Events

  • March 22: CPCFSS 24hr Film Festival

    The 24-hour Film Festival is back!

    Contestants will have 24 hours to write, direct, film and render their film. All films will be screened on Friday, March 22 from 7 to 10 p.m. in AS 215.

    Important dates
    March 20 – registration deadline
    March 21 – theme released at 8:00 a.m.
    March 22 at 8:00 a.m. – film submission due
    March 22 at 7:00 p.m. – film screening

    For information on registering your team, submission deadlines, judges and prizes, visit the CPCFSS page

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  • March 13-17: 60th Anniversary of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies

    Communication, Popular Culture and Film professors Liz Clarke, Anthony Kinik and Sarah Matheson will be traveling to Seattle for the 60th anniversary of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference.

    The annual conference includes panels, seminars, roundtables and workshops on diverse topics that encompass game studies, podcasts, animation, reality TV, sports media, contemporary film and early cinema.

    On Thursday, March 14 Department Chair and Associate Professor Sarah Matheson will serve as Chair in a panel discussion on Transnational Ethnicities in Television

    • CHAIR Sarah Matheson, Brock University
    • Thais Miller, University of California, Santa Cruz – “Representations of Refuseniks and Soviet Jewish Emigration in GLOW: Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling”
    • Andree Lafontaine, University of Tsukuba – “The Refracted Gazes of NHK’s Home Sweet Tokyo”
    • Richard Mwakasege-Minaya, University of Michigan – “The Cuban Exile Counterpoint: Media Activism, Conservative Latinidad, and Cold War Politics (1960–1980)”
    • Sarah Matheson, Brock University – “Transnational Media Studies and ‘Invisible TV’: Canadian Programming in the U.S.”

    On Friday, March 15

    Assistant Professor Liz Clarke will take part in a panel on Historical and Contemporary Approaches to Mediating War

    • CHAIR Giuliana Muscio, University of Padova
    • Liina-Ly Roos, University of Washington – “Future Memories of Trauma in Ingmar Bergman’s Shame”
    • Nichole Strobel, University of California, Santa Barbara – “‘Chilling Absurdity and Hideous Strength’: Branded Violence in Vice Media’s ‘The Islamic State’”
    • Liz Clarke, Brock University – “Preparedness, Propaganda, and World War I in American Film”
    • Bradley Schauer, University of Arizona –  “No Grand Thesis: Strategic Ambiguity and Peter Berg’s ‘Docbuster’ Trilogy”

    and Assistant Professor Anthony Kinik will take part in a panel on Making Music Across Genres

    • CHAIR Joy Schaefer, Grand Valley State University
    • Hannah Lewis, The University of Texas at Austin – “Cinematic Expectations and the Live Television Musical”
    • Anthony Kinik, Brock University – “Minimum and Maximum Rock ’n’ Roll: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and Rockumentary Form”
    • Curtis Russell, The Graduate Center, CUNY – “Cool Heads Prevail: Pop Music in the Films and TV of Edgar Wright”
    • Krin Gabbard, Columbia University – “‘God Comes Here for the Jazz, Not for the Girls’: Jazz as Religious Signifier in Preacher”

    On Sunday, March 17, Professor Kinik will take part in the Expanding and Reconsidering the City Symphony seminar.

     

     

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  • March 8: BrockTV RenderThis Student Film Festival

    RenderThis is BrockTV’s annual student film festival featuring short (2-15 minute) films written, directed, produced and edited by Brock University and Niagara College students. Entries will be judged by a panel of professors, instructors and industry experts with $1500 in prizes up for grabs.

    Join us at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, March 8 in the Sean O’Sullivan Theatre.

    Dress code: Semi-formal

    6:30 – 7:00 p.m – Meet and greet the filmmakers: reception portion of the evening, including refreshments

    7:00 p.m. – Screening

    Following an intermission, door prizes will be awarded.

    The evening concludes with the announcement of the judges’ and audience choice awards.

     

    Founded in 2005 by a group of Communication and Film students, BrockTV is dedicated to providing student produced campus coverage, live sports and original content.

    BrockTV YouTube channel

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  • March 5: Reading and Talk with Award-winning Author Maureen Jennings

    The organizing committee for the third annual Marilyn Rose Lecture at Brock University is very excited to bring author Maureen Jennings to Brock on Tuesday, March 5.

    This lecture was launched in 2017 in memory of our colleague Dr. Marilyn Rose who contributed so much to research and teaching in the English, Canadian Studies, and Popular Culture programs at Brock, while also making a notable contribution to the development of Graduate Studies in her role as Dean. Marilyn had wide ranging interests and research expertise, but one of her notable areas of focus was the study of crime fiction in Canada. She collaborated with Dr. Jeannette Sloniowski (recently retired from Communication, Popular Culture and Film) on the Crime Fiction Canada Project. Marilyn helped bring the David Skene-Melvin collection of popular crime novels to Special Collections in the Brock Library, and she and Jeanette co-edited the collection ‘Detecting Canada: Essays on Canadian Crime Fiction, Television, and Film’ (Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2014). In light of Marilyn’s work in this area, we thought that Ms. Jennings’ Murdoch Mystery novels and adaptations for television would make a wonderful topic for this year’s lecture.

    Members of the Brock community and the general public are invited to attend. Ms. Jennings talk, “It’s in the Details. How to Make a Crime Story Believable,” will explore the aspects of historical research that are involved in the creation of her crime fiction series.

    The Marilyn Rose Lecture will be held March 5, 2019, 11:00am – 12:30pm, Sankey Chamber, Brock University. Attendance is free and everyone is welcome.

    The event is sponsored by Council for Research in Social Sciences; Communication, Popular Culture and Film; Canadian Studies; Studies in Comparative Literature and Arts; English; and History.

    Learn more – read the Brock News article!

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  • Communications students share internship experiences

    Business Communication students Jennifer Nicholson, Alicia Nelson and Mohamed Lamin Saho and Media Communications student Julia Livia expressed their appreciation for the internship opportunity and the impact it had on their career paths.

    Learn more

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