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CIMS Welcomes Award-Winning Poet Ricardo Alexio to Campus
Next month, CIMS is sponsoring a series of events featuring award-winning Brazilian poet Ricardo Alexio. On April 18th, 19th, and 21st, Alexio will be on campus to present and discuss his poetical and audiovisual work. All of these events will be free and open to the public. On April 18th, there will be a screening […]
CIMS Announces Fall 2023 Course Offerings
The CIMS program has just announced our course offerings for the upcoming Fall 2023 semester. In addition to several returning courses, we are excited to announce a brand new course offering: “Inhuman Films: Genders, Animals, Machines.” “Inhuman Films” will be taught by Master Lecturer Dr. Sean Desilets, and will explore the intersection of feminist theory […]
CIMS Film Screening Event Earns Daily Free Press Coverage
Earlier this week, the Daily Free Press published an article highlighting the success of the CIMS-sponsored Autumn Beat screening event, which included an in-person Q&A session with the film’s director and screenwriter, Antonio Dikele Distefano. The article, penned by Daily Free Press author Caterina Tomassini, detailed the importance of the film’s depiction of Afro-Italians, a group that has historically […]
CIMS Co-sponsors Short Film Competition
CIMS is partnering with the Romance Studies Department’s annual Second-Language Learning & Disabilities Conference to host the Inclusive Short Film Competition: Film for All, Film for Everyone. The competition aims to normalize the presence of disabilities in front of and behind the camera, to make sure that disabled people are accomodated in viewing the short […]
Professor Petrus Liu Publishes Book, “The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus.”
Petrus Liu, Associate Chair of WLL and Associate Professor of Chinese & Comparative Literature and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Cinema & Media Studies has recently published a book titled The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus. The work, focusing mainly on geopolitical queer theory, includes […]
CIMS “Auteur Film” Course Hosts Production Workshop
Last week, students in Sean Desilets’ “Auteur Film: Claire Denis” class participated in a production workshop taught by production specialists at Boston University’s Shipley Center. During the workshop, students were instructed on how to use CIMS’ newly acquired cameras, tripods, lighting equipment, and sound equipment. The workshop was hosted in preparation for the students’ final […]
Filmmaker Rokhaya Diallo Visits Students in “Cinema-Monde: Mapping French Film” Course
Students in Prof. Jennifer Cazenave’s course “Cinema-Monde: Mapping French Film”, were joined via zoom by French journalist, writer, activist, and award-winning filmmaker, Rokhaya Diallo. After viewing Diallo’s recent film, La Parisienne Démystifiée (The Parisienne Uncovered, 2021), students had the opportunity to ask the filmmaker questions about her process and inspiration as a filmmaker, as well as […]
CIMS Professors Interviewed on “Night at the Movies”
Professor Aaron Garrett and former Italian Lecturer Claretta Tonetti were recently featured on the episodes of “Night at the Movies”, a BU student-led podcast discussing classic films and what draws us to them. You can check out each episode of the podcast on Spotify.
CIMS Welcome New Faculty for the 2022-2023 Academic Year
The Cinema & Media Studies Program is proud to welcome Visiting Assistant Professor Roshaya Rodness and Part-Time Lecturer, Dr. Aida Vidan, to the faculty for the 2022-2023 academic year. Prof. Rodness’s research and teaching focuses on queer cinema, the film and media of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and experimental film form. She holds a Ph.D. from […]
CIMS Adds Administrative Roles to the Program
The Cinema & Media Studies Program welcomes two new administrative roles this academic year to oversee the growth and development of the program. Dr. Jim Carter, Full-Time Lecturer in the Italian Studies program will serve as the 2022-2023 Associate Chair. Prof. Jennifer Cazenave, Assistant Professor of French Studies, will serve as Director of Undergraduate Studies.