Cinema and Digital Media combines the study of audio-visual and
digital media, theories about such media, and relevant modes of
artistic practice and production.
Filmmakers and professors Glenda
Drew (of Design) and Jesse
Drew (of Cinema and Digital Media) have completed a project
decades in the making — a documentary about the roots of American
Country Music titled Open Country. It
tells a longer arc of country music that is not rooted in ‘God
and Country’ but in working class people telling their stories,
seeking freedom from government interference and a good,
dignified life.
Lishan AZ, assistant professor of cinema and digital media, opens
her solo exhibition, Eugene’s
Cove, at the Museum of African Diaspora (MoAD) in
San Francisco, California, on Dec. 13. T
UC Davis faculty members Glenda Drew, professor of design,
and Jesse Drew, professor of cinema and digital
media, in collaboration with Melissa Chandon, continuing
lecturer in design, and the International Class Conscious
Photographers Collective, created “WE ARE
ESSENTIAL,” a site-specific media arts installation
specially crafted for the “Salute to Labor Awards Gala.”
Recent alumna Sarah Sy (B.A., design and cinema and digital
media, ‘23) has received a scholarship through The Gotham EDU Film and Media Career
Development Program. The six-week summer program covers
development, pitching, marketing, distribution, and more.
The Departments of Cinema and Digital Media and Middle
East/South Asian Studies at UC Davis present Ajay Gehlawat,
Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Theatre and Film, at
Sonoma State University in a talk titled “Bollypolitics.”
Free and open to the public, the event begins at 5:10 p.m. on May
14 in Cruess Hall 1003.
Gehlawat will offer an in-depth exploration, based on his recent
book (Bollypolitics: Popular
Hindi Cinema and Hindutva), of the evolving landscape of
Bollywood cinema in response to recent socio-political changes in
India, including a surge in sectarian violence and the ascent of
Hindutva, or Hindu nationalism, under Prime Minister Narendra
Modi’s leadership.