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Film and media studies

Glass blower demonstrates how to form globes
Television
JHU group eyes science TV reboot
Published Oct 10, 2023
Inspired by a landmark Hopkins television show from the '40s and '50s, a small team wants to create a new type of science program for the streaming age
Illustration of a 16-mm film projector
Film
Forgotten era of filmmaking finds a new home
Published Jan 3, 2023
The Sheridan Libraries has acquired the Academic Film Archive of North America, an eclectic collection of more than 7,600 vintage 16-mm films
Emma Needell, wearing a cowboy hat, looks on as a someone holding a video camera films a scene
Film
Emma Needell goes home again
Published Fall 2022
Screenwriter Emma Needell, A&S '12, returned to her family's Colorado ranch to film Life Rendered, her new film about a cowboy who uses virtual reality to explore his secret inner self / Johns Hopkins Magazine
A group of students
Inside the Writers Room at Johns Hopkins
Published July 28, 2022
The Writers Room, a small screenwriting club at Johns Hopkins, offers student participants a collaborative environment where imaginations can run wild in the creation of an episodic web series
Marin Alsop leads an orchestra
A pioneer at the podium
Published Spring 2022
A new documentary directed by JHU Professor of Media Studies Bernadette Wegenstein explores the many firsts of conductor Marin Alsop / Johns Hopkins Magazine
A cartoon of a woman disco dancing with a broom
Toon school
Published Jan 20, 2021
Students explore old and new animation techniques in Karen Yasinsky's Animating Cartoons course
Photograph of the Hollywood sign from behind
Q+A
How to make it in a Hollywood on hiatus
Published July 8, 2020
Johns Hopkins alum Emma Needell leads a conversation series about breaking into the entertainment industry during coronavirus shutdowns
Illustration of a notebook with doodles
Intersession
Intersession, from coast to coast
Published Fall 2019
Intersession courses can help students explore their passions from a new angle / Johns Hopkins Magazine
'Static in the System' book cover
Nonfiction
Exploring the history of silence and film
Published Summer 2019
Meredith Ward explores what moviegoing has sounded like from the tumultuous days of the early silent cinema through the modern experience of watching media on a smartphone with earbuds in public / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Meredith Ward
Q+A
Talking with Meredith Ward
Published Summer 2019
Director of the Johns Hopkins Program in Film and Media Studies discusses her debut book on the 'sound' of moviegoing / Johns Hopkins Magazine