News

Prof. Mick Hurbis-Cherrier will be executive producer, along with partners Bill Collage and Sameh Zoabi (former F&M adjunct), on the Showtime television series Dinner at the Center of the Earth.  The deal recently made with Sony Pictures Television is for a ten part series based on the bestselling novel by Nathan Englander. Dinner at the Center of the Earth is a sprawling espionage drama rooted in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and set in the Middle East and Europe. TV veteran’s Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon (Homeland, 24, X-Files) are the series show runners. Read more about it on Deadline.

IMA alum David Pavlosky’s film Stand Up, Stand Out: The making of a comedy movement was just selected for the Santa Fe Film Festival running  February 17th – 21st, 2021.

Prof. Isabel Pinedo’s book Difficult Women on Television Drama: The Gender Politics Of Complex Women In Serial Narratives will be available February.

About the Book:
Difficult Women on Television Drama analyses select case studies from international TV dramas to examine the unresolved feminist issues they raise or address: equal labor force participation, the demand for sexual pleasure and freedom, opposition to sexual and domestic violence, and the need for intersectional approaches. This book is a must-read for scholars of media and communication studies; television and film studies; cultural studies; American studies; sociology of gender and sexualities; women and gender studies; and international film, media and cinema studies.