Dr. David Cook was featured as a film expert in two episodes of CNN’s 6-part series “The Movies,” produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, that ran through July and August 2019. Cook appeared in Part Five: “The Sixties,” speaking about late 1960s Hollywood, and in Part 6, “The Classics,”… Continue reading…
Graphic Violence addresses concerns that media bear some responsibility for social violence, comprehensively surveying predominant ideas about media violence and the research supporting and challenging these ideas. The book addresses issues ranging from social learning, to representations of war and terrorism, to gender and hyper-masculinity in the violent story. Each chapter… Continue reading…
Eric Dobbins, Tyler Gutosky and Kevin Padilla are Triad Regional Export Initiative (TREI) Interns at the Global Opportunities Center. Check out their Youtube channel to view videos created by their team.
Michael Frierson recently gave a presentation to the upper school at the Greensboro Day School on his documentary FBI KKK, a documentary about his father, Dargan Frierson, an FBI agent in Greensboro, NC, and his work with undercover informant George Franklin Dorsett, the Imperial Kludd, or chaplain, of the United Klans of… Continue reading…
Joseph Izzo, MST Class of 2005, was one of the production managers on Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse that won the 2019 Oscar for Best Animated Feature. Joseph lives in L.A and worked for Dreamworks Animation as a production coordinator on Kung Fu Panda, How to Train Your Dragon, and The… Continue reading…
When film professor David Cook joined the UNCG Media Studies Department in 2007, “A History of Narrative Film” was in its fourth and largest edition. The textbook, which is used at the Beijing Film Academy, the Free University of Brussels and over 400 colleges and universities in North America is… Continue reading…
Local writer/director and Media Studies alumnus, Maurice Hicks, discusses his nearly-finished film Rap & Rhyme with YesWeekly’s Ian McDowell. Read the full feature here!
Media Studies faculty David Cook and Will Dodson have been named Editors of a new Anthem Press Series on Exploitation and Industry in World Cinema. The Anthem Series on Exploitation and Industry in World Cinema incorporates a broad range of scholarship on filmmakers, genres, cycles and national cinemas, focusing on… Continue reading…
His thesis film from the UNCG MFA in film entitled “Weight” was selected for its short film debut at the 2017 RiverRun International Film Film Festival in the NC Short category. It was also selected as part of the 2017 Carnegie Mellon International “Faces” Film Festival where it was selected as one… Continue reading…
The UNCG Department of Media Studies is pleased to announce that the documentary “Union Time: Fighting for Workers’ Rights” will be screened at the 2017 Black History Media Festival, an event hosted by Bennett College. The theme this year is “The Spirit of Social Justice”. “Union Time” was produced and… Continue reading…
