Skip to Content

for

Prospective Students

Current Students

Alumni and Placements

Giving to the Department of Film, Television, and Media

FTVM Ph.D. Alumni

Sitemap

Sitemap

Sitemap

Department of Film, Television, and Media (FTVM)

Department of Film, Television, and Media (FTVM)

Faculty and Staff

Alumni and Friends

Alumni Spotlight

Giving to the Department of Film, Television, and Media

FTVM Ph.D. Alumni

FTVM Graduate Certificate Alumni

News and Events

Anna Garcia Wins Best of Festival Award at Lightworks

Screen Arts Mavericks & Makers Acquires New Collection

Film Studies Field Librarian Phil Hallman Shares UM Library's Newly Acquired Altman Awards

Tastemaker International: Ira Deutchman and the Art & Business of Independent Cinema

Screen Arts Mavericks & Makers Acquires Filmmaker Jonathan Demme's Personal Archive

Undergraduate News

UM Midnight Book Club Improv Comedy Wins Chicago Open Regional of College Improv Tournament

FTVM 403 Sketch Comedy Show: Ralph Live!

Disney Animator Matthias Lechner Visits U-M

TV Producer Shaw Brown Fulfills Michigan Oath Taken in 1995

FTVM Undergrads Receive Multiple Hopwood Honors This Year

FTVM Student Film GOOD COMPANY Wins Production Award

Recent Graduate Kristen Batko Continues to Reap Awards for Her Work

FTVM 423 Film THE DEJECTS Wins Multiple Awards

FTVM Welcomes New Majors and GMS Minors

Animator and UM Alum David Knott Visits Campus

FTVM Honors Films to Screen At Michigan Theater

FTVM Undergrads Win Multiple Hopwoods This Year

Lightworks Winter 2017 - A Huge Success

FTVM Junior Maxim Vinogradov's Play to Premiere in Detroit

FTVM 423 Students Screen Films at TCFF

FTVM 236 Audiovisual Festival Celebrates Student Work

FTVM 304: Media Off the Wall Holds Final Showcase of Original Work

Brigitte Matteson

Stanton Aspelund

Adante Provenzano

THE BIG HOUSE (FTVM 401, Fall 2016) Makes World Premiere in Berlin

Matthew Solomon and Vincent Longo's UROP Students Win Blue Ribbon of Excellence Award

FTVM 401's THE BIG HOUSE Featured in FILM THREAT

FTVM 423 Students Screen Films at Traverse City Film Festival

SAC 404 Production for Voter Engagement Releases First PSA

SAC 404 Releases Second PSA to Get Out the Vote on November 6!

FTVM End-of-Term Events In Review

FTVM Undergrads Win Multiple Hopwoods

Lightworks Festival Winter 2019

Lightworks Festival Winners Fall 2019

FTVM 150 Audiovisual Essay Festival Showcases Student Talent

John H. and Patricia W. Mitchell Scholarship NOW OPEN to Returning FTVM Majors and GMS Minors

FTVM 150 Students Utilize New Technology and Exercise Collaborative Learning

Terri Sarris' Production Students Creatively Shift Gears in Response to the Pandemic

FTVM 404 Creates Second PSA Urging Students to Get Out and Vote!

Meet the 2020-2021 Mitchell Scholars

Join Us for a Virtual Tour of the FTVM Production Studios!

Fall 2020 Lightworks Festival Goes Virtual!

New WOLV TV Show Calls for Submissions

I AM FTVM Declaration Event

FTVM Partners with Detroit Free Press's Freep Film Festival

Lightworks 2021 Films and Award Winners Available Now!

2020-21 Mitchell Scholar Cohort Creates New Program Video!

FTVM Major Caleb Phillip James Wins Two Freep Film Festival Awards in the Real Fresh Documentary Competition

Thank you, Kemp Powers!

TV Writer Janet Leahy Engages with FTVM Mitchell Scholars About Working in the Industry

FTVM 403 Sketch Show Premieres at State Theater!

FTVM Congratulates the Winter 2023 FTVM 150 Audiovisual Essay Festival Winners!

FTVM 423 Screens at Frankfort48 Film Fest June 15th!

WOLV TV Members Attend MAB Great Lakes Broadcast and Sports Media Academy

Doctoral Candidate Benjamin Strassfeld Selected for Sweetland Dissertation Writing Institute

FTVM Grad Student Richard Mwakasege-Minaya Awarded Fellowship

FTVM Grad Students to Present Papers at Console-ing Passions Conference

Doctoral Candidate Ben Strassfeld Receives Institute for Humanities Fellowship for 2016-17

Doctoral Student Joseph DeLeon Stewards for Detroit City Study

FTVM Alum Matt Stinson and Lecturer Oliver Thornton Receive Emmy at 38th Regional Emmy Awards

Doctoral Candidate Josh Morrison Travels to Tucson

PhD Candidate Josh Morrison Receives Honors

PhD Student Vincent Longo Selected for Outstanding UROP Mentor Award

Interdisciplinary Heart of Darkness Cube Highlighted at Hail to the Cube Symposium by Michigan Daily

PhD Candidate Josh Morrison Publishes Article in Somatechnics

Vincent Longo Participates in Audiovisual Essay Conference in Australia

Joseph DeLeon Participates in American Studies Association Conference in Atlanta

FTVM Grad Students James Elrod and Kayti Lausch Participate in Flow Conference

Doctoral Candidate Vincent Longo Participates in the 2018 DOMITOR Graduate Workshop

Doctoral Candidate Joseph DeLeon Presents Paper at Conference in Sydney, Australia

PhD Student James Elrod Reviews Himberg's THE NEW GAY FOR PAY

Doctoral Candidate Joseph DeLeon Receives Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship for 2019-20

Doctoral Candidate Vincent Longo Publishes Article in JCMS TEACHING DOSSIER

PhD Student James Elrod Publishes Article in Participations

PhD Candidate Kayti Lausch Publishes Article in Television and New Media

PhD Candidate Vincent Longo Awarded Research Fellowship from Harry Ransom Center

Doctoral Candidate Vincent Longo Publishes Featured Article in Moving Image

Kayti Lausch, PhD, Appears on ACA-Media Podcast

PhD Candidate Vincent Longo Publishes Essay in THE OTHER HOLLYWOOD RENAISSANCE

PhD Student Joshua Schulze Publishes Article in CineAction

Professor Rielle Navitsky (University of Georgia) Leads Professionalization Workshop for FTVM Graduate Students

PhD Candidate Vincent Longo Awarded Inaugural Rackham Intern Fellowship

PhD Student Tanite Chawan Concludes FTVM 2021 Grad Talks

PhD Candidate Sean Donovan Wins 2021 SCMS Holmlund Graduate Student Writing Prize

PhD Student Amber Hardiman Contributes to U-M Press Podcast about Open Access and Building Structural Equity

PhD Student Briand Gentry Participates in "125th Anniversary -- Edison's Vitascope" Program at Columbia

Doctoral Candidate Joshua Schulze Publishes Chapter in THE CINEMA OF JAMES WAN: CRITICAL ESSAYS

PhD Candidate Joshua Schulze Publishes Article in Imago. Studi di cinema e media

James Elrod Receives Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship for 2022-23

Professor Yeidy Rivero Wins Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award of 2016

FTVM Director of Screenwriting Jim Burnstein Featured in Deadline.com

Associate Professor Daniel Herbert Gives Talk at King's College London

Professor Markus Nornes Travels to Stanford and Singapore

Associate Professor Daniel Herbert Delivers Keynote

Associate Professor Matthew Solomon Gives Méliès Lecture at the Smithsonian

Professor Johannes von Moltke Co-organizes Kracauer Conference in Vienna

Associate Professor Daniel Herbert Wins Outstanding Academic Title Award

Oliver Thornton Writes and Produces J.P. McCarthy Documentary in Collaboration with FTVM Alum Matthew Stinson

Senior Lecturer And Associate Chair Terri Sarris Wins Award at 54th Ann Arbor Film Festival

FTVM Heads to Atlanta for Society of Cinema and Media Studies Conference March 30 - April 3

Assistant Professor Colin Gunckel Presents Paper at Conference in Chicago

Director of Screenwriting Jim Burnstein Quoted in CONCENTRATE

David Marek's Film SOMEWHERE WEST to Premiere April 26

Associate Professor Daniel Herbert Gives Talk at Yale's "Terror on Tape" Symposium

Associate Professor Matthew Solomon Publishes New Articles on Méliès

Terri Sarris Invited to Join Bentley Group of Fellows

Associate Professor Colin Gunckel Curates Multimedia Exhibit

Johannes von Moltke Publishes New Book on Kracauer

David Marek Wraps Up Production on New Documentary

Associate Professor Giorgio Bertellini Gives Keynote at Oxford University

Professor Markus Nornes Publishes Article in Sight & Sound

Oliver Thornton's New Documentary Premieres at Emagine Rochester

Professor Emeritus Richard Abel Receives Recognition from Huffington Post

Thornton's "An Uncommon Education- Celebrating 200 Years of the U-M" Airs Episode 4

Professors Yeidy Rivero and Amanda Lotz Publish Essays in Television Antiheroines

FTVM Faculty Contribute to AAFF

Oliver Thornton's New Documentary to Air This Month

Oliver Thornton's Latest Documentary "A New Day in Detroit" to Air After Tigers Games

Oliver Thornton and FTVM Alum Matthew Stinson ('10) Lauded for Work

Matthew Solomon, Vincent Longo, and Philip Hallman Contribute to Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier

Professor Caryl Flinn Publishes Article in Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound

Associate Professor Colin Gunckel Publishes Essay in Cosmopolitan Film Cultures in Latin America, 1896-1960

Associate Professor Daniel Herbert Appears in French Documentary about the History of the VHS

Associate Professor Colin Gunckel Quoted in PRI about International Remakes

David Marek Attends Global Peace Exchange in Sweden

Director of Screenwriting Jim Burnstein Introduces His Film Before the First U-M Home Football Game

David Marek's New Feature Film to Premiere this Month

Professor Emeritus Richard Abel Receives Jean Mitry Award in Podenone, Italy

Associate Professor Colin Gunckel Travels to Mexico to Assist with Recovery Efforts of Cinema Archive

Associate Professor Matthew Solomon and PhD Student Vincent Longo Present Talk at University of Chicago

Professor Caryl Flinn Presents Talk at Case Western Reserve University Symposium

Thomas Delapa Reviews Film Criticism in the Digital Age for the Journal of Film and Video

David Marek's Thaw of the Dead Screens at Traverse City Zombie Run

Director of Screenwriting Jim Burnstein Visits Columbus as a Guest Artist in the Leventhal Artists Program

Associate Professor Colin Gunckel Publishes Essay for Catalog of Exhibition in L.A.

Dawn Hollison's Media Off the Wall Presents Works by Avant-Garde Cinema Artists

Associate Professor Giorgio Bertellini's Monograph on Emir Kusturica Recently Released in Romanian

Professor Johannes von Moltke's CURIOUS HUMANIST Named Outstanding Academic Title by Choice

Associate Professor Daniel Herbert Publishes New Book

FTVM Faculty Participate in Ann Arbor Film Festival This Month

Matthew Solomon and Vincent Longo Contribute Chapters to New Work on Welles

The Ann Arbor Film Festival and FTVM - A Review!

FTVM Students Claim Multiple Hopwoods!

David Marek's THAW OF THE DEAD Nominated for Multiple Eclipse Awards

Fanucchi, Lausch, and Hennessy Receive Fellowships

Oliver Thornton Takes Home Two Emmys Out of Five Nominations

Professor Markus Nornes Travels to China

Postdoctoral Fellow Mihaela Mihailova Contributes to Two Books on Animation Studies

Professor Caryl Flinn Publishes New Essay on Werner Schroeter

Associate Professor Colin Gunckel Publishes Essay for Art Exhibition in L.A.

Professor Giorgio Bertellini Gives Talk at Berkeley about New Monograph

Professor Giorgio Bertelllini Publishes THE DIVO AND THE DUCE

Professor Johannes von Moltke Co-Edits Volume of Essays on Siegfried Kracauer

Professor Matthew Solomon Contributes Chapter to MACHINES. MAGIE. MEDIAS.

RADICAL OBSERVATION: The Films of Kazuhiro Soda

Oliver Thornton's New Documentary to Premiere February 28, 2019

Professor Giorgio Bertellini Grants Interview to Italian Daily Newspaper about THE DIVO AND THE DUCE

Vincent Longo and Matthew Solomon Participate in Round Table about Video Essay Pedagogy

Associate Professor Colin Gunckel Previews New Project About Gabriel Navarro in FILM COMMENT

Associate Professor Colin Gunckel Co-Edits and Contributes Essay to to CINEMA BETWEEN LATIN AMERICA AND LOS ANGELES

Professor Markus Nornes Publishes "Filmless Festivals and Dragon Seals: Independent Cinema in China" in FILM QUARTERLY

Professor Emeritus Richard Abel Publishes New Essay in The Routledge Companion to New Cinema History

Professor Emeritus Richard Abel Contributes Essay to PRESENCES AND REPRESENTATIONS OF WOMEN IN THE EARLY YEARS OF CINEMA, 1895-1920

Assistant Professor Swapnil Rai Publishes Article in Communication, Culture, & Critique

Postdoctoral Fellow Mihaela Mihailova Publishes New Work

Associate Professor Matthew Solomon and PhD Candidate Vincent Longo Publish Essays in SCREEN

LSA Collegiate Postdoctoral Fellow Melissa Phruksachart Publishes Essay in FEMINIST TEACHER

Associate Professor Daniel Herbert Interviewed on NPR's Marketplace

Professor Emeritus Richard Abel Publishes Essay in FILM HISTORY

FTVM Faculty Oliver Thornton's Documentary ORCHESTRA HALL Premieres on DPTV

FTVM Department Chair and Professor Yeidy Rivero Receives Faculty Recognition Award

Associate Professor Daniel Herbert Co-Edits POINT OF SALE: ANALYZING MEDIA RETAIL

Associate Professor Colin Gunckel Edits Dossier in STUDIES IN SPANISH AND LATIN AMERICAN CINEMAS

FTVM Outreach: Faculty Ride CEO's Wolverine Express to Jackson High and Cesar Chavez Academy

Professor Giorgio Bertellini Spends Sabbatical in Italy

Oliver Thornton's New Documentary to Premiere on DPTV This Month

The Audiovisual Lexicon for Media Analysis - Now Available Online

Mihaela Mihailova Posts Blog on Animation and Contagion

Associate Professor Matthew Solomon Wins 2019-2020 LSA Michigan Humanities Award

Melissa Phruksachart Publishes Article in Film Quarterly

Assistant Professor Swapnil Rai Publishes Article in Feminist Media Studies

Professor Yeidy Rivero Publishes Essay in International Journal of Communication

Christopher McNamara Awarded Chrysalis Fellowship

Johannes von Moltke Publishes New Article on the Normalization of the "Alt-Right" on New Media

Veerendra Prasad Receives Institute of Humanities Summer Fellowship

Colin Gunckel's LA RAZA Wins Gold Medal in the 2020 Independent Book Awards

Associate Professor Colin Gunckel Contributes Chapter in Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film

Associate Professor Colin Gunckel Edits Dossier in Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas

Professor Emeritus Richard Abel Co-Curates Programs for the Pordenone Silent Film Festival

Matthew Solomon Co-edits and Contributes to Early Popular Visual Culture

Matthew Solomon Publishes Essay about Segundo de Chomón

Matthew Solomon Honors the Late Madame Méliès with Written Tribute

Matthew Solomon, Vincent Longo, and Shawn Jackson Create Unique Video Dictionary Repository for Students

Swapnil Rai Participates on Panel for "Women of Wisdom"

FTVM Production Faculty Oliver Thornton Nominated for Three Emmys in the 42nd Annual Michigan Emmy Awards

Assistant Professor Swapnil Rai Judges Trinity Film Festival

Oliver Thornton Writes and Produces "Celebrating American Ingenuity"

Associate Professor Daniel Herbert Quoted on Marketplace Morning Report

Assistant Professor Yvette Granata Contributes New Work to "The Suspension of Litanies" Exhibition

Professor Giorgio Bertellini Reaps Accolades for THE DIVO AND THE DUCE and Reviews THE PERFECT FASCIST

Gift Establishes Fellowship to Honor Professor Cohen's Lasting Impact on Students

Associate Professor Colin Gunckel Reaps Accolades for LA RAZA

Assistant Professor Melissa Phruksachart Reviews PBS Series Asian Americans

Associate Professor Matthew Solomon Shares Knowledge of Georges Méliès

Assistant Professor Melissa Phruksachart Appears on SCMS's Podcast "Talking Television in a Time of Crisis"

Department Chair Yeidy M. Rivero Receives Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award

Professor Johannes von Moltke Gives Presidential Address at German Studies Association's Annual Conference

Associate Professor Matthew Solomon Contributes Expertise on Houdini

Professor Jim Burnstein Mentioned in NEW YORK TIMES

Associate Professor Colin Gunckel Publishes "Capturing Movimientos" in Aperture

Assistant Professor Swapnil Rai Contributes to Article on Censorship in Bollywood Films

Associate Professor Colin Gunckel Receives LSA Michigan Humanities Award

Associate Professor Sheila Murphy Receives LSA Michigan Humanities Award

Assistant Professor Melissa Phruksachart Gives Talk for NCID

Associate Professor Daniel Herbert Co-Authors Book Chapter and Participates in Book Launch

Richard Abel Publishes New Essay in Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television

Assistant Professor Yvette Granata Exhibits and Screens New Work

Chris McNamara Contributes to Collaborative Art & Music Podcast

Professor Jim Burnstein Interviews Pulitzer Prize winning author Glenn Frankel

Assistant Professor Melissa Phruksachart's Essay on the Literature of White Liberalism Lauded as It Continues to Circulate

Assistant Professor Melissa Phruksachart Co-Authors Equity Study

Professor Markus Nornes Serves on Jury Committee for International Documentary Festival in China

Associate Professor Colin Gunckel Participates in Screening of First Chicano Feature Film at UCLA Film and Television Archive

Professor Emeritus Richard Abel Contributes Work to Women Film Pioneers Project

Professor Matthew Solomon Publishes Essay in Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film

Professor Emeritus Richard Abel Publishes Essay in PROVENANCE AND EARLY CINEMA

Global Media Industries Speaker Series Presents Swapnil Rai

Art House Presents Swapnil Rai "Representations Matter: Deconstructing Bollywood's Women Through a Feminist Lens"

Matthew Solomon, Yvette Granata, and FTVM Undergrads Participate in Inaugural XR@Michigan Summit

Associate Professor Matthew Solomon Gives Two Guest Lectures on Méliès

Department Chair and Professor Yeidy M. Rivero Gives Talk at Northwestern

FTVM and the Ann Arbor Film Festival!

Professor Giorgio Bertellini Named Guggenheim Fellow

Associate Professor Hollis Griffin Contributes to Huffington Post article "The Psychology Behind Why We Hate-Watch"

Professor Jim Burnstein Co-Authors Graphic Novel HAM-LET: A SHAKESPEAREAN MASH-UP

FTVM Studies Faculty Matthew Noble-Olson Contributes Essay to Dossier in Krisis: Journal for Contemporary Philosophy

Asst. Professor Swapnil Rai Acts as Chair and Discussant for Keynote by Bollywood Celebrity Activist Swara Bhaskar

Associate Professor Matthew Solomon Participates in Webinar about Muriel Rukeyser's HOUDINI: THE MUSICAL

Assistant Professor Swapnil Rai Participates in Global Fandom Conversation Initiative

Production Faculty Chris McNamara Participates in Sonorities Festival Belfast

Assistant Professor Yvette Granata Exhibits Work in Denmark

Professor Emeritus Richard Abel Wins IAMHIST Essay Award

Professor Caryl Flinn Gives Talk at Columbia University

Associate Professor Matthew Solomon Publishes Essay in EARLY POPULAR VISUAL CULTURE

Associate Professor Hollis Griffin Interviewed in PRIDE SOURCE about New Queer Cinema

Assistant Professor Umayyah Cable Publishes Essay for FRAMEWORK: THE JOURNAL OF CINEMA AND MEDIA

Assistant Professor Yvette Granata Receives Arts + Curriculum Grant for Fall 2022

Asst. Prof. Swapnil Rai Named 2022-23 Richard and Lillian Ives Humanities Faculty Fellow

Valadez & Hsu Win Imagen Award for Best Documentary

Assistant Professor Yvette Granata Announces Fall Line Up of International and National Exhibitions and Screenings

Lecturer Vincent Longo Gives Invited Talk at Utrecht University, Netherlands

Associate Professor Daniel Herbert Gives Presentation for University of Delaware Symposium and Appears on NPR's "It's Been a Minute"

Professor Matthew Solomon Presents AV Essay at Online Conference in Australia

Professors Valadez and Hsu Win Coveted National Salazar Award in Journalism for AMERICAN EXILE

Associate Professor Colin Gunckel Receives Grant from Terra Foundation

Professor Matthew Solomon and Lecturer Vincent Longo Receive 2023 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Innovative Pedagogy Award

Assistant Professor Yvette Granata Premieres Interactive VR Film in Copenhagen

Lecturer Vincent Longo Receives 2022 ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award

Prof Jim Burnstein Interviewed by Voyage Michigan Magazine

Magnificent Méliès: Making Magic with Undergraduate and International Collaborators

Signature Style: An LSA professor traces the human connections between calligraphy and cinema

John Valadez's THE LONGORIA AFFAIR Nominated for National Film Registry

Assistant Professor Swapnil Rai Gives Invited Talk in Austin, Texas

Production Faculty Chris McNamara Opens Two Exhibitions in Ontario

Lecturer Veerendra Prasad Curates New South Asian Film Series

Assistant Professor Swapnil Rai Publishes Article in South Asian Popular Culture

Professor Johannes von Moltke Publishes Essay in The New York Review of Books

Professor Daniel Herbert Publishes MAVERICK MOVIES

FTVM Alum Sheldon Cohn's THE PICKLE RECIPE Well-Received at SBFF Premiere

FTVM Alum Nathan Scherrer Nominated for Two Grammys for Best Music Video

FTVM Alum Jacqueline Wood Recently Recognized in Cincinnati's CITYBEAT

Graduate Jillian Borowski Wins MAB Foundation Award

FTVM Alumni Film Selected to Open Shorts Program at Rooftop Film Festival in NYC

Alum Sheldon Cohn's THE PICKLE RECIPE to Premiere Locally November 3

FTVM Alum Sophia Kruz Wins Best Documentary at World Premiere

FTVM Alum J.B. Armstrong ('15) Hosts Local Crowdfunding Event

PhD Alum Peter Alilunas Wins 2017 Distinguished Teaching Award at University of Oregon

FTVM Alum Ryan McDonough ('16) Wins Best Director at LIIFE for his film GROOVE.

FTVM Alum Anna Garcia's ('17) Film to Screen at Three Festivals This Month

FTVM Alum Noah Stahl ('11) Screens New Film and Holds Q & A on Campus

FTVM Alum Sophia Kruz ('11) Screens Film at AA (Westgate Branch) Library

Two FTVM Alums Screen Films in June!

Perry Janes (SAC '12) Selected for Creators for Imagine Impact

Geoff George (FTVM '08) to Receive Emerging Cinematographer Award from ICG

FTVM Alums Join Anna Baumgarten ('15) in Transforming Short Film into Feature Concept

Director David Siev's (FTVM '15) Documentary BAD AXE Makes Oscar Shortlist!

Filmmaker Jennifer Phang Skypes in for Q & A with Veerendra Prasad's FTVM 210

Owen Gleiberman Visits Professor Cohen's Writing Film Criticism Class

Film and TV Producer Sara Colleton Visits UM

Academy Award Winner John Nelson Visits FTVM

The Unreal Reality of Alan Rudolph: Conversations with the Filmmaker & Collaborators

Alan Rudolph Symposium Kicks off Special Rudolph Exhibit and Celebrates Archive Acquisition

FTVM Welcomes TV Writers and Producers Leahy, Albert, McQuillan, and Shih ...

FTVM Welcomes Film Director Nancy Savoca!

The year in NEWS - 2012

Staff Member Mary Lou Chlipala Receives LSA Staff Spotlight Award

Assoc. Professor Sheila Murphy Represents UM at the CIC Digital Humanities Summit

Student Ryan Burdick Awarded College Scholarship for UM

FTVM Alumni Win Michigan EMMY® Awards

Student Perry Janes Receives Arthur Miller Creative Arts Award

Associate Professor Johannes von Moltke Co-Editor on Two New Books on Siegfried Kracauer

Alum Danny Mooney Directs Local Film, "Love and Honor"

LSA Professor Jim Burnstein Says Proposed Increase In State Film Incentives Is Not Enough To Build An Industry

Kristy Rawson First Doctoral Candidate to Graduate from FTVM!

Brandon Verdi's TV Script selected as 2012 Benedek Prize for Best TV Script

FTVM Alumni and Current FTVM Student win Michigan EMMYs!!

FTVM Alumnus David Knott wins EMMY!

Professor Richard Abel Publishes Article on Jean Epstein

LSA Students Collaborate On Two Original Films For The Traverse City Film Festival

FTVM and the Traverse City Film Festival

FTVM Alums Screen Works @ Detroit Design Festival

Nathaniel Hart's Screenplay Wins 2012 Benedek Award for Best Screenplay

FTVM @ the Toronto International Film Festival

Chair Markus Nornes Discusses Japanese Silent Movies on the Radio

TV Director Mark Cendrowski Conducts Workshop

TV Writer/Producer Javier Grillo-Marxuach Visits FTVM

Michigan Daily Interviews FTVM Lecturer Mark Kligerman

FTVM Concentration Mixer a Rousing Success

Al Young Recognized for 40 Years of Service

The year in NEWS - 2013

Dan Herbert Interviewed for CNN.com Article

FTVM Alumni Interviewed by Fox TV for "Love and Honor"

FTVM Alumnus Produces Hill Auditorium Documentary

FTVM Alumnus in Sundance Film Festival

Professor Nakamura in The Michigan Daily

Professor Caryl Flinn and FTVM Students Discuss Female Directors with <i>The Michigan Daily</i>

"LOVE AND HONOR" Front and Center in <i>Michigan Today</i>

Frank Beaver Discusses "Iconic Athletes on Film" in <i>Michigan Today</i>

Jim Burnstein and FTVM alum Eddie Rubin Interviewed by Detroit Local 4 TV for "Love and Honor"

Alum Produced "Love and Honor" Premieres on Direct TV

FTVM-Produced <i>Love and Honor</i> Premieres at the Michigan Theater

FTVM Produced <i>Love and Honor</i> Premieres in Theaters Nationwide

Ph.D. Student Courtney Ritter Awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship

FTVM @ SCMS Conference in Chicago

North Quad Studios Teem with Action for New Musical Film Project

FTVM Students Win Prestigious UM Awards

Graduate Kristy Rawson to Help Establish Habib University in Pakistan

Alum Sophia Kruz' Documentary on Hill Auditorium Airs on PBS

FTVM Honors Graduate Perry Janes Nominated for Student Academy Award for film <i>Zug</i>

FTVM Alumni Win Big at the Michigan Emmys

FTVM Alumnus Perry Janes Wins Student Academy Award for Film Zug

Art Exhibition Featuring FTVM Lecturer Chris McNamara's Work Receives Prestigious Award

LSA Alumnus A. Brad Schwartz Plays An Important Role In A PBS Documentary About the "War of the Worlds" Radio Broadcast

Professor Markus Nornes Publishes Essay on Asian Documentary History

Associate Professor Giorgio Bertellini Publishes Book on Italian Silent Cinema

FTVM Alum A. Bradley Schwartz Co-Authors PBS Documentary

Terri Sarris' FTVM 423 Class Takes Improv Comedy Trip

FTVM Students Win at Ypsi 24-Hour Film Shootout

FTVM Student Theo Schear Wins First Place in 2013 Climate Change PSA Contest

IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR STUDENTS PLANNING TO TAKE FTVM 310 ( SCREENWRITING 1) OR FTVM 311 (WRITING FOR TV 1)

Staff Member Carrie Moore Receives LSA Staff Spotlight Award!

The year in NEWS - 2014

FTVM Assistant Professor Dan Herbert Publishes New Book Videoland

FTVM Welcomes Visiting Fellow Marie-Aude Baronian

Professor Lisa Nakamura Appointed Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor of American Culture and Screen Arts

FTVM Ph.D. Alumnus and Lecturer Peter Alilunas Receives Award of Distinction for Dissertation

FTVM Ph.D. Alumnus Peter Alilunas Accepts Tenure-Track Position at the University of Oregon

FTVM Welcomes Visiting Fellow Zhuang Su

Documentary Composer & Academy Award® Nominee Martin Bresnick Visits FTVM

Lecturer Chris McNamara Premieres Multi-Media Work "Outer Drive" in Iceland

Oscar Buzz: FTVM Student Zaineb Abdul-Nabi to Attend and Present Oscars

Assistant Professor Colin Gunckel Publishes Book <i>Self Help Graphics & Art</i>

FTVM Lecturer Linda Mokdad Accepts Tenure-Track Position at St. Olaf College

Emeritus Professor Richard Abel to Receive the Prestigious Society of Cinema and Media Studies’ Distinguished Career Achievement Award

In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Edgar Willis <br>"U-M Pioneer Broadcaster Academia"</br>

Honors Student Vincent Longo Selected to Present Paper at Visions Film Conference in Wilmington, North Carolina

Professor Hugh Cohen, Lecturer Mark Kligerman, and Senior Lecturer Terri Sarris Nominated for the Golden Apple Award

Assistant Professor Dan Herbert Interviewed by Wisconsin Public Radio

Screenwriting Coordinator Jim Burnstein Interviewed by Michigan Daily

Praise for Assistant Professor Dan Herbert's Book <i>Videoland: Movie Culture at the American Video Store</i>

FTVM Associate Professor Giorgio Bertellini's Book <i>Italian Silent Cinema: A Reader</i> on Shortlist for Prestigious Kraszna-Krausz Award

Chinese Subtitling Expert Akiyama Tamako Gives Talk "The Liberty Coerced by Limitation: Subtitling Independent Chinese Documentary"

FTVM Student Zaineb Abdul-Nabi Attends Oscars

FTVM Students Receive Hopwood and Other Writing Awards

Professor Emeritus Richard Abel Receives 2014 Distinguished Career Achievement Award from the Society of Cinema and Media Studies

FTVM Student Zaineb Abdul-Nabi Named UM 2014 Student of the Year

FTVM '12 Alumna Chelsea Rebecca's Short Film Duvid Selected for PBS Film School Shorts Series

FTVM 423 Student and Actress Jacqueline Toboni Lands Big Role on NBC's Grimm

Praise for Assistant Professor Dan Herbert's Book Videoland

FTVM Chief Engineer Rob Hoffman Receives LSA Staff Spotlight Award

Lights, Camera, FTVMtion! <br>FTVM Faculty Jim Burnstein and Robert Rayher Interviewed for Michigan Daily Article</br>

FTVM Alumnus '97 Craig Silverstein Premieres AMC Revolutionary War Drama Series TURN

FTVM '14 Graduate Nicole Lagore Selected for Prestigious Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation Internship

FTVM Assistant Professor Dan Herbert Promoted to Associate Professor

FTVM Student Caroline Schaper's Study Abroad Video Featured on LSA Website

Ph.D. Candidate Erin Hanna Earns Doctorate Degree

FTVM '11 Alumna Sophia Kruz Wins Michigan EMMY for Historical Documentary

Independent Filmmaker John Sayles and Producer Maggie Renzi Donate Work to UM Library Archives, Attend Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

FTVM Alumni Produce PBS Health Series "Feel Grand" with Host Jane Seymour

Associate Professor Giorgio Bertellini's Book <i>Italian Silent Cinema: A Reader</i> a Finalist for Prestigious Richard Wall Memorial Award

Associate Professor Yeidy Rivero Publishes New Anthology

Job Posting: Operations Engineer

FTVM Student Eugene Jehl Wins Prestigious Hopwood Writing Award

Meet Visiting Lecturer David Marek

FTVM Welcomes Two New Ph.D. Students

Professor Lisa Nakamura

Professor Dan Herbert presented a talk in Concordia University's ARTHEMIS lecture series.

Michael Toner wins both 2014 Benedek Awards for Best Screenplay and Best TV Script

Sketch Comedy Class Creates Youtube Channel

Vincent Longo Wins Library Research Award

Screenwriter (FTVM Alumnus) Mitchell Akselrad optioned to write "Splinter Way" for Director John Wells

The year in NEWS - 2015

Department of Film, Television, and Media Film Librarian Philip Hallman Discusses Academy Award Nominations

BROADCAST HYSTERIA: Orson Welles's War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News by FTVM Alumnus '13, A. Brad Schwartz

2014 Department of Film, Television, and Media Alumnus Chad Rhiness Wins Grand Prize ($15K) for Best Feature Screenplay in the Final Draft Big Break Competition.

Congratulations to: Dr. Colin Gunckel and Dr. Candace Moore, co-directors of a project: Cultivating Diversity in the Department of Film, Television, and Media Curriculum

FTVM's PhD Student Dimitri Pavlounis Wins Rackham Predoctorial Fellowship

FTVM Alumnus Sultan Sharrief's "Street Cred' Detroit Voices" finalist in a national TV development program.

"Street Cred" selected as only one of four projects to receive $150,000 TV development funding.

Department of Film, Television, and Media's Screenwriting Students awarded Winter 2015 Hopwood Awards!

FTVM '15 Alumna Caroline Schaper wrote two jokes for Letterman's final Top 10 list! CNN's "At This Hour" anchors interviewed Caroline on Wednesday May 27th.

Sheldon Cohn's THE PICKLE RECIPE Begins Filming This Week

Archivists from LSA Department of Film, Television, and Media Discover Fragments of Unfinished Orson Welles Autobiography

Jim Burnstein, Eddie Rubin, and Michigan Film Incentive Program on NPR's "All Things Considered"

FTVM Alumnus, Historian, and Author A. Brad Schwartz Publishes BROADCAST HYSTERIA and Participates in Upcoming Wellespring Symposium

FTVM-Affiliated Feature Film CONSIDERATION Directed by Veerendra Prasad Available on May 26

Seldy Gray Wins the 2015 Peter and Barbara Benedek Prize for Best T.V. Pilot

Professor Caryl Flinn has published a short piece discussing ways that music and sound encourage audience “singalong” participation in THE SOUND OF MUSIC.

Professor Caryl Flinn's new book "The Sound of Music" has been published by The British Film Institute for its "film classic series."

Julia Mogerman Wins The Peter and Barbara Benedek Award for Best Screenplay of 2015

Terri Sarris Curates and Presents Experimental Screendance Works at the Mini Microcinema in Cincinnati and Continues Her Work with Super 8 and 16mm Film

Tony "Master T" Young Visits Josh Morrison's FTVM 366: I Want My MTV: Critical Perspective on the Music Video

Professor Emeritus Richard Abel Publishes MENUS FOR MOVIELAND: NEWSPAPERS AND THE EMERGENCE OF AMERICAN FILM CULTURE

Assistant Professor Colin Gunckel Quoted in THE KERNEL

FTVM Alum Phil Ranta Featured in Variety as one of "Hollywood's New Leaders"

FTVM Alums Sultan Sharrief and Oren Goldenberg Win Hack 360 Jury Prize at Tech Conference in Harlem

Professor Markus Nornes Participates in Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival in Japan

Professor Emeritus Richard Abel and FTVM Graduate Student Vincent Longo Contribute to Le Giornate del Cinema Muto

Warren Lieberfarb Guest Lectures in Dan Herbert's FTVM 455

David Marek's FTVM 301 Selected as Top Ten Finalist in The Challenge Detroit Film Compeition

Chris McNamara Publishes Essay in "Border Cultures"

Senior Lecturer Terri Sarris and FTVM Alums J.B. Armstrong and Josh Gibert Selected for Sundance Institute's Detroit Screenwriters Intensive

Nine FTVM Undergrads Receive Fall 2015 Scholarship Awards

Associate Professor Matthew Solomon Gives Presentation at International Colloquium in France

FTVM Summer Spotlight 2023

Graduate Program Faculty

Affiliated and Visiting Faculty

Postdoctoral Fellows

Graduate Students

Doctoral Students

Certificate Students

Faculty Books, Films & Installations

Fields of Study

Donald Hall Collection

Donald Hall and Robert Shaye and the Donald Hall Collection

Production Facilities & Equipment

FTVM Equipment Room

Mitchell Endowment

John H. and Patricia W. Mitchell Scholarship

John H. and Patricia W. Mitchell Internship Scholarship

John H. Mitchell Visiting Professor in Media Entertainment

Kemp Powers, Fall 2024, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Miranda Banks, Fall 2023, Scholar and Author

Nancy Savoca, Fall 2022, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Janet Leahy, Fall 2021, Screenwriter

John H. Mitchell Critical Conversations

Critical Conversations Fall 2022

Critical Conversations Spring 2022

John H. and Patricia W. Mitchell Community Outreach Fund

Wolverine Express