SACAPALOOZA - SAC's Undergraduate Declaration Event
November 3, 2016
North Quad, Studio A
11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
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If you are interested in declaring a Screen Arts & Cultures major or a Global Media Studies minor and/or you just want to learn more about what these academic programs offer, join us at SACapalooza!
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Julia Sonnevend's Book Launch: Stories Without Borders: The Berlin Wall and the Making of a a Global Iconic Event
Thursday, November 3, 2016
Literati Bookstore
7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
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Professor Sonnevend (UM, Communication Studies) will be joined in conversation by Professor William Uricchio (MIT, Comparative Literature)
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What comes to be known and seen as a global iconic event? Focusing on news coverage of the fall of the Berlin Wall and on contemporary retellings of the event, Julia Sonnevend discusses how storytellers build up certain events so that people remember them for a
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long time. The East German border opening that we know as the "fall of the Berlin Wall" was, in fact, unintentional, confusing, and prompted in part by misleading media coverage of bureaucratic missteps. But its global message is not about luck or accident or happenstance in history. Incarnated as a global iconic event, the fall of the Berlin Wall has come to communicate the momentary power that ordinary people can have. The event's story, branded as a simple phrase, a short narrative and a recognizable visual scene, provides people from China to Israel to the United States with a powerful social myth. This myth shapes our debates about separation walls and fences, borders, and refugees, and the possibilities of human freedom to this day.
For more information, including biographies of Julia Sonnevend and WIlliam Uricchio, please click here.
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This event is organized by the Global Media Studies Initiative and sponsored by the Department of Communication Studies with support from the Sheldon Cohn Fund in the Department of Screen Arts & Cultures.
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Screen Arts & Cultures Presents
Film and TV Producer Sara Colleton
Open Discussion on Producing TV and Film
Thursday, November 3, 2016
Chem Building, Room 1300
8:00 p.m.
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Sara Colleton served as an Executive Producer on Dexter since its inception (2005) and through its eight-year run. The series has been nominated for a remarkable 77 awards, while Colleton has received
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three PGA and Emmy nominations as the executive producer of the series. Colleton also produced the feature film The Painted Veil starring Edward Norton and Naomi Watts, released by Warner Independent Films. In 2002, she received a Golden Globe and Emmy nomination for Live from Baghdad for HBO Films, which earned Sara the David L. Wolper Producer of the Year Award from the Producer’s Guild of America. Ms. Colleton also produced Riding in Cars with Boys, starring Drew Barrymore and directed by Penny Marshall for Sony Pictures. Renaissance Man, Colleton's first film, written by SAC's Director of Screenwriting Jim Burnstein and also directed by Penny Marshall, was made at Touchstone Pictures with Mark Wahlberg and Danny Devito.
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LRCCS Film Series – “Night Scene”
After Film Discussion with S.E. Kile and Markus Nornes
Saturday, November 12, 2016
Angell Hall, Auditorium A
7:00 – 10:00 p.m.
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Cui Zi’en’s "Night Scene" takes on one of the biggest taboos in contemporary China: male street prostitution. The gripping story follows a boy who discovers his father’s homosexuality and, in the process, discovers his own. “Night Scene” is a unique portrait of a twilight world in parks and clubs that veers between documentary and fiction. Cui Zi'en mixes real gigolos with actors, while making no strict distinction between homosexuals and prostitutes. It is an ambiguous, layered film, just as boundless as the lives of male prostitutes in China.
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THIS WEEK'S FEATURED PHOTOS
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photo credit, Mary Lou Chlipala
Director of Screenwriting Jim Burnstein introduces Academy Award Nominated Producer Gary Gilbert (at left), who visited UM on Friday, October 21, 2016, to conduct an open discussion on the Film and TV Industry.
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Associate Professors Daniel Herbert and Sheila Murphy show off their holiday spirit as they assume each other's identities in honor of Halloween.
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