Kevin M. Flanagan received his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 2015 in English/film studies (dissertation - The British War Film, 1939-1980: Culture, History, and, Genre). A book based on this project, called War Representation in British Cinema and Television: From Suez to Thatcher, and B...
Past Event
Thursday, April 18, 2024 3:00 PM to 4:15 PM EDT
Johnson Center, 3rd Floor, Room B, also goes by Room 326
Screening at 3pm: Baldwin's abroad series features three films. This is the screening of the third one. The film will be followed by a Q&A with professors Keith Clark and Leeya Mehta Baldwin's N***** 1968, 46 minutes“In this riveting short documentary by pioneering Trinidadian-British filmma...
Lisa Gilman is Director of the Folklore Program and Professor of Folklore and English at George Mason University in the United States. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of American Folklore. Her research interests include intangible cultural heritage, performance, music, dance, trauma, w...
The Screen Cultures concentration provides formal, historical and theoretical frameworks for the understanding and appreciation of visual cultures. The introductory course to film studies focuses on formal characteristics and vocabulary of film, with attention to its historical and ideological dimens...
The minor in Screen Cultures explores mass culture in its visual manifestations and helps students develop an informed awareness of culture and media, ideological tendencies, and effects on daily experience. Committed to interdisciplinary studies, the program addresses the increasing complexity and m...
Mason’s English degree is not a conventional one. As an English major, you can study the poetry of Milton and learn to write digital poetry. You can specialize in Renaissance literature or modern world literature. You can take courses on the folklore of Mexico or the films of Bollywood. You can learn...
Presently, I’ve evolved to understand and embrace writing’s transformative ability to liberate. Writing allows us to confront, interrogate, plan, and reimagine what influences our past, present, and future through the lens of possibility. As a former writing instructor, assistant professor, and curre...
This article originally appeared in the Spring 2024 issue of English Matters, the English Department's twice-yearly newsmagazine. You can find the full issue here. In Spring 2023, Mason’s Film and Media Studies program was rebranded Screen Cultures, but more than a simple renaming, this shift recog...
Who is watching the watchers? (T)Error Wednesday 11 November at 4:30pm Johnson Center Cinema Free screening and discussion with Lyric R. Cabral (T)Error is the first documentary to place filmmakers on the ground during an active FBI counterterrorism sting operation. Through the perspectiv...
"What did it feel like, to keep so many secrets?" On 11 November 2015, Veteran's Day, the GMU Visiting Filmmakers Series hosted a screening of (T)Error, a documentary by Lyric R. Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe. Cabral, a photojournalist and first-time documentary filmmaker, was on hand for a Q&...
