Month: January 2026
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Soraya Murray: Technothriller: Film and the American Imagination
In Technothriller, Soraya Murray reveals how popular American films after the 1960s, in which technology assumes a central role—mainly biotech, military, and computational—channel our cultural anxieties, dreams, and convictions about the power and meaning of advanced technology. Along with iconic adaptations from technothriler novels by Tom Clancy and Michael Crichton, such as The Hunt for Red…
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Visual & Media Cultures and Colloquia: Yiman Wang
“Of Science and Propaganda: Experiments with Revolution in Mao’s China” Date: Wednesday, February 4, 2026Time: 4:00pm-5:30pmLocation: Porter College, D245 Science, especially everyday popular science in Mao’s China, could be understood as grandiose and banal experiments conjoining socio-political revolution, authority legitimization with cinematic education, and with laboratory and field research. Science education and “thought” (re)education went…
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Processing Pleasure: Public Talk and Discussion with Dr. Patrick Keilty
This event is sponsored by the Film and Digital Media Department. Date: Tuesday, January 27th, 2026Time: 5:00pm-6:30pmLocation: Communications Building Room 150 (Studio C) This talk examines the early history of electronic payment processing, as told by the engineers who developed the technology in the 1980s. Struggling to find a suitable customer for the invention, they…
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QUEER/TRANS PERFORMANCE: A Film Series
FREE AND OPEN TO ALL! Date and Time: Mondays at 7:00pmLocation: Communications Building Room 150 (Studio C) Come watch classic and contemporary films about queer and trans performance. These films are key texts for THEA 161M: Sexuality, Gender, Drama & Performance, taught by Prof. Ochoa. We’ll be screening and discussing them in community, so come…
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Wednesday Night Cinema Society
Join us every Wednesday for an evening of films and videos, curated by our graduate students. Cinema Society meets every Wednesday during the quarter at 7pm in Communications 150 (Studio C). Check the FDM Events google calendar for specific dates.