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Film and media studies

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

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

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

Intersession

Intersession, from coast to coast

Published Fall 2019

Intersession courses can help students explore their passions from a new angle / Johns Hopkins Magazine

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