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Emily Edwards releases Graphic Violence: Illustrated Theories about Violence, Popular Media, and Our Social Lives

August 12, 2019

Graphic Violence addresses concerns that media bear some responsibility for social violence, comprehensively surveying predominant ideas about media violence and the […]


Media Studies interns have been busy at the at Greensboro’s Global Opportunities Center.

April 5, 2019

Eric Dobbins, Tyler Gutosky and Kevin Padilla are Triad Regional Export Initiative (TREI) Interns at the Global Opportunities Center. Check […]


Michael Frierson presents FBI KKK, a documentary about his father

March 20, 2019

Michael Frierson recently gave a presentation to the upper school at the Greensboro Day School on his documentary FBI KKK, a documentary […]


Alumni Joseph Izzo is a production manager for Oscar Winning film

March 4, 2019

Joseph Izzo, MST Class of 2005, was one of the production managers on Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse that won the […]


David Cook, films and his universally renowned textbook

March 1, 2019

When film professor David Cook joined the UNCG Media Studies Department in 2007, “A History of Narrative Film” was in […]


Alumnus Maurice Hicks featured in YesWeekly

December 11, 2018

Local writer/director and Media Studies alumnus, Maurice Hicks, discusses his nearly-finished film Rap & Rhyme with YesWeekly’s Ian McDowell. Read […]


Anthem Series on Exploitation and Industry in World Cinema

November 11, 2018

Media Studies faculty David Cook and Will Dodson have been named Editors of a new Anthem Press Series on Exploitation […]


Fausto Barrionuevo’s “Weight” was selected for debut at 2017 RiverRun International Film Festival

April 5, 2017

His thesis film from the UNCG MFA in film entitled “Weight” was selected for its short film debut at the 2017 […]


Screening of Professor Barr’s “Union Time: Fighting for Workers’ Rights” Documentary at Bennett College

February 10, 2017

The UNCG Department of Media Studies is pleased to announce that the documentary “Union Time: Fighting for Workers’ Rights” will […]