With a world class faculty and up-to-date production facilities, Hunter College’s Department of Film & Media Studies offers two undergraduate programs of study and an MFA degree in Integrated Media Arts. [more...]
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Prof. Steve Gorelick has been appointed to the editorial board of the new academic journal Gender and Violence, and will advise the journal on the gendered representations of criminals and victims that are dominant in media and culture. The first issue will include his piece on the persistence of misogynistic narratives of the spurned, vengeful female killer in popular culture.
Oyster City, an AR walking tour and game about oysters in NYC by Rachel Stevens and collaborators Meredith Drum and Phoenix Toews, is supported by a residency on Governors Island through the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
“Our Space, Our Food, Our Bed Stuy” on Saturday, July 13, 2013. The film was produced (this past semester in Public Health Documentary) by IMA student Makia Harper, Phung Tran-Khamphounvong, Uki Lau, and Samantha Riddell, two public health students and undergraduate in the media studies program.
Our Space, Our Food, Our Bed-Stuy is a 13-minute documentary short examining the lack of healthy foods available to members of Brooklyn’s historically African American neighborhood, Bedford Stuyvesant. Through the lens of local residents, shop owners, gardeners and activists, Our Space explores the multifaceted nature of Bed-Stuy’s issues with food access while highlighting the grassroots initiatives that address the problem every step of the way.
