Film and Media Studies Program

The film and media studies major worked numerous part-time gigs before landing a job with the company that produces Star Wars.

Grace Stensland ’23, a sound designer and sound effects editor for animated films and TV, delights in odd noises.

A collection of essays coedited by Jason Middleton explores the "monster" of late capitalism lurking in modern American horror films.

Rochester professors Will Bridges, Jason Middleton, and Elaine Sia will be formally recognized for their exceptional undergraduate teaching on October 28.

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.

Will Bridges, Jason Middleton, and Elaine Sia will be honored at an on-campus ceremony in October.

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.

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.

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.

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.