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the earliest days of cinema, local communities had active film cultures with movie fans tracking their favorite films and stars. Unfortunately, much of this has failed to make it into mainstream film histories, and it seems difficult to get a whole picture of film history when so much is neglected. Forgotten Film Stars: Bridging Hollywood and Small Town Audiences proposes to understand film history as a dialogue between Hollywood and small town America, using lesser known silent era film stars as go-betweens, mediating the culture through the values they signified.
the earliest days of cinema, local communities had active film cultures with movie fans tracking their favorite films and stars. Unfortunately, much of this has failed to make it into mainstream film histories, and it seems difficult to get a whole picture of film history when so much is neglected. Forgotten Film Stars: Bridging Hollywood and Small Town Audiences proposes to understand film history as a dialogue between Hollywood and small town America, using lesser known silent era film stars as go-betweens, mediating the culture through the values they signified.
Prior to the advent of motion pictures, amusement in Northfield took many forms. At the Lyceum, built just a year after the town was established in 1855, residents gathered to hear local lecturers, debaters and musicians. The Lockwood Opera House which opened in 1872, presented popular vaudeville acts and minstrel shows as well as plays such as Uncle Tom’s Cabin. In 1899 “high class” theater found a permanent home in Northfield at The Ware Auditorium (or, The Grand, as it was renamed in 1916) which presented first-rate acts, and eventually films, that came through the town. 
To what extent is cinema the most direct, honest, and true vehicle for expression and meaning? Project: Meaning is a short film that, for the purpose of investigating the language of cinema, translates literary text directly from the page to the screen, denying context and focusing solely on the affiliation between “shot” and “sentence.” Its text—seven works of prose fiction and fourteen poems—is drawn from the Carleton English Department’s “Exam Reading List 2007-08.”
The time seems ripe to re-examine a mass media like radio, considering the drastic technological changes our society has undergone in recent years. 
In an increasingly mediated world, a world organized around cell phone use, instant messaging, the Internet, and digital image production, the ability to utilize communication media, and to engage in one’s own media making, has become a crucial life skill. Yet, media studies involves a lot more than learning how to analyze a film text, design a web site, or shoot and edit a video, as important as those skills may be.
Each year over Labor Day weekend, the town of Telluride, Colorado transforms itself from a small, rustic mountain community into a bustling center of cinematic activity as it plays host to the Telluride Film Festival. The festival has garnered a reputation of being one of the top film festivals in the world, premiering films that are among the most talked about and awarded of the year. The festival is acclaimed for its low-key atmosphere and high quality features, and last year I was given the opportunity of attending this incredible event as a part of the annual Telluride Film Festival Student Symposium.
Long before he went to college, Brandon Walker knew he wanted to be a journalist. At age 15 Walker secured a newsroom internship at WGNO TV in New Orleans; by his senior year in high school he was the weekend dayside assignment editor for the station.
