Campus Life Steve Blank ’07: A ‘zigzag’ path to Lucasfilm March 11, 2025 The film and media studies major worked numerous part-time gigs before landing a job with the company that produces Star Wars.
From the Magazine Flump! Splatter! Pop! May 1, 2024 Grace Stensland ’23, a sound designer and sound effects editor for animated films and TV, delights in odd noises.
The Arts The work of horror films February 20, 2024 A collection of essays coedited by Jason Middleton explores the "monster" of late capitalism lurking in modern American horror films.
University News Meet the recipients of the 2021 Goergen Awards for teaching excellence October 26, 2021 Rochester professors Will Bridges, Jason Middleton, and Elaine Sia will be formally recognized for their exceptional undergraduate teaching on October 28.
Campus Life Jason Middleton: Looking at film with a critical eye October 26, 2021 The associate professor of English and visual and cultural studies lived all over the globe growing up, and developed a love of film at an early age.
University News Three professors to receive Goergen Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching September 13, 2021 Will Bridges, Jason Middleton, and Elaine Sia will be honored at an on-campus ceremony in October.
The Arts Digital scholars rescue lost Japanese film November 29, 2018 A 1929 Japanese silent film inspired by a classic O. Henry short story was long thought lost until Rochester researchers collaborated to bring it back to the big screen.
Society & Culture Horror films offer a psychological thrill ride October 24, 2018 Jason Middleton, director of the Film and Media Studies Program and a student of horror films, talks about the paradox of horror—why people seek to be scared as entertainment.
Voices & Opinion Thinking about ‘visual privilege’ and the 2018 Oscars March 1, 2018 Sharon Willis, a member of Rochester’s Film and Media Studies program faculty, says this year’s nominations show that change may be afoot in Hollywood—but that how much movies will be transformed remains to be seen.
Society & Culture Thinking about time November 3, 2017 Spring forward. Fall back. On two Sundays each year, as we move in and out of Daylight Saving Time, time itself suddenly starts to seem a little arbitrary. Every discipline in the University has its own way of constructing and thinking about time.