What do film director, screenwriter, and producer Michael Mann, movie producer Walter Mirisch, television producer, writer, and director Steven Levitan, screenwriters and directors Jerry Zucker and David Zucker, media executive Stephen Jarchow, author and popular cultural critic Nathan Rabin, documentarian Errol Morris, television and film director Lev L. Spiro, musician and record producer Butch Vig, …
Each semester, hundreds of undergraduates from across UW-Madison take Comm Arts 100, Introduction to Speech Composition. Part of the university’s Communication-A requirement, the course is designed to help students write and deliver effective speeches, as well as to understand the rhetorical principles of effective (and ethical) public discourse. During the semester, each student writes and …
The Comm Arts department is pleased to announce the addition of Amy Schultz as an Undergraduate Advisor. Comm Arts continues to grow as one of the most popular majors on campus, and Amy arrives as a great asset to help our faculty and staff meet the academic and career advising needs of our more than …
What is the current state of the entertainment industry? How have new technologies and changes in business models affected film and television as we have come to know them? These are some of the issues that Stephen P. Jarchow, Chairman of Here Media and Regent Entertainment, will discuss during a visit to campus on Tuesday, …
The 2012 Wisconsin Film Festival kicks off today, Wednesday, April 18th. The festival will run for five days (April 18-22), showing more than 150 films on nine screens spread throughout the city of Madison. Now in its fourteenth year, the WFF, which is the largest campus-based film festival in the United States, is co-presented by …
This past January, UW-Madison senior and Comm Arts major Colton James Boettcher made public a music video promoting the pro-gay, anti-discrimination message of the It Gets Better Project. An elaborate dance production set to the Lady Gaga song “Hair,” the video was posted online through YouTube and quickly went viral. Within a matter of hours, …
A few weeks ago, Comm Arts Professor Catalina Toma was interviewed on the Joy Cardin show on Wisconsin Public Radio’s (WPR) Ideas Network, where she spoke at length about her research on self-presentation and deception in online dating. Professor Toma has published a number of scholarly articles on this topic, most recently in the Journal of Communication and New …
If you are currently an undergraduate student majoring in Comm Arts, there are numerous scholarship and paid internship opportunities available to you. Among those currently on offer this semester are the Charline M. Wackman Awards, which are available to majors who are “bona fide residents of the State of Wisconsin” and who will be continuing students …
2012 may only be a little over a month old, but film Professor J.J. Murphy‘s year has been off to an incredibly busy start and it will only be getting busier in the next couple months. In January, some of Professor Murphy’s film work premiered in an exhibition, Limits of Photography, at the Museum of …
The Department of Communication Arts is pleased to announce that Mary K. Huelsbeck will be joining us as the new Assistant Director of the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research. She replaces Ben Brewster, who retired as the Center’s Assistant Director last year. Ms. Huelsbeck comes to the WCFTR from the Black Film Center/Archive …