07-29-2009

See all the films playing at The Humanities Film Series Webpage

The 2009-2010 Humanities Film Series shakes things up by investigating the concepts, labels, and categories that frame our experience.  The Series’ focus on REFRAMING will challenge established conventions, accepted wisdom, preconceived notions, and even common sense.

Please join us to explore new perspectives on life priorities, Disney films, good and evil, pleasure, gender, identity, truth, sanity, love, history, Cuba, humanity, autism, and silent film.  And then continue the discussion on our new
 Humanities Film Series at Millersville University Facebook page.

When was the last time you shook things up?  

SPECIAL GUESTS AND EVENTS

October 14-15 the Series welcomes producer, director, and writer Dr. Chyng Sun, Master Teacher of Media Studies at New York University.  Dr. Sun will provide insights on her films Mickey Mouse Monopoly, Beyond Good and Evil, and The Price of Pleasure.

November 6-7 the Series welcomes film historian and preservationist David Shepard, the Series’ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Visiting Artist. Shepard will discuss his work on dozens of films at the Series’ Reframing Silent Film Festival.  

Throughout the year, the Series will present films that explore autism to complement the common reading, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.  Special guests for these films include Nick Pentzell, director of Outside/Inside, and Will Turnbull, the first student to graduate from Millersville University with mid-spectrum autism.  

INFORMATION

The Series’ films screen on Millersville University campus, either in the Myers Auditorium in McComsey Building (43 East Frederick Street) or in Ganser Library (George and Frederick Streets).  Directions are available online.

FILMS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

CONTACT: DR. JILL CRAVEN, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF FILM STUDIES, JILL.CRAVEN@MILLERSVILLE.EDU, 717-872-3627