Media
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Melody Gilbert, Visiting Professor in Cinema & Media Studies, Documentary Film Making, Carleton College |
Gilbert is working with Carleton students on producing a documentary on the students' experience of going "computerless" during the final few weeks of Carleton's fall term. |
Gilbert, a documentary film maker whose works include "A Life Without Pain," "Urban Explorers: Into the Darkness" and "Whole," has been featured on "Oprah." She is a nationally-known, award-winning documentary film maker. |
Eric Sieger, Director of Media & Public Relations, Carleton College, 507-222-4183 (o), 507-649-1385 (c), esieger@carleton.edu, www.carleton.edu/news/ |
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Clay Steinman, Professor, Humanities and Media and Cultural Studies, Macalester College |
Steinman can discuss the role of mass media in society as well as a variety of media and film issues including news media coverage, political advertising, television viewing habits and stereotypes in Hollywood films. |
Steinman’s research interests include the impact of television and film on culture, and racism and Hollywood film. He teaches courses on critical media theory, film history and analysis, racism and the media, and gender and media. Steinman is the co-author of Consuming Environments: Television and Commercial Culture, which explores how television has helped create a culture of consumerism and over-consumption. He is a former journalist, writing for newspapers and other news organizations such as The Nation and Xinhua, the China news agency. |
Barbara Laskin, Media Relations, Macalester College, (651) 696-6451, laskin@macalester.edu, Web |
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James W. Schott, Professor of Liberal Arts, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, Carleton College |
Schott is chair of the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at Carleton. He helped launch the College's Film Colloquium, and is a leading expert in new media. |
Schott has offered two cutting-edge classes in recent years: An off-campus studies program exploring New Media in New York, London, Amsterdam and Berlin (fall 2006). With cameras, audio recorders and laptops on their hips, students produced projects reflecting their discoveries. |
Media and Public Relations, 507-646-4184, media@acs.carleton.edu |
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Carol Donelan |
Donelan can provide information on the Academy Awards. |
She teaches a range of courses in Cinema & Media Studies, including the core sequence required for the concentration as well as courses on film modes and genres, directors, national cinemas, and television studies. She has published articles on the politics of gender in cinema and on the implications of teaching film theory in a post-film, post-theory era. Currently, she is researching the role of gender and affect in the experience of film, with particular attention to the pathos and thrills of Hollywood film melodrama. |
Media and Public Relations, 507-646-4184, media@acs.carleton.edu |
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