• » Joan Braderman, professor of video, film, and media studies
• » Viveca Greene, assistant professor of cultural studies
• » Susana Loza, assistant professor of media culture
• » Eva Rueschmann, professor of cultural studies
• » James Miller, professor of communications

• » Through the Mouse’s Eyes: Walt Disney and His Worlds
• » Maturity in the Gutter: Vertigo and the Modern Comics Industry
• » Permission Perform: An Articulation of UR M/other
• » Disorderly Bodies: Beauty and Impermissability in Kiki Smith and Janine Antoni
• » Challenging the Digital Generation: An Approach to Creating Critical Consumers through Media Education
• » You Can Do Anything!: A Critical Analysis of Girl Empowerment Messages through Qualitative Research

• » Alien/Freak/Monster: Race, Sex, and Otherness in Sci-Fi and Horror
• » Anthropology of Mass Media in Late Capitalism
• » Caribbean History and the Cinematic Imagination
• » Deconstructing the Popular: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Race
• » Domination, Resistance, and Meaning-Making: Audience Research and Cultural Studies
• » Freedom of Expression
• » The History and Politics of Consumer Culture
• » Masculinity in the Popular Imagination
• » The Media and the Civil Rights Movement
• » Media in a Time of War: WWII and U.S. Popular Culture
• » Media Studies: Advertising and Society
• » New Media: Innovation, Adoption, Future

• » Politics, News, and Irony
• » Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Digital Age
• » The (Post)Racial State: Media Politics, Ideology
• » Producing Youth Culture
• » September 11th: An Introduction to Media Analysis

Advanced Media Production
The Advanced Media Workgroup, located in the basement of the Johnson Library, provides training and skill development in the production of media. This is primarily designed for students, but faculty and staff are frequent clients.

The work ranges from video editing, sound design, and interactive DVDs to still photography, page layout, presentations, and QuickTime VRs. Additionally, they install and maintain labs, classrooms, and facilities for media presentation and production, providing students with the skills and hardware to make, develop, and present media.

Media Services
The Media Services Office, also in the library, coordinates the booking of all films and videos in the Five College collections, loans of video production and audio/visual equipment, reservations for film preview rooms, and film/video reference help.

Five College Film Council
The Five College Film Council works to coordinate the study of film and video at all five campuses. The members of the council include faculty drawn from a number of disciplines including foreign languages, literature, history, and media studies. They meet regularly to exchange information about courses and faculty, and plan a coordinated approach to meeting common needs for instruction.

The council oversees the shared teaching duties of joint faculty appointments who provide instruction in the hands-on experience of production to complement and bridge courses in film theory and history currently offered at each campus. The council also sponsors an annual festival of student film, held in the spring.

Crossroads in the Study of the Americas (CISA)
Crossroads in the Study of the Americas (CISA) is a center dedicated to new teaching and scholarship on the Americas. Founded in 1997, CISA brings together faculty from each of the schools in the consortium to explore relational aspects of identity in the Americas. Instead of adopting a North-South approach, CISA has developed a triangular model for its work, where the three sides are formed by the Old World (Africa, Asia, Europe), the polities of the New World, and the indigenous peoples of the Americas. This conception of the Americas as a crossroads seeks to promote an awareness of the historical and material inter-relationality of citizenship, migration, diaspora, and nationhood.