Entertainment and Media Studies Archive
Roger Ebert’s Film Festival: A Space of Wonder.
Nathaniel Kohn and Kristi Amatucci, Roger Ebert’s Film Festival: A Space of Wonder. To be presented at the Reframing Film Festivals: Histories, Economies, Cultures International Film Studies Conference, University of […]
Booker T Mattison’s film “Ungubani (Who Are You?)”
Booker T Mattison‘s film “Ungubani (Who Are You?)” won ‘Best of Competition‘ in the Narrative Category of the BEA Festival of Media Arts. Garland McLaurin was the cinematographer on the film. […]
Right Here in Hollywood: The Greatest Story Ever Told, the American West and the American Film Worker
Abstract: The 1950s and 1960s saw a swell of films shot on location and abroad, often big-budget, widescreen epic films. These runaway productions represented a practical financial decision for Hollywood […]
Time’s Up (Again?): Transforming Hollywood’s Industrial Culture
Abstract: In the 1970s, almost fifty years before the “Time’s Up” movement, women in Hollywood unions organized “women’s committees” to counter institutional sexism and address rampant underemployment. While the unions […]
Garland McLaurin (Lecturer EMST) has been awarded his third Princess Grace Foundation Grant.
Garland McLaurin (Lecturer EMST) has been awarded his third Princess Grace Foundation Grant ($1,000) for a mid-career development class of his choosing. The Princess Grace Foundation continues the legacy of Princess […]
Booker T. Mattison was invited by the Writers Guild East in New York to participate in showrunner trainer for non-fiction shows in New York on November 16th and 17th.
Booker T. Mattison was invited by the Writers Guild East in New York to participate in showrunner trainer for non-fiction shows in New York on November 16th and 17th.
Editor of themed section: “Independent Media Centers 20 Years On”
Jay Hamilton is the editor of themed section: “Independent Media Centers 20 Years On.” Media, Culture & Society 42, no. 6 (September 2020). https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/mcsa/42/6
Booker T. Mattison’s film Bosniak screened at Morehouse College Human Rights Film Festival
Booker T. Mattison, His film Bosniak screened at the Morehouse College Human Rights Film Festival Thursday Oct 10th at 3:15p and at the Hampton University Film Festival, Hampton, VA Nov. 12th. […]
Actors and the Anti-Rerun Campaign
Abstract: The early 1970s marked a number of significant changes in the television landscape: new regulatory structures, the growth of cable, and shifts in programming including a steep rise in […]
Booker T. Mattison has been awarded a Special Funding Grant
Booker T. Mattison has been awarded a Special Funding Grant ($750) from the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts to support visual effects and film festival submission costs associated with […]