Film and Convergence Media Explored in Free Speakers Series at UCLA School

A series of nine free lectures in the fall and winter quarters at UCLA will investigate the emergence (and convergence) of the most exciting new media technologies, from MySpace and YouTube to video gaming and cell phone “Mobisodes.” The challenges and opportunities these forms represent for ‘old media’ such as theatrical motion pictures and television, and the even more integrated variations that are already on the horizon, will also be considered.

The series is sponsored by the Critical Studies Program of the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

WHEN: 5 to 7 p.m. on Wednesdays, Oct. 18, 2006 to February 28, 2007.

WHERE: The Design Room, Melnitz Hall, Room 2534, on the UCLA campus.

BACKGROUND: Under the leadership of professor and vice-chair John Caldwell, author of “Televisuality, Electronic Media and Technoculture, New Media,” the Critical Studies Program has given rise to a distinctive ‘school’ of criticism in the volatile field known as convergence media, the rapidly shifting terrain in which cinema, television and new media meet, mate and mutate. Caldwell curated this unique speakers series in order to “begin to intelligently map the wide-ranging and unruly changes that are now blurring traditional borders between film, television, and digital media.”

SPEAKERS: Leading scholars and theorists in Critical Studies whose work has emphasized the intersections of, and interactions among, disparate forms of media.

ANNE FRIEDBERG, chair/professor, Critical Studies Division, School of Cinema Television, USC, author of “Window Shopping: Cinema and the Postmodern” (October 18).

MICHAEL RENOV, associate dean/professor, School of Cinema/Television, USC, author of “Collecting Visible Evidence, Theorizing Documentary” (October 25).

TRACY FULLERTON, visiting assistant professor, Interactive Media Division, USC, author of “Game Design Workshop: Designing, Prototyping, and Playtesting Games” (November 15).

HENRY JENKINS, director/professor, Comparative Media Studies, MIT, author of “Convergence Culture” (January 17).

LEV MANOVICH, professor of New Media/Director, Lab for Cultural Analysis, University of California, San Diego, author of
“The Language of New Media” (January 24).

LYNN SPIGEL, chair and professor, Screen Cultures Department, Northwestern University, author of “Television After TV” (February 7).

BARBARA KLINGER, professor, University of Indiana, author of “Beyond the Big Screen: Cinema New Media Technologieas and the Home” (February 14).

JOSTEIN GRIPSRUD, professor, University of Bergen, Norway, director, EuroMedia, author of “Understanding Media Culture” (February 21).

PETER LUNENFELD, director, Digital Media Program, Art Center College of Design, author of “Snap to Grid: A User’s Guide to Digital Arts” (February 28).

COST: Admission is free. Seating is limited. Parking on campus in Lot 3 costs $8.

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