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It is with deep sadness that we mourn the passing of David Bordwell. Professor Bordwell’s contributions to film theory and history have been instrumental in shaping our understanding of cinema as an art form and storytelling practice.
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(1/4) It is with heavy hearts and deep sadness that the Society for Cinema and Media Studies mourns the passing of esteemed scholar and mentor, Ana López. Ana's research on Latin American and Latino film and cultural studies has left an indelible mark on our field.
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With heavy hearts, SCMS remembers and honors Patricia Zimmermann, a remarkable scholar, mentor, and programmer whose legacy in the world of film & media studies is immeasurable. As the Charles A. Dana Professor of Screen Studies at Ithaca College...
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SCMS mourns the passing of John Fiske, an influential theorist, and mentor to many of our members. We send our condolences to the family, friends, and colleagues of John.
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SCMS was saddened to learn of the passing of Steve Neale—critic, theorist and historian of cinema. A special tribute to him will be featured in our next NewsBrief.
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The Media History Digital Library has a new website! We've added over 1,000 Hollywood pressbooks, tripled the amount of non-English language content, enhanced the interface, and eliminated the delay between digitization to user access. Free to all.
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The SCMS Board of Directors and its Officers stand in solidarity with survivors of sexual assault and harassment. SCMS will not tolerate any harassing behavior by our members, board members, committees, or any other entity affiliated with the Society.
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SCMS congratulates Maggie Hennefeld from University of Minnesota, Twin Cities on receiving the 2023 Best Essay in an Edited Collection Award for "Queer Laughter in the Archives of Silent Film Comedy,” The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema (Oxford University Press, 2021)
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Congratulations to Eliza Steinbock, from Leiden University, recipient of the 2020 Best First Book Award for “Shimmering Images: Trans Cinema, Embodiment, and the Aesthetics of Change”!
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(1/2)Caetlin, we recognize and applaud your years of dedication and tireless service as editor of JCMS. Your leadership on the Board and alongside an incredible JCMS team has brought innovation, equity and many more contributions that have had a positive impact on the membership.
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SCMS congratulates Kiki Loveday from University of California, Santa Cruz on receiving the 2023 Dissertation Award for “Sapphic Cinemania! Female Authorship, Queer Desires and the Birth of Cinema".
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The Society for Cinema and Media Studies strongly condemns police violence and acts of hatred against African Americans across the United States. We stand in solidarity with Black scholars, educators, and students. We ask you to join us in this work.
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SCMS congratulates Jacqueline Stewart, the recipient of the 2024 DCAA. A special event honoring Dr. Stewart will take place at the SCMS 65th Annual Conference in Boston, MA, on March 15th.
For more information, please click the link below.
#SCMS24
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(1/3) A special thank you to this year's Program Chair, Alfred L. Martin, Jr. for his brilliant work on this year’s conference!
Much gratitude also goes to the SCMS Program Committee for providing volunteer service that ensures the success of our conference and organization.
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We mourn the immeasurable loss of Pearl Bowser, a luminary in the world of cinema and recipient of the SCMS Distinguished Career Achievement Award (2005).
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SCMS is proud to announce that Jinsook Kim has been awarded a 2024 ACLS Fellowship. The ACLS Fellowship Program supports scholars who are poised to make original and significant contributions to knowledge in any field of the humanities or interpretive social sciences.
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Thank you for attending
#SCMS22
. Session recordings are available to all registered conference attendees through April 30, 2022, so please continue to enjoy your colleagues' hard work post-conference!
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The Richard Wall Memorial Award from the Theatre Library Association will be awarded to Ross Melnick for Hollywood’s Embassies: How Movie Theaters Projected American Power Around the World (Columbia University Press). Eric Hoyt's Ink-Stained Hollywood has won Special Jury Prize!
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(1/2) With escalating Covid infections and uncertainty around Omicron, the SCMS Board is deliberating the best path forward for its members for Chicago 2022. Please watch the video below for an update from the Board of Directors.
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SCMS member Julie Turnock, Professor of Media and Cinema Studies, Uni of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has been awarded a 2023 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. Turnock’s project is “Beyond King Kong: Special Effects in the Hollywood Studio Era, 1915-1965."
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On this, what would’ve been the final day of the 2020 conference—we hope you, your family, friends, colleagues, and students are staying healthy and well. We look forward to brighter days ahead.
#SCMS21
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Congrats also to Mary Celeste Kearney (University of Notre Dame) who has recently won an NEH Fellowship. Kearney's project explores the 1st wave of U.S. teen-girl entertainment, with a focus on narrative, visual, and sound design. Her book will be published by the UT Press.
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SCMS is immensely saddened by the devastating loss of bell hooks. hooks influenced an immeasurable expanse of SCMS members’ teaching, research, and way of moving through the world. We invite SCMS members to reflect and share how hooks influenced their practice.
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SCMS mourns the loss of Lauren Berlant, prodigious theorist and scholar. Our condolences to colleagues, friends, and family grieving this devastating loss.
More about their work here:
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1/5 SCMS mourns the loss of a luminary on the passing of Edward Sykes "Ned" Comstock. For over 43 years, Ned graced USC’s Cinema Arts Library, embodying the essence of dedication and generosity.
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Please read the full announcement from the SCMS Board of Directors for more information about the 2021 Conference.
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SCMS is proud to congratulate former Board member Professor Jacqueline Stewart, the first African American —
and first film scholar — to host a show on Turner Classic Movies! We can’t wait for
#SilentSundayNights
!
@ProfJStewart
@tcm
@SCMStudies
#SCMS20
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The SCMS Board of Directors is very pleased to announce more details about our upcoming 2022 conference. Please check your email or visit our website to read the full announcement and check out our FAQs.
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SCMS congratulates Jinsook Kim from the University of Pennsylvania on receiving the 2021 Honorable Mention in the Dissertation Award category for, "Contesting Hate: Online Misogyny and Networked Anti-Hate Feminist Activism in South Korea"
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(1/6) As previously announced, the SCMS Board has deliberated to determine the best path forward for the 2022 conference.
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SCMS congratulates Bo Ruberg from University of California, Irvine, on receiving the 2023 Anne Friedberg Innovative Scholarship Award for "Sex Dolls at Sea: Imagined Histories of Sexual Technologies" (MIT Press, 2022)
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The results are in! Congratulations to our 2021 award winners and thank you to all who submitted their work this past summer.
A full list of results is available here:
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The SCMS Board supports the following statement by the Precarious Labor Organization (PLO) on the UCSC graduate student strike.
Read more here:
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SCMS congratulates Christian Keathley and Jason Mittell from Middlebury College on receiving the 2020 Innovative Pedagogy Award.
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SCMS mourns the passing of Past President, Stephen Prince. He will be so greatly missed by family, friends, and colleagues. Carl Plantinga and Malcolm Turvey offer this tribute:
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SCMS congratulates Brian Jacobson from the California Institute of Technology on receiving the 2021 Best Edited Collection Award for "In the Studio: Visual Creation and its Material Environments".
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(1/2)News about
#SCMS24
! Acceptance notices are out, registration is now open! Book your hotel accommodations, sign up to volunteer as a panel chair, apply for travel grants & dependent care subsidies (if eligible),
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SCMS congratulates the Editors of JCMS 2018-2022 on receiving the 2023 Collective Distinguished Service Award. 👏🎊
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The Society for Cinema and Media Studies mourns the passing of Jane Feuer.
A touching tribute by Mimi White and Matthew Tinkcom is available here:
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Excellent news! Huge congratulations to SCMS Board Member Racquel Gates and Rebecca Prime for being named 2020 Academy Film Scholars by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Read the full announcement here:
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Check out the latest Fieldnotes interview featuring Herman Gray, interviewed by Racquel Gates here:
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Due to technical issues with the virtual conference platform this weekend, online access to view recorded materials will be extended to March 31, 2021. If attendees are having issues accessing the platform, please try clearing your cache.
#SCMS21
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Huge thanks to Paula J. Massood, Alisa Perren, Jennifer Fuller, Alfred L. Martin, Jr., and Joseph Roskos for their outstanding service as board members. Your dedication and contributions have made a lasting impact.
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Hello Denver! Day 1 of
#SCMS23
is here and we're thrilled to welcome all attendees. Let's network, learn, and have a blast!
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Mark your calendars! We look forward to seeing you in Denver next year! The conference will be held from Wednesday, April 12 to Saturday, April 15 at the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel.
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The recording of yesterday's roundtable "Teaching Online" and relevant resources are now available here:
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SCMS is saddened to learn of the passing of Thomas Elsaesser. A more detailed tribute will be posted, but until then we'd like to share Professor Elsaesser's Fieldnotes interview, conducted by former SCMS President, Patrice Petro.
Audio version:
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(1/7) It is with heavy hearts that SCMS commemorates the life of Maggie Rossman. Maggie was just a few years into her first tenure-track job at Bellarmine University in Louisville when her life was cut short.
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SCMS is proud to congratulate former Board member Professor Jacqueline Stewart on being named Chief Artistic and Programming Officer for the newly restored and expanded Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. She will oversee exhibitions, programming, and education.
Welcome to the museum team JACQUELINE STEWART. Tap here to meet our new Chief Artistic and Programming Officer:
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SCMS looks forward to returning to in-person conferences starting with Chicago in 2022. At this stage of the planning process for next year’s conference, we are considering two options and would like your input. Please fill out the survey here:
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SCMS congratulates Kaveh Askari from Michigan State University on receiving the 2023 Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award for "Relaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran: Material Cultures in Transit" (University of California Press, 2022)
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(1/2) SCMS is committed to fostering equitable and respectful job search processes. With the following statement, SCMS emphasizes the need for empathy and fairness in job searches, recognizing the challenges faced by applicants.
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We received over 1200 submissions for
#SCMS24
. The Conference Program Committee has begun the task of reviewing the proposals. Accept/Decline notifications are typically sent in mid-November.
You can read more about the evaluation process here:
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Accept/decline notices for
#SCMS2024
will be sent out soon! Keep an eye on your inboxes and thank you for your patience.
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SCMS congratulates Haidee Wasson from Concordia University, Montréal on receiving the 2022 Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award for "Everyday Movies: Portable Film Projectors and the Transformation of American Culture” (University of California Press, 2020).
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(1/5) SCMS mourns the passing of Sean O'Sullivan. Sean’s scholarly work connected the fields of film, television, narrative theory, nineteenth-century British literature, and serial storytelling.
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SCMS congratulates Jinsook Kim from the University of Texas at Austin on receiving the 2020 First Place in the Student Writing Award category for, “Sticky Feminist Activism: The Gangnam Station Murder Case and Sticky Note Activism Against Misogyny and Femicide”
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SCMS congratulates Juan Llamas-Rodriguez (
@AnnenbergPenn
) for their recently published book Border Tunnels: A Media Theory of the US-Mexico Underground (
@UMinnPress
)!
@llamasjr
recently spoke with
@bkwilliams21
about the book on
@reverb_cast
:
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Congratulations to SCMS members Courtney Brannon Donoghue, Jason Mittell, and Ariel Rogers, all part of this year's NEH grant recipients for their own respective projects.
Read more below to see a full list of grantees.
Today:
@NEHgov
announces $24.7 million in new
#NEHgrant
awards to support 208 humanities projects nationwide.
Grants will support
#humanities
initiatives at college campuses, innovative digital resources, infrastructure projects, and more:
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Congratulations to Elizabeth Ellcessor and Bo Ruberg, the next co-editors of JCMS!
Big news alert!!! 🥳🥳Please join us in welcoming
@trilliz
and
@MyOwnVelouria
as the next Co-Editors of JCMS. Committed to diversity, outreach, open access and online initiatives, and the various needs of
@SCMStudies
membership, they will serve a five year term from January 2023.
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Congratulations to Christina Lane for being the recipient of an NEH grant for "Naughty Ladies: How Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland and the Women at Warner Bros. Upended Hollywood"
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SCMS sends deep sympathies to his wife, Kristin Thompson. David and Kristin married in 1979 and collaborated on the widely acclaimed textbooks Film Art (1979, currently in its twelfth edition) and Film History (1994, currently in its fifth edition).
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The SCMS Executive Board asks you to answer the following questions so that we can make an informed decision about our plans for our April Conference. The survey will close at end at Mon, Mar 9th at midnight (US CT).
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The conference submission portal is now open! Click here to access it:
The deadline to submit proposals is August 31 at 5 PM Central Time.
If you have any conference questions, check out our conference FAQs or contact the Home Office.
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Join us for a special event screening to celebrate the work and life of lesbian experimental and documentary filmmaker, Barbara Hammer. This screening will showcase a range of her work and will conclude with an open discussion moderated by Sarah Keller and Ron Gregg.
#SCMS21
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Kristen Warner will be presenting "Black Audience Labor for Naught: The Long-Term Problem with Embracing Plasticity as Meaningful Representation" at the U of Iowa on 10/27 at 3:30PM local time! The talk will also be streamed on Zoom.
Read more here:
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SCMS congratulates Karen Redrobe from the University of Pennsylvania and Jeff Scheible from King's College London on receiving the 2022 Best Edited Collection Award for “Deep Mediations: Thinking Space in Cinema and Digital Cultures” (University of Minnesota Press, 2021).
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🎧 Tune in to this week's NPR podcast featuring Kristen Warner and Shelley Stamp as they discuss film history, women, race, media, and representation. Listen for some smart, historical, and astute analysis. 🎥
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SCMS congratulates Rebecca Wanzo from the Washington University in St. Louis on receiving the 2021 Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award for "The Content of Our Caricature: African American Comic Art and Political Belonging".
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SCMS congratulates Elizabeth Alsop (CUNY School of Professional Studies) who has been awarded a 2022 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend to support the writing of her book on the films of Elaine May.
Read the full announcement here:
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Members,
We at SCMS recognize the past few weeks have been tough for many of our friends and colleagues, not only due to the challenges of a new semester beginning, but also with the stresses of evacuations from wildfires, hurricanes, flooding, and the ongoing pandemic.
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SCMS congratulates Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky from the University of Chicago on receiving the 2021 Best First Book Award for "The Process Genre: Cinema and the Aesthetic of Labor".
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Congratulations to Jinsook Kim for being the recipient of an NEH grant for "Sticky Activism: Online Misogyny and Feminist Activism in South Korea".
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The schedule for the 2021 virtual conference is now available! You can see it and submit corrections by visiting this page:
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SCMS congratulates Peter Labuza from the University of Southern California on receiving the 2021 Dissertation Award, "When A Handshake Meant Something: Lawyers, Deal Making, and the Emergence of New Hollywood"
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SCMS's first-ever virtual event was a big success! Our 2021 attendance numbers were 2401. A total of 570 meetings and sessions were presented and the conference platform was visited 373,921 times.
We are looking forward to seeing you next year in Chicago!
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Congratulations to Mal Ahern from
@UW
and Amanda Shubert from
@UWMadison
for being named 2023 ACLS fellows! This prestigious award recognizes their exceptional scholarship and contributions to the humanities. Well done!
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SCMS congratulates Chenshu Zhou from the University of Pennsylvania on receiving the 2022 Best First Book Award for “Cinema Off Screen: Moviegoing in Socialist China” (University of California Press, 2021).
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Head over to to see the brand new website for JCMS and read the first digital issue!
We are thrilled to announce the launch of the JCMS website and our the first digital issue 🥳 Let’s celebrate the team whose vision made JCMS accessible, diverse, and digital during the pandemic! 🥳
@SCMStudies
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SCMS congratulates Darshana Mini for The Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities awarded by the American Institute of Indian Studies for her book Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India, UC Press, 2024
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Huge congratulations to SCMS member/JCMS Associate Co-Editor of Outreach and Equity, Samantha N. Sheppard for being named 2021 Academy Film Scholar by AMPAS. We would also like to congratulate film scholar, J.E. Smyth on this achievement. Read more here:
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As a foundational figure in film studies, Bordwell helped bring a more grounded understanding of cinema, historically and aesthetically, with over fifteen volumes spanning subjects such as classical Hollywood cinema, historical poetics, film history, and East Asian film style.
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We're pleased to announce the winners of the 2022 SCMS Awards. Congratulations! Deepest appreciation to everyone who served on an Award Committee this year. Your labor & contributions are greatly appreciated.
Read the full announcement here:
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Congratulations to Sarah Street and Joshua Yumibe for winning the 2020 Katherine Singer Kovács book award for their book titled "Chromatic Modernity: Color, Cinema, and Media of the 1920s".
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Congratulations to Laura Isabel Serna for being the recipient of an NEH grant for "Cinematic Alchemy: The Mexican Film Industry during Mexico’s Golden Age"
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(1/3) Accept/decline notices have not been sent out yet. At this moment, we are working to make sure the Virtual Symposium is a success, but rest assured, are trying to get notices out over the next week or two. Your patience is appreciated.
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SCMS congratulates Jennifer Blaylock from Oberlin College on receiving the 2023 Katherine Singer Kovács Essay Award for "‘Who wants a BlackBerry these days?’ Serialized new media and its trash", Screen, Volume 62, Issue 2, Summer 2021, Pages 156–172
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SCMS Members,
Please read the communication from SCMS regarding two important changes to the usual summer deadlines for conference proposal submissions and membership renewals.
Access it here:
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(2/6) After monitoring worldwide developments related to COVID-19 over the past few months, the Board has determined that going virtual in 2022 represents the best option for the broadest participation of our membership in this year’s conference.
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