Visiting Filmmakers Series at Mason

Visiting Filmmakers Series at Mason See your world differently. If you want to consider how images do their work, consider a minor in Film & Media Studies.

Images in movies, on television, and on the net move and inspire us, structure our ideas of race, class, gender, and sexuality, community and identity. The GMU minor in Film & Media studies explores mass culture in its visual manifestations and helps students develop an informed awareness of culture and media, ideological tendencies, and effects on daily experience. Committed to interdisciplinarit

y, the program addresses the increasing complexity and multiplicity of visual cultures and offers students the tools with which to read a variety of texts, including film, television, video, and new media. Most course work is offered through the Departments of Communication and English, with other courses available through the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, AVT, and Film and Video Studies. The two required courses provide an introduction to the languages of film and popular media and modes of analysis appropriate to each. They are prerequisites for all advanced work in the minor. Students select four additional courses designed to introduce a more specialized level of study. Students may decide to focus on film, television, or the study of mass culture, or they may choose some mix of courses that suits their interests.

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02/26/2025

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Posted • Calling all FAVS juniors and seniors! We are hosting a FAVS 450: Internship Virtual Information Session.Monda...
02/26/2025

Posted • Calling all FAVS juniors and seniors! We are hosting a FAVS 450: Internship Virtual Information Session.

Monday March 3
6:30-7:30pm
Virtual Event: Zoom

Join Professor Rebekah Wingert-Jabi and Academic Advisor Maddie Portnoy to learn more about the FAVS 450 internship requirement and the process for enrolling, discuss tips for your internship search, and hear from FAVS students about their internship experiences.

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Posted • The Board of Visitors (BOV) is the most powerful governing body at George Mason University. In light of recen...
02/26/2025

Posted • The Board of Visitors (BOV) is the most powerful governing body at George Mason University.

In light of recent federal policy changes and threats to critical higher education programs, it is more important than ever to pay attention to those in power— starting here on our campus. The BOV is the most influential actor shaping our student experience at George Mason, and we must ensure our voice leads every discussion. Check out this guide to learn more.

These are our tuition dollars, this is our community, this our university.

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Thrilled to have a local Connection | Isolation screening with two participants and G and so many crew members! Monday F...
02/16/2025

Thrilled to have a local Connection | Isolation screening with two participants and G and so many crew members! Monday Feb 17th at 6pm on the Fairfax Campus of George Mason University in the Johnson Center Cinema. Free and masked event! Sponsored by and more! PLUS a workshop on Trans and Q***r Storytelling with G and Dani Taylor who is both a participant and helped originate the project.
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A free screening of “Connection | Isolation” followed by a Q&A with Director/Producer G. Chesler (they/them), Professor ...
02/10/2025

A free screening of “Connection | Isolation” followed by a Q&A with Director/Producer G. Chesler (they/them), Professor of Film and Video Studies.

Join this event on February 17 at 6 pm!

With the support of the OSCAR FWSRA program, a group of undergraduate research assistants had the opportunity to participate in this film production project!
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Looking for a powerful read this Black History Month? 📚 Dive into stories that celebrate Black resilience, history, and ...
02/08/2025

Looking for a powerful read this Black History Month? 📚 Dive into stories that celebrate Black resilience, history, and excellence—from classic works to contemporary voices that continue to shape the world. Whether you’re exploring powerful memoirs, historical narratives, or thought-provoking essays, there’s always more to learn and appreciate. What’s on your reading list this month? Drop your recommendations below! 👇🏾
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Each semester, the Visiting Filmmakers Series at Mason brings to campus a variety of films and directors. Our first guest, in 1995, was Cheryl Dunye: she inspired us to “make our own history.”

Since then, our programs include: Cameraperson and Kirsten Johnson, Whose Streets? and Sabaah Foyalan, Hooligan Sparrow with Nanfu Wang, The Unafraid and with Heather Courtney, Dark Money and Kimberly Reed, Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland, with Kate Davis and David Heilbroner, In the Last Days of the City with Tamer El Said, In Lorton's Darkroom with filmmaker and photographer Karen Ruckman, producer Emma Pearce, and photographers Calvin Gorham and Michael Moses El, Road Through War with Louie Palu, Visitor's Day (Día de Visita) with Nicole Opper, 13th with cinematographer Hans Charles, City of Trees with Brandon and Lance Kramer, A Conversation with Christine Vachon, and Field Ni**as, with Khalik Allah.

See full list here: https://fams.gmu.edu/film-media-studies-visiting-filmmakers-series