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Department of Film, Television, and Media (FTVM)
Recent News
Filmmaker John Cameron Mitchell Leads New LSA Course
The Detroit News profiled actor and filmmaker John Cameron Mitchell and his new FTVM course focused on “Problemagic Cinema.”
LSA Alumna Secures Big Deal on “Shark Tank”
Julia Dixon (A.B. ’18) pitches her company, an AI platform that helps students navigate college admissions, and wins over multibillionaire investor Mark Cuban.
In the Department of Film, Television, and Media, we create and study the moving image as seen on multiple screens—on the big screens of movie palaces, the cineplex, the art house and the film festival; on small screens ensconced in mammoth fifties consoles and those of giant flat-screened visual glory. With a strong undergraduate curriculum of production and studies, a burgeoning doctoral program in film, television, and media and a faculty of award-winning scholars and media makers, the Department of Film, Television, and Media offers a vibrant intellectual and artistic community here in the Midwest/Great Lakes region.
