The Department of Theatre & Film congratulates Ernest Mathijs on promotion to Full Professor
IN MEMORIAM, MARK HARRIS. Mark Harris, dedicated UBC Theatre & Film faculty member, dies at 62.
Theatre and Film Teaching Assistantships for 2013/2014 Academic Session.
Theatre and Film Sesional Teaching (Film Studies) for 2013/2014 Academic Session.
Cinephile's latest issue 8.2 Contemporary Extremism now available!
The Centre for Cinema Studies (CCS) at the University of British Columbia has launched an international audience survey on digital cinema.
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Associate Professor Ernest Mathijs Weighs in on Game of Thrones
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Students Seth Soulstein & Peter Lester published in SCOPE
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Congratulations to Jessica Hughes, who has been accepted to the PhD program at the University of Queensland in Australia. Jessica is a graduate of the MA in Film Studies program at UBC. Her master's thesis was entitled, "The Good, the Bad, the Thirsty: De-Mystification in the Postmodern Vampire Film." Congrats Jessica!
Collection Represents a Lifetime of Film Study: The family of retired UBC professor Aristides Gazetas has kindly donated a
collection of 56 film books to the UBC Department of Theatre and Film's film
library in the Visual Resources Centre.
Congratulations to Associate Professor Lisa Coulthard, who has been elected Chair of the Editorial Board and Managing Editor of the Canadian Journal of Film Studies.
Congratulations to UBC Theatre and Film Prof. Ernest Mathijs on the launch of his controversial new book "100 Cult Films".
Film Studies prof Ernest Mathijs interviewed on Zombie love!
"Cowboys and Aliens with Angst". Brent Stang, a former MA Film Studies' student and now a PhD student at SUNY, was interviewed by the Globe and Mail on the Western genre.
Film Studies Professor Brian McIlroy has recently received one of the new SSHRC Insight Development Grants for a project entitled “Screens in Vancouver: Cinemagoing and the City in 1914.”
"Drunk History and Displaced Vocality"
Lisa Coulthard
Starting as a web phenomena, making it onto HBO’s Funny or Die Presents and winning the 2010 Jury Prize for Short Film at the Sundance Film Festival, Derek Waters’ and John Konner’s Drunk History highlights the drama of American history, the convergence and transfer between media in our modern age and the hilarious potential of vocal displacement and incongruity.
>>Continue reading Professor Lisa Couthard's newest essay on FlowTV
“Vancouver has a film festival?” Ernest Mathijs and Diane Burgess are asked what they think in the Globe and Mail.
Time Wasted
Ernest Mathijs
"If film cultism today is only what William Bainbridge and Rodney Stark would call an ‘audience cult’ or ‘client cult’, and what Janet Staiger calls ‘visible fandom’ , if cult cinema’s current impulse is disconnected from the history of cultism, why do cult receptions of television and cinema not lose all of their appeal as a factor of resistance against the mainstreaming of culture?"
>>Continue reading Professor Ernest Mathijs' newest essay on FlowTV
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