Cinema

Projects

Project leads Lynn and Danny working together at a table

Unthinkable Films

Cinema, Cinema Studies, Current Events, Digital Humanities, Environmental Humanities
Birthday Canyon, Greenland Ice Sheet, James Balog

Anthropocene Film Salon

Anthropocene, Cinema, Environmental Humanities
A scientist takes notes while sitting in a chair while insdie the Murray Hill Anechoic Chamber, which has hanging speakers and walls made of grids.

Sound Practices

21st Century, American Ethnic Studies, Art History, Cinema, Identity and Culture
Binary code and still frames of two people dancing, overlaid with the text "Moving Image Research Group"

Moving Images Research Group (MIRG)

Cinema, Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media
Drawing of a man standing in a doorway.

Where the House Was

Architecture, Cinema
still from Manzanar Diverted: shows a japanese white stone monument in a plain in front of mountains

Horizons of Harm and Repair: The Stories of Manzanar, Diverted

Cinema, Japan, Peace, Violence, and Security
Black and white page graphic of motion picture camera with name of film festival

From Film Festivals to Songbooks: A Collector's Assemblage of Indian Cinema

Cinema, South Asia, Visual Culture

Articles

A close-up of a bird's wing; image from Phillip Thurtle’s digital showcase Gothic Wings.

Why We Don’t Have Wings

Digital Humanities, Political Science, Cinema, Postcolonialism, Posthumanism
Liina-Ly Roos

Liina-Ly Roos Awarded Alvord Fellowship in the Humanities

Awards, Scandinavian Studies, Language and Literature, Cinema
Leigh Mercer

Leigh Mercer Creates Seminar on Hispanic Film and Organizing Film Festivals

Cinema, Cultural Studies, Latin America, Latinx
Jessica Bachman and Indian actor-director Randhir Kapoor

Bachman Creates Suzzallo Library Exhibit on ‘Bollywood and Bolsheviks’

Cinema, Language and Literature, Public Scholarship
Christian and his co-authors dress in the same disguises the film characters wear at the end of the film for a book celebration at the Annual Conference on South Asia at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 2015.

Novetzke Co-Authors Book on Classic Bollywood Film, Dresses the Part

UW Faculty, South Asia, Cinema
Eric Ames

Ames Publishes Book on Landmark Herzog Film

UW Faculty, Cinema
Portrait of James Tweedie

James Tweedie Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

Cinema, Awards
Profile image of Ying-Hsiu Chou in a dark blue top against a white wall with blue shadows. Her hair is dark and pulled back in a low bun with bangs in front. She is smiling close-lipped at the camera.

2020 Digital Humanities Summer Fellow Receives Prestigious Award

Cinema, Asian Languages & Literature, China, Digital Humanities

Katz Lectures

Steven Ungar

Making Waves: Documentary Film in Perspective

Cinema, French & Italian Studies, Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media

People

Portrait of Jennifer Bean

Jennifer Bean (she/her/hers)

Jennifer M. Bean is Robert Jolin Osborne Professor of Cinema and Media Studies.  She is Associate Chair of Cinema and Media Studies, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies.

Cinema, Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media, Feminisms, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Studies
Portrait of José Alaniz in wintertime New York from 2018

José Alaniz (he/him/his)

José Alaniz, professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Department of Cinema and Media Studies (adjunct) at the University of Washington, Seattle, has published two monographs, Komiks: Comic Art in Russia (University Press of Mississippi, 2010) and Death,

Cinema, Cultural Studies, Disability Studies, Environment, Language and Literature, Latinx, Literary Studies, Slavic Studies, Visual Culture
Portrait of Leigh Mercer wearing glasses and a dark jacket standing in front of a blue wall.

Leigh Mercer (she/her/hers)

Having completed her first book, Urbanism and Urbanity: The Spanish Bourgeois Novel and Contemporary Customs (1845-1925) (Bucknell UP) in 2013, Professor Mercer is currently finishing another book manuscript, titled An Incoherent Voyage: Spanish Cinema Pioneers, Between Technophilia

18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, Cinema, Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media, Cultural Studies, Hispanic Studies, Language and Literature, Public Scholarship, Spanish & Portugese, Visual Culture
Portrait of Xin Peng standing by a golden Japanese Maple tree

Xin Peng (she/her/hers)

Xin Peng is a Ph.D.

Asian American, Cinema, Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media, Cultural Studies, Feminisms, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Performance Studies, Race, Visual Culture
Ungsan Kim

Ungsan Kim (he/him/his)

Ungsan Kim us an Assistant Professor of Asian Cinema jointly appointed in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures and the Department of Film, Television, and Media.
Asian Languages & Literature, Cinema, East Asia, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Studies, Visual Culture
Belinda He stands in front of a bank of windows wearing a black shirt and gray jacket.

Belinda He (she/her/hers)

Belinda Qian He is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media (CLCM) at the University of Washington.

Art History, Cinema, Digital Humanities, East Asia, Law, Visual Culture
Stephen Groening looking at a computer monitor

Stephen Groening (he/him/his)

Stephen Groening is the author of Cinema Beyond Territory: Inflight Entertainment and Atmospheres of Globalization (British Film Institute, 2019), which traces the history of cin

Cinema, Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media
Portrait of Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse

Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse (she/her/hers)

Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse, PhD is the curator of Northwest Native art and director of the Bill Holm Center for the Study of Northwest Native Art at the Burke Museum, and assistant professor of art history at the University of Washington.

American Indian and Indigenous Studies, Art History, Cinema, Digital Humanities
Portrait of Ellen Y. Chang standing in front of a blurred background and wearing a blue collared shirt.

Ellen Y. Chang (she/her/hers)

Ellen Chang is a doctoral candidate in Cinema & Media Studies (CMS) and the 2020-2021 CLIP Fellow at the Department of Comparative History of Ideas (CHID) at the UW, and is currently teaching, in collaboration with Carlos Salazar from the School of Drama, their&n

Art History, Asian American, Cinema, Digital Humanities, East Asia, Visual Culture
Portrait of Amanda Doxtater

Amanda Doxtater (she/her/hers)

Cinema, Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media, Language and Literature, Scandinavian Studies
Portrait of Eric Ames

Eric Ames (he/him/his)

I am generally interested in historical and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of modern culture.

Cinema, Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media, Cultural Studies, German Studies, Performance Studies, Visual Culture
A black and white portrait of Sarah Choi.

Sarah Choi (she/her/hers)

Sarah Choi is 2022-2023 Digital Humanities Summer Fellow.

Cinema, Digital Humanities, Feminisms, Identity and Culture, Race, Technology, Visual Culture
Katherine Morrow wears glasses and smiles into the camera.

Katherine Morrow (she/her/hers)

Katherine Morrow earned a doctoral degree in Comparative Literature in 2019. She was a visiting lecturer at Wellesley College from 2019-2021.

20th Century, 21st Century, China, Cinema, Visual Culture
Mal Ahern looks at a roll of film that has been unwound.

Mal Ahern (she/her/hers)

Mal Ahern is an Assistant Professor in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Washington. Broadly, her research focuses on media technology, visual culture, and the history of capitalism.

Cinema, Technology, Visual Culture
A portrait of Amalie Goul Dueholm standing in front of a wall.

Amalie Goul Dueholm (she/her/hers)

Amalie Goul Dueholm is a 2022-2023 Society of Scholars Fellow.

Cinema, Cultural Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Law
Portrait of Gust Burns.

Gust Burns

Gust Burns is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Washington. His dissertation examines the prohibition of human capacity through mixed readings of artistic works, Black Studies, Marxist theory, and philosophy.

Black Studies, Cinema, Cultural Studies, Language and Literature
Jesús Hidalgo stands outside while wearing glasses and a blue collared shirt.

Jesús Hidalgo (he/him/his)

Jesús Hidalgo earned a PhD in Spanish in 2020. His research focuses on soccer, masculinities studies, and Latin American novels and films. He is currently the Graduate Program Advisor in the Jackson School of International Studies.

Cinema, Latin America
A black and white image of BrittNEY Frantece in front of a white wall.

BrittNEY Frantece (she/her/hers)

21st Century, Black Studies, Cinema, Queer Studies, Visual Culture
Erin Gilbert stands in front of a body of water.

Erin Gilbert (she/her/hers)

Cinema, Language and Literature, Latin America
Sudhir Mahadevan

Sudhir Mahadevan (he/him/his)

Sudhir Mahadevan is an Associate Professor in Comparative History of Ideas (with a joint appointment in Cinema and Media Studies). He is the author of A Very Old Machine: the Many Origins of the Cinema in India (SUNY Press, 2015).

Cinema, India, Visual Culture