The Media and Cinema Studies Program is the host of the Chicago Film Seminar, which returns this month. Please join us for the first event of the 2016-2017 season of the Chicago Film Seminar on Thursday, October 20th, at 7:30 PM, to welcome Professor Amyar Jean Christian (Northwestern University) for his talk, "The Art of Scale: Production Value in Networked Television." A reception will follow.
The event will be held in our Communication Theater, LL102 Daley.
You will find more detailed information about the talk and Professor Christian through this link:
http://chicagofilmseminar.blogspot.com/
Thursday 6 October 2016
Wednesday 5 October 2016
MCS Graduate Student Jacob Oller writes for RogerEbert.com
This summer, current Media and Cinema Studies graduate student Jacob Oller had an article published on Roger Ebert's website, rogerebert.com:
http://www.rogerebert.com/balder-and-dash/a-gamer-defends-warcraft
His article, "A Gamer Defends Warcraft," offers an alternative reading of Duncan Jones' 2016 film Warcraft, an adaptation of the popular video game. Oller credits his work in Prof. Davis's Spring 2016 course on Adaptation as a launching pad for some of the ideas explored in the article, in which he compares the role of visual fidelity and narrative fidelity in how the film has been received by audiences and critics.
"Ultimately," concludes Oller, "'Warcraft' is the best video game adaptation we’ve gotten so far because it understands itself. “Warcraft” is a broad, goofy, trope-embracing soap opera that isn’t trying to be more—it’s pro wrestling if a spellslinger turned heel and the absurdly muscular heroes carried battle axes—and it’s a definite step in the right direction for the future of video game films."
Congratulations, Jacob!
http://www.rogerebert.com/balder-and-dash/a-gamer-defends-warcraft
His article, "A Gamer Defends Warcraft," offers an alternative reading of Duncan Jones' 2016 film Warcraft, an adaptation of the popular video game. Oller credits his work in Prof. Davis's Spring 2016 course on Adaptation as a launching pad for some of the ideas explored in the article, in which he compares the role of visual fidelity and narrative fidelity in how the film has been received by audiences and critics.
"Ultimately," concludes Oller, "'Warcraft' is the best video game adaptation we’ve gotten so far because it understands itself. “Warcraft” is a broad, goofy, trope-embracing soap opera that isn’t trying to be more—it’s pro wrestling if a spellslinger turned heel and the absurdly muscular heroes carried battle axes—and it’s a definite step in the right direction for the future of video game films."
Congratulations, Jacob!
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