Cinema and media studies

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

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 seeks to bridge media and legal studies Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky

UChicago scholar seeks to bridge media and legal studies

UChicago film scholar Jacqueline Stewart awarded MacArthur Fellowship Jacqueline Stewart

UChicago film scholar Jacqueline Stewart awarded MacArthur Fellowship

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

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

Humanities Day keynote to examine how home movies represent cultural history Prof. Jacqueline Najuma Stewart

Humanities Day keynote to examine how home movies represent cultural history

Academy honors UChicago scholar who identified historic on-screen kiss Something Good Kiss reel preview

Academy honors UChicago scholar who identified historic on-screen kiss

Silent film of black couple’s kiss discovered, added to National Film Registry Thumbnail

Silent film of black couple’s kiss discovered, added to National Film Registry

Filmmaker Issa Rae describes ‘do-it-yourself’ approach to success

Filmmaker Issa Rae describes ‘do-it-yourself’ approach to success