Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies, Concordia’s own peer-reviewed journal, has released their October 2018 issue. You can find the complete issue here. The issue features reviews of Joshua Neves and Baskar Sarkar’s collection Asian Video Cultures, Lee…
PhD Canadidate at Concordia and Vanier Scholar Ilona Jurkonytė curated one of Lithuania’s most well-recognized film festivals, Kaunas International Film Festival, from September 20-30. Jurkonytė also organized the international film studies symposium “Film Festivals and Public Space,” featuring a keynote address…
Nikola Stepić, a graduate of the MA in Film Studies and presently a doctoral student in the PhD in Humanities, has won the FSAC/ACEQ Gerald Pratley Award for best essay on Canadian film and media for his essay: “French Connections: Gay…
PhD Candidate Enrique Fibla Gutierrez has received the Concordia School of Graduate Studies’ Stand-Out Graduate Research Award in the “Person and Society” category for his research on non-commercial cinema during the Second Spanish Republic. His work investigates the relationship between…
Shout Out! PhD Candidate Theo Stojanov is part of the round-table Relocation, Media Industries, and City Branding, published in Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture. This round-table builds on work of urban media studies to asks this question: how do cities…
Shout Out! PhD Antoine Damiens published an article in the Studies in European Cinema Journal! In his article, “The queer film ecosystem: symbolic economy, festivals, and queer cinema’s legs”, Antoine examines the specific role of LGBT festivals in the circulation and…
PhD Candidate Brandon Arroyo recently started a podcast series titled Porno Cultures Podcast, in which he interviews academics working on pornography studies. The first episode, which came out on Oct. 13, stars Professor Peter Alilunas, who talks about his first book…
Shout Out! PhD Candidate Julien Lapointe published a chapter in the recent anthology World Building: Transmedia, Fans, Industries, part of Amsterdam University Press’ Transmedia series. The anthology is edited by Marta Boni (Assistant Professor at Université de Montréal’s Art History and…
Shout Out! PhD candidate Julien Lapointe published an article in the latest issue of Film Journal. In “Hollywood Cinema and Baroque Companionship: An Analytic Critique of David Bordwell’s ‘Classical Paradigm’”, Julien enlists arguments from analytic philosophy and logical positivism to develop a…
Before mid-term break begins next week, head to the Université de Montréal for the 19th annual FSAC Grad Colloquium, which takes place this week, February 15-18. On Wednesday, February 15, at 4pm (16h), the Colloquium will begin with an opening talk…
Film and Moving Image Studies doctoral student, Desirée de Jesus, has been awarded the title of Public Scholar in the inaugural competition of Concordia’s new Public Scholars Program. The award is valued at $10,000. The tenure of her award goes…
The Film Studies Association of Canada have announced the recipients of the 2016 FSAC Student Writing award and the 2016 Gerald Pratley Award, and both have gone to Concordia Mel Hoppenheim PhD students! The FSAC Student Writing Award The FSAC Student…