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From the spring of 2015 through the fall of 2016, Professor Karyn Riddle and four graduate students at UW–Madison researched and wrote a new paper on the nature of TV binge-watching. After a lengthy peer review process, the paper will be published in the journal Psychology of Popular Media Culture in the coming months. Notably, …

The UW-Cinematheque and the Department of Communication Arts hosted film director Damien Chazelle on February 23-24, 2018. Chazelle, the Academy Award-winning director of La La Land, toured the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research and participated in public discussions with UW Cinematheque director Jim Healy and Professors David Bordwell and Kelley Conway. For more …

It is our great pleasure to share that Associate Professor Sara McKinnon is the winner of the Bonnie Ritter Book Award for her book Gendered Asylum: Race and Violence in U.S. Law and Politics. The Bonnie Ritter Book Award in Feminist/Women Studies in Communication is an annual award first established in 2008, sponsored by the …

For decades, many assumed Stalin had great or total control over filmmaking in the Soviet Union. However, in her new revisionist book, Not According to Plan, Assistant Professor Maria Belodubrovskaya argues that was not the case. Instead, fascinatingly, it was empowered directors who maintained control over their films during Stalin’s rule. Professor Belodubrovskaya’s research was …

Last February, the Department of Communication Arts celebrated one of our teaching assistants for being the first in the department’s history to receive a campus-wide TA award. Now, in the following year, we are extremely proud to announce that not one, but two more of our teaching assistants will be recipients of the 2017 Campus-Wide …

We are proud to share that Dr. Andrew Bottomley is the recipient of the 2018 Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Dissertation Award. Dr. Bottomley is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies in SUNY Oneonta’s Department of Communication & Media, as well as an alumnus of the Department of Communication Arts at UW-Madison, where …

On Sunday, December 3rd, UW alumnus James G. Hirsch will receive the Caucus Lifetime Achievement Award from the Caucus of Producers, Writers and Directors at the organization’s 35th Annual Awards Dinner. The Caucus is an organization that has worked to “elevate the quality and diversity of television and new media and to protect the creative …

On Thursday, October 19, Kelly Kahl was one of four recipients to receive the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Wisconsin Alumni Association. The award, first established in 1936, is the highest honor bestowed by the Wisconsin Alumni Association, which only presents the award to the “most prestigious graduates of UW-Madison for their professional achievements, contributions …

The weekend of October 13-15, students and Madison community members have the opportunity to see three brand new films at Madison’s Asian American Media Spotlight.  This annual event, now in its third year as a standalone festival, offers the rare opportunity to screen and discuss films that are made by Asian Americans and focus on …

On Friday, the filmmaker Charles Burnett met with about two dozen undergraduate and graduate students from Communication Arts media production courses. In town for UW-Madison’s Distinguished Lecture Series, as well as a Cinematheque screening of his 1990 film To Sleep with Anger, Burnett was gracious enough to hold an intimate Q&A with the students. In …