Cinema and media studies

Exhibition traces ‘inseparable’ links between gaming and fantasy genre Charting Imaginary Worlds

Exhibition traces ‘inseparable’ links between gaming and fantasy genre

In ‘Charting Imaginary Worlds,’ UChicago Library presented a collection that spanned history, literature and fun

Games to play over winter break 2025 Four people play a board game with cards and figures.

Games to play over winter break 2025

UChicago gamers recommend these strategy, cozy and party games to enjoy over the holidays

Werewolf books and movies that make us more human Black and white image of Lon Chaney Jr in werewolf make up posing behind a tree.

Werewolf books and movies that make us more human

UChicago course examines the transformation trope across literature and film—from repressed desire to outsider identities

UChicago’s Film Studies Center to preserve groundbreaking work by Black and Filipino filmmakers A dancer in a white bodysuit dances inside a white parachute.

UChicago’s Film Studies Center to preserve groundbreaking work by Black and Filipino filmmakers

Grant funds will restore films by Aarin Burch and 1930s home movies of Chicago’s Filipino community

Sojourner Truth Festival of the Arts celebrates past and future of Black women’s filmmaking Julie Dash sits on stage while holding and talking into a microphone. Next to her on the right sits Barbara McCullough.

Sojourner Truth Festival of the Arts celebrates past and future of Black women’s filmmaking

Symposium at UChicago reunites filmmakers 47 years after the original festival

Piece of earliest known Black-produced film found hiding in plain sight Black and white still from the film The Trooper of Troop K. A man and woman sit on a front stoop looking at each other. The woman is holding a letter. In the left-hand corner is a superimposed scene of a man in a military hat talking to a woman.

Piece of earliest known Black-produced film found hiding in plain sight

UChicago scholar helps identify silent-era cinema fragment embedded in another film

UChicago scholar seeks to bridge media and legal studies Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky

UChicago scholar seeks to bridge media and legal studies

After studying footage of police, scholar receives awards to support interdisciplinary research

UChicago film scholar Jacqueline Stewart awarded MacArthur Fellowship Jacqueline Stewart

UChicago film scholar Jacqueline Stewart awarded MacArthur Fellowship

$625,000 grant recognizes work that illuminates contributions of Black filmmakers

The hidden history of ‘guerrilla television’: UChicago scholars preserve decades-old videos Portable video pioneers Wendy Appel and Rita Ogden, c. 1972.

The hidden history of ‘guerrilla television’: UChicago scholars preserve decades-old videos

Online archival project will create and share ‘a new wealth of cultural knowledge’ of 1970s

Robert Bird, prolific scholar of Russian literature and film, 1969–2020 Assoc. Prof. Robert Bird

Robert Bird, prolific scholar of Russian literature and film, 1969–2020

UChicago scholar made ‘a lasting impression’ both on campus and abroad