Film Concentration News
Fall
2009
Summer
2009
Spring
2009
Fall 2009
Upcoming Film Events:
October 2009
Here are three upcoming
film-related events in the area:
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On Sunday, October 4, at 3:30
pm at the Wor-Wic Community College Guerrieri Auditorium, the
film Henry Poole is Here will be playing. Roger
Ebert's very positive review of the film can be found
here.
If you're interested, the cost to SU students is only $4.00.
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On Monday, October 19 and Wednesday, October
21, Spike Lee's film Miracle at St. Anna will screen
here on campus (more information to follow). The film
is being shown in conjunction with the visit of author James
McBride to our campus on Wednesday, October 28; McBride's
book was the basis of Lee's film (and McBride himself wrote
the screenplay).
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The Rehoboth Film Festival will be releasing
its program of films in October; this
year's festival will
take place November 11-15. The program will be
available at
http://www.rehobothfilm.com/festival.html
(check back in early October for a pdf of the festival
schedule).
Birth of a Film Critic!
Congratulations to Drs. Elsie
Walker and James Burton, who very recently welcomed a new
addition to their family! Charlotte Hope Burton is
pictured above with blissful Mom. If you want to send
either Dr. Walker or Dr. Burton (or both) a note, you can
contact them through their SU email accounts.
Film Concentration
Alumni
If you are a graduate of our
program and have found us here on the web, please feel free to
contact us about what you are currently doing, as we would love
to post periodic announcements about our alumni activities.
You can send any information to Dave Johnson at
dtjohnson@salisbury.edu
Welcome Back
We
want to welcome you back to SU for the fall semester; we hope
you have enjoyed your summer. Dr. Johnson will be handling
many of the day-to-day questions of the concentration this
semester. If you are new to our program or are interested
in it,
please feel free to stop by his office (HH 364) during his
office hours (for the fall, Mondays and Tuesdays, 1:00 pm to
3:30 pm) or make an appointment. If you are well along in
the program but have any other concerns, he is also happy to
answer any questions you might have.
Summer 2009
Film Matters: Undergraduate
Film Journal Seeks Contributions (Deadline: Sept 1)
Intellect has announced a new journal of undergraduate film
criticism called Film Matters, to be produced with the
Department of Film Studies at University of North Carolina
Wilmington. They are currently seeking submissions
from now until September 1. In order to submit, you must
be an undergraduate student at an institution of higher
learning; for more information, see the full announcement
here.
Feel
free to contact the SU film faculty if you are interested but
unsure what to expect from the process (or if you have an idea
for an essay you might want to develop further).
SILVERDOCS Film Festival in D.C.
Filmmaker Albert Maysles answers questions
at this year's SILVERDOCS. Photo by Matthew Cohen.
This year's SILVERDOCS festival took place in
June in Washington, D.C. It's a great annual event that
allows you to see some interesting films and filmmakers (such as
Albert Maysles, above). Internship opportunities may also
be available, for those of you who might be in the D.C. area
over the summer.
For a list of area film festivals, see the
Resources for Film Students page.
Spring 2009
The Limits of Jarmusch:
Film Students Visit D.C. to See Jim Jarmusch's Latest Film,
The Limits of Control
Students this past spring road-tripped to Washington, D.C., to
see Jim Jarmusch's latest film, The Limits of Control.
From Left: Eric Disque, Matthew
Cohen, and Ben Shultz
The response was very
positive--Matthew Cohen called it a "major achievement," and
Eric Disque said that,
"Ultimately the
film's power comes from what the audience makes of it." If
you're interested in seeing some of the latest foreign and
independent releases, remember that D.C. and Baltimore are only
two hours from SU.
SU
Student Research Conference Presentations
This
year, three film concentration students presented at the SU
Student Research Conference. Austin Brown and Eric Disque
co-presented "The Samurai Film and Generic Expectations,"
and Matthew Cohen presented "The New New Wave: The
French New Wave, Mumblecore, and the Idea of Aesthetic Schools." Both presentations were stimulating investigations of cinema and
showed excellent work on the part of all three students.
If
you're interested in presenting at next year's conference, talk
to one of the film faculty. It's a great opportunity to
explore an essay you've already written for a course (but in
much further detail). Alternatively, it's an equally great
opportunity to write about that film you've always wanted to
study but that you've never been able to. In either case,
make sure you contact one of your professors well in advance of
the deadline for submissions (usually in March).
New
Film
Minor
Beginning in Fall of
2009, students in majors other than English will be able to
minor in Film. For more information, click
here.
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