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Film Studies faculty in the English Department offer a BA in Liberal Arts in Film Studies. Film faculty also oversee M.A. and Ph.D. theses in the English Department's graduate program. The Film Studies Program offers the study and appreciation of cinema and supports research in film criticism and theory, film history, and audience reception. It also sponsors lectures in film and media  by distinguished  scholars through the DeRoy Lecture Series and the annual Dennis Turner Memorial Lecture.

 

The Film Studies curriculum teaches  students the opportunity to examine cinema as a visual and narrative art form, as an increasingly global social force, as an industry, and as a technology-intensive communications medium. Its various courses introduce the study of cinema to a broad student audience (thereby fulfilling General Education requirements), serve as requirements for the Radio-TV major, and offer advanced work for those who wish to major or minor in Film Studies, to complement other majors, or to concentrate on the cinema while pursuing the MA and PhD. 

 

In the Detroit Metropolitan area, Film Studies faculty regularly serve as speakers and advisors to community groups, to other educational institutions at all levels, to the Detroit Institute of Arts, and to local mass media. Within the larger scholarly community, faculty serve on editorial boards and as manuscript readers, as officers of such professional associations as the Society for Cinema Studies, and as evaluators of grant applications, tenure cases, and other professional endeavors.

 

 

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Interview with Bob Burgoyne conducted by Kirsten Thompson On November 4, 2009 Dr. Kirsten Thompson interviewed Dr. Robert Burgoyne who taught film classes at Wayne State University from 1983 to 2009 . Dr. Burgoyne now teaches at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. To read the entire transcript of the interview: http://www.clas.wayne.edu/unit-inner.asp?WebPageID=3357  Wayne State University Student Receives Screenwriting Fellowship Wayne State University student Antal Zambo has been selected to receive the Writers Guild of America, East Foundation's (WGAE Foundation) Michael Collyer Memorial Fellowship in Screenwriting. He will receive his honors during the 62nd annual awards ceremony on Feb. 20 at New York's Hudson Theatre.  Read more...

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