Frames Per Second

A film related blog, a place to post images and information related to the Film Studies Program at Wayne State University. However I might stray once and awhile and post about chocolate, tea or coffee.

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Colin Gardner lecture at Wayne State University, Friday, April 24 at 3pm in the English Department Conference Room 10302 located at 5057 Woodward Avenue.

Colin Gardner is Professor of Critical Theory and Integrative Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he teaches in the departments of Art, Film & Media Studies, Comparative Literature, and the History of Art and Architecture. Gardner has published two books in Manchester University Press’s “British Film Makers” series: Joseph Losey, and Karel Reisz. His latest book is “Beckett, Deleuze and the Televisual Event: Peephole Art,” a critical analysis of Samuel Beckett’s experimental work for film and television and its relation to the philosophical writings of Deleuze and Guattari. This lecture is brought to you by The Visual Culture Working Group and the DeRoy Lecture Series at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.

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New for Fall 2015! ENG 5075 Topics in New Media: Feeling Networked/Networked Feeling with Dr. Scott Richmond. Class meets Tuesdays and Thursdays 4:30 to 5:50pm 

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The 2015 Dennis Turner Memorial Lecture

Linda Williams, University of California at Berkeley.

On The Wire

Friday, April 17 at 3:00 pm, Room 10302 in the Department of English, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan

Synopsis: Through the microcosm of one decaying American city, The Wire reveals the interconnected truths of many institutional failures: a rampant drug trade that police cannot curtail, the devaluation of work measured in declining unions, a cynical city government that raises and then crushes the hope of reform, the poignant waste of schools, and, finally, a media that cannot report on the truth of any of the above, let alone see the connections among them, although The Wire itself does. As sociologists Anmol Chaddha and William Julius Wilson write, The Wire “is part of a long line of literary works that are often able to capture the complexity of urban life in ways that have eluded many social scientists.”

Linda Williams is professor of Film and Media Studies and Rhetoric at the University of California at Berkeley. She is one of the most important working film scholars. She is the author of a great many articles and books across a widely varying array of topics in cinema and media studies, including Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the “Frenzy of the Visible,” Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O.J., Screening Sex, and, most recently, On The Wire.

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Save the date: DeRoy Lecture by Adam Kotsko "CREEPINESS" on Monday, Feb 23rd at 3pm in room 10302 (the 10th floor conference room). Adam Kotsko is the author of the pop-culture trilogy made up of "Awkwardness", "Why We Love Sociopaths" and" Creepiness." Check out Adam Kotsko's blog https://itself.wordpress.com

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Kino Club 313's student symposium on "Gender and Horror" will take place on Friday, February 13th beginning at 2:00 PM in room 10302 at 5057 Woodward (Maccabees). Presenters and titles can be found in our event description on our facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1441232179500564/

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ENG 5020: Media in Modern Culture: Experimental Media meets Tuesdays, 12:50 to 3:50 pm, taught by Scott Richmond.

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ENG 2440 Introduction to Visual Culture, Tuesday & Thursday, 9:35 to 11:00 am with Scott Richmond.

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This Winter 2015 sign up for ENG 5070: The Films of Stephen Frears taught by Dr. Les Brill. Class meets Monday and Wednesday, 4:30 to 7:15 pm.

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Registration for Winter 2015 classes has begun. Dr. Chera Kee will be teaching ENG 7005: Film Theory an introduction to some of the major concepts and movements in the theory of film and media studies.

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Are these the best 100 horror soundtracks? BFI's list:

http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/are-these-100-best-horror-soundtracks?utm_content=buffer4a225&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitterbfi&utm_campaign=buffer

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Eugenia Brinkema lecture "Violence and the Diagram (or the Human Centipede)"

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Tomorrow Tuesday, October 28th join our very own zombie expert Dr. Chera Kee for a talk on the history and lore of zombie culture at the historic Whitney's Ghost Bar, 5:30 to 8:00pm.http://events.wayne.edu/2014/10/28/knowledge-on-tap-the-history-lore-and-growth-of-zombie-culture-55413/

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Zombie Fridays At WSU continues with with a Halloween screening of the 1974 blaxploitation zombie film SUGAR HILL in 326 State Hall at 2pm, October 31st.

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Join Local zombie expert Dr. Chera Kee at Midtown Detroit's historic Ghost Bar for a talk on the history and lore of zombie culture.

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