Word: cinemae
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...decades, Harvard has had an informal film studies program: students interested in the academic side of cinema have, with varying degrees of ease, found like-minded professors scattered across a wide range of departments. Now the Carpenter Center—the department’s Quincy Street home—is humming with meetings about how best to bring that option above ground, with an undergraduate track in film studies planned within VES and a counterpart graduate program being considered for introduction shortly thereafter...
Bruce Jenkins, Cavell curator of the Harvard Film Archive (HFA), says that Kirby is “a little more traveled in this area” than his predecessors, citing the dean’s knowledge of Chinese cinema...
Several professors note that the academic theory of cinema was essentially founded by Hugo Munsterberg—a Harvard professor of psychology—shortly before his death...
...Connor says there are still important gaps in the film studies faculty, citing Harvard’s lack of an expert on silent cinema. Such holes, he says, might be filled by visiting professors, but Connor worries that it will be a challenge to find experts on the constellation of specific niches that make up a field as diverse as film studies...
...violent, extremely physical role in Quentin Tarantino's action film Kill Bill Volume 1 [Oct. 13], critic Josh Tyrangiel asserted that "the only analogous performance in recent movie history is Sigourney Weaver's turn as the avenging warrior" in the Alien series. This is a very limited view of cinema history. Action movies made in Hong Kong and Japan have routinely featured dynamic heroines who cause much more mayhem than your typical, contrived male Hollywood action hero-and these are the kinds of movies Tarantino is paying homage to in Kill Bill. Marc Walkow New York City...