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 …
CSI, The Good Wife, NCIS, Criminal Minds, The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men: the CBS network leads in primetime ratings with this stellar program line-up, under the direction of Kelly Kahl, Comm Arts alumn, and CBS Senior Executive Vice President for Primetime. For the last six years, selected Comm Arts majors have enjoyed …
When the lights went down on Friday, January 20th, for the UW Cinematheque’s first screening of 2012, viewers were treated to the best possible presentation of 35mm film to be found in the Madison region. During the winter break in December and January, new 35mm projectors from custom German designers Kinoton were installed in 4070 …
Comm Arts professor Jonathan Gray has published a new book that provides an overview of the academic field of television studies, including a survey of the discipline’s origins, central ideas, and key thinkers and works. The book, co-authored with Amanda Lotz of the University of Michigan, is suitably titled Television Studies and is included as …
Internships have become one of the most valuable resources available today for undergraduate students preparing for successful careers, especially in the media and entertainment industries. These positions are not only a form of on-the-job training, giving young Badgers real world experience that enhances their classroom learning, but they also allow students to make valuable industry …