gaudreau (major)
• Zhaoyang Liu (major)
• Andrew Mazza (minor)
• William Albert Pagdatoon (major)
• Aimee Rabino (major)
• Alana Sackman (minor)
• Karan Sandhu (major)
• Kayla Scammacca (minor)
• Tanner Sutton (minor)
• Luis Veras (minor)

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Published: 10 June 2019

Congratulations to our 2019 Essay Award Winners! Christiane Fischer (L) won the Graduate award for her essay on the aesthetics of touch in Wong Kar-Wai, and Jessica Fitzner (r) won the Undergraduate award for her paper on women's desire and representation in Petzold's film Phoenix.

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Published: 10 June 2019

Congratulations to our wonderful Cinema Studies graduates! Pictured on the left are CS majors Hager Selym and Estefany Mendez-Recio. Below is CS major Martha Ugwu. Also graduating: Majors: Dayna Hagewood, Fran Magen and Xinyue Wang; Minors: Delaney Alton, Sarina Bhutani, John DeJesus, Catherine Gural, Ellen Lee, Felix Ortiz-Cruz, and Marisa Tamini. We are very proud of you, and wish you great success and happiness in your professional and personal endeavors!

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Published: 20 March 2019

DEADLINE: Monday April 1, 2019

The Cinema Studies Program is delighted to continue our program in support of graduate and undergraduate student research in the discipline (including scholarly media projects such as film restoration or film essays), and undergraduate filmmaking projects. Applications may be submitted by graduate students pursuing the Graduate Certificate in Cinema Studies and who are still eligible for SGS funding, and by undergraduate students who are declared Majors or Minors in Cinema Studies. Awards will be granted based on need, for legitimate reimbursable expenses only, and based on the academic or creative merits of the proposed film/film studies project (please note that we are not able to provide funding for projects that are not focused specifically on film). Reimbursements will generally be applied to term bills. SAS travel and research reimbursement policies will be observed; for more information, please consult: https://policies.rutgers.edu/sites/policies/files/40.4.1%20-%20current.pdf

Awardees are required to submit a one-page report indicating how they used the funds by December 1, 2019; their projects may be featured on the Cinema Studies website.

Graduate students must submit a 250-500 word description of their research project, as well as a budget detailing how they plan to use the funds (for example, travel to archives; acquisition of necessary primary research materials; travel to an academic conference to present a film paper; etc.). Please note that these funds are meant to supplement other sources of graduate student research support provided by Rutgers’ School of Graduate Studies, or by home department or other academic unit funds. Generally, CS grants to graduate students will not exceed $500.

Undergraduate students must submit a 250-500 word description of their research or filmmaking project, as well as a budget detailing how they plan to use the funds (for example, for travel to archives; acquisition of primary research materials; equipment rental; mise-en-scène costs; etc.). Generally, CS grants to undergraduate students will not exceed $250.

All applications will be evaluated by the Cinema Studies Awards Committee.

Please complete the application form on the second page and send it along with the other required application materials, all in one electronic file labeled “CS grants YOUR LAST NAME,” to the Director of Cinema Studies, Professor Susan Martin-Márquez: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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Published: 17 May 2018

Four of our CS majors braved the pouring rain on May 13 to march with Cinema Studies in the SAS Convocation: l to r: Elorm Ocansey, Tom Evans, Dan Bacsik, and Dak Johnson.

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Published: 27 April 2018

The Cinema Studies Program held its Awards Lunch on April 26, 2018. We honored two faculty members who are retiring, Professors John Belton and Richard Koszarski. CS students and faculty will miss you!

We also celebrated the tenuring and promotion to Associate Professor of Rhiannon Welch, and presented the Undergraduate Essay Award to Dayna Hagewood and Gabrielle Woods, and the Graduate Essay Award to Chiara Degli Esposti. Several other graduating senior majors were present: Chelsea Lebron, Elorm Ocansey, and Austin Renna—congratulations!

Associate Professor Rhiannon Welch

Retiring professors John Belton and Richard Koszarski (center) with CS students and faculty

Essay Award winners, left to right: Dayna Hagewood (undergraduate); Chiara Degli Esposti (graduate); Gabrielle Woods (undergraduate)

On April 24, 2018 members of the Senior Seminar presented their final projects in a symposium they organized on “Neorealism as Counter Cinema.” Congratulations to the students on a wonderfully stimulating series of talks, and many thanks to Professor Rhiannon Welch for inspiring and mentoring them throughout the semester!

Student presenters, left to right: Thomas Evans; Elorm Ocansey; Dorian Alton; Andrew Schuller; Marcus Grey; Erin Keane; Benjamin Peraria; Anjali Patil; Johanna Morales; Gabrielle Woods; Chelsea Lebron; Bruce Lemyre; Bronwyn Kelly; Molly Burns; Dongshen Cai; and Hector Ayarza