Two CAMS Majors Present Their Senior Compositions
Tom Schmidt and Alison Jarzyna, two Senior CAMS majors, will present their senior composition projects this week. The presentations will last approximately half an hour each, Tom Schmidt beginning his presentation first and Alison Jarzyna presenting second.
Tom Schmidt will be speaking on "Revolutions in Radio". His talk will focus on how redefining radio in light of technological advancements and a fast evolving society can help the medium retain its relevance and bring about new possibilities for radio as a whole. People can view it online at www.revolutionsinradio.com
Alison Jarzyna will explain how film fan culture and film industry interact. Below is a description of her presentation:
From the earliest days of the studio system, film fan culture worked as a dialogue between the film industry and the local audiences who attended the movies. The mediating factor between these two was the film stars who sold the studio's product and conveyed the cultural ideas and values of the time. Though film history focuses on studio histories and the biographies of stars whose work is still readily accessible, the local approach and what was typical of the era has been overlooked. Case studies of three such “forgotten” film stars -- Marguerite Clark, Wallace Reid, and Sessue Hayakawa --will hope to provide a film history that negotiates the relationship between Hollywood’s Paramount-Lasky studios and film fans in Northfield.
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