Every year, the Communication Arts department gives back to its students with a series of scholarships aimed to help Comm Arts’ hardest working majors. These scholarships are possible through the generosity of our alumni and friends. This week marks students’ last chance to apply for a trio of excellent opportunities: The Charline M. Wackman Award, …
Kent Jones will be in Madison this Thursday, April 18, giving a talk entitled “What is Authorship in Cinema?” at 4 p.m. in Vilas Hall 4070. Jones is a prominent film critic and filmmaker, and holds an important place in American film culture as Director of Programming for the New York Film Festival. Emeritus Professor …
UW emeritus professor of film, David Bordwell, reflects upon his friendship with and the career of legendary film critic, Roger Ebert. Antenna Blog Post UW News Post
Communication Arts alum Adam Schweitzer (’99) was recently named a winner of the Wisconsin Alumni Association’s “Forward Under 40” award. With Dar Rollins, another UW graduate, he is a partner at International Creative Management (ICM), one of the largest talent agencies in the world. It all started out in his film classes and in the …
There are many ways to spend one’s retirement. Some buy a timeshare in Palm Springs, some sign up for weekly bridge games, but if you are UW-Madison graduate Donna Remmert, you self-publish a trilogy of coming-of-age novels instead. Author of “The Littlest Big Kid,” “The Jitterbug Girl,” and “Head Over Heels,” Donna Remmert has found …
Every other Wednesday at noon, listen to Professor Karma Chavez’s voice reach far past her classroom on WORT-FM 89.9’s “A Public Affair.” “A Public Affair” is a daily, hour-long segment that “aims to engage listeners in a conversation on social, cultural, and political issues of importance,” WORT 89.9’s website reports, featuring interviews with guests ranging …
“The PhB was a godsend for me,” says Loring Mandel (class of ’49). “It enabled me to put together a program of courses that kept me happy and active… I loved my time at UW.” The Communication Arts Department has produced many successful graduates over the years, but perhaps none so diversely talented as Loring …
Communication Arts teaching will go online in summer 2014, thanks to the efforts of Professor Sara McKinnon and Dr. Sarah Jedd. Both instructors won Distance Education Initiative grants from the Division of Continuing Studies/Summer Sessions to develop online versions of their highly successful introductory courses. Prof. McKinnon’s CA 260, Communication and Human Behavior, is a …
Winter in Nottingham, England is on the agenda of Professor Michele Hilmes next year. She is the recipient of a prestigious Fulbright Research Fellowship to be spent at the University of Nottingham, one of the UK’s top ten universities. There she will work with the faculty in the Department of Culture, Film, and Media as …
Saturday, January 27 marked the end of Sundance Film Festival 2013 and the announcement of the prizewinners. Among them was Communication Arts alumna Jill Soloway, class of ’87, who received the Directing Award in the Dramatic Competition for her debut feature Afternoon Delight. The film, which was also written by Soloway, is a dark comedy …