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FMA Associate Professor Preis’ documentary explores mental illness — WHYY

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A new documentary film by Associate Professor Eran Preis, FMA, explores the impact of severe mental illness on an entire family — his family. The film documents his son’s struggle with mental illness, and how it has affected Preis, his wife and their two other sons. Preis says he wants the film to prepare other families for the frequent changes that mental illness brings. “It’s the constant ups and downs, that’s what we have learned,” he said. “For a while, he goes to school, and he is doing very well, and then it just cannot hold, and it falls apart. That’s the constant struggle.”

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SCT alumni, faculty earn Barrymore glory

Six Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre went to Temple University School of Communications alumni and faculty Oct. 2. The awards are presented annually by the Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia.

The SCT winners are:

OUTSTANDING OVERALL PRODUCTION OF A MUSICAL
The Flea and the Professor — Arden Theatre Company
(Assistant Professor Ed Sobel is associate artistic director)

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A PLAY
James Ijames, THEA ’06 — Superior Donuts — Arden Theatre Company

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Krista Apple, THEA ’09 — In the Next Room, or the vibrator play — The Wilma Theater

OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE IN A PLAY
In the Next Room, or the vibrator play — The Wilma Theater
(featured former student Kate Czajkowski; Krista Apple, THEA ’09; and Luigi Sottile, THEA ’07)

F. OTTO HAAS AWARD FOR AN EMERGING PHILADELPHIA THEATRE ARTIST
James Ijames, THEA ’06

TED AND STEVIE WOLF AWARD FOR NEW APPROACHES TO COLLABORATIONS
Adjunct Professor Robert Smythe and the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia — Stravinsky’s l’Histoire du Soldat — Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

SCT alumni, faculty earn Barrymore glory

Six Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre went to Temple University School of Communications alumni and faculty Oct. 2. The awards are presented annually by the Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia.

The SCT winners are:

OUTSTANDING OVERALL PRODUCTION OF A MUSICAL
The Flea and the Professor — Arden Theatre Company
(Assistant Professor Ed Sobel is associate artistic director)

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A PLAY
James Ijames, THEA ’06 — Superior Donuts — Arden Theatre Company

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Krista Apple, THEA ’09 — In the Next Room, or the vibrator play — The Wilma Theater

OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE IN A PLAY
In the Next Room, or the vibrator play — The Wilma Theater
(featured former student Kate Czajkowski; Krista Apple, THEA ’09; and Luigi Sottile, THEA ’07)

F. OTTO HAAS AWARD FOR AN EMERGING PHILADELPHIA THEATRE ARTIST
James Ijames, THEA ’06

TED AND STEVIE WOLF AWARD FOR NEW APPROACHES TO COLLABORATIONS
Adjunct Professor Robert Smythe and the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia — Stravinsky’s l’Histoire du Soldat — Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Professor Postigo gives invited talk at Temple’s Center for Humanities

Professor Hector Postigo, BTMM, MMC, presented a talk on April 21, 2011, as part of the Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series at the Center for the Humanities at Temple University. The lecture, titled “The Digital Rights Movement: Free Culture Activism and the YouTube Generation,” explored the emerging “Free Culture Movement,” discussing its dynamics, ideology and impact on consumption and creation of mass media content. The case of the Free Culture Movement was used to weave together a number of themes currently debated by internet and digital media scholars in the field of mass communication. These include 1) the tensions between optimistic participatory audience viewpoints on the power of a Web 2.0 audience and critical perspectives on the cooptation of audience “labor” by increasingly complex corporate owned systems of participation 2) the tensions between techno-legal regimes that regulate and shape participation and the resistance to those regimes through legal and extra –legal means and 3) the emergence of participatory rights discourses among media consumers vs. the legal and corporate discourse legitimating authors’ rights.

Professor Postigo gives invited talk at Temple’s Center for Humanities

Professor Hector Postigo, BTMM, MMC, presented a talk on April 21, 2011, as part of the Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series at the Center for the Humanities at Temple University. The lecture, titled “The Digital Rights Movement: Free Culture Activism and the YouTube Generation,” explored the emerging “Free Culture Movement,” discussing its dynamics, ideology and impact on consumption and creation of mass media content. The case of the Free Culture Movement was used to weave together a number of themes currently debated by internet and digital media scholars in the field of mass communication. These include 1) the tensions between optimistic participatory audience viewpoints on the power of a Web 2.0 audience and critical perspectives on the cooptation of audience “labor” by increasingly complex corporate owned systems of participation 2) the tensions between techno-legal regimes that regulate and shape participation and the resistance to those regimes through legal and extra –legal means and 3) the emergence of participatory rights discourses among media consumers vs. the legal and corporate discourse legitimating authors’ rights.

Associate Professor Erickson named finalist for Adobe Design Award

Associate Professor LeAnn Erickson, FMA, is one of three finalists for the annual Adobe Design Achievement Award in the “Innovation in Motion and Video Education” category.

The winners of the international competition, for college and university faculty who use Adobe products in their classrooms, will be announced in Taipei, Taiwan, on Oct. 23.

Erickson teaches Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and After Effects in her classes and uses her recent documentary, Top Secret Rosies, as an example of how these programs can enhance a film. Specifically, she says the film uses archival photo manipulation, image layering, motion graphics and compositing.

More than 4,600 entries were submitted for consideration throughout all categories.

Watch the trailer of Top Secret Rosies here to see some of the visual techniques used in the film.

 

Associate Professor Murphy, BTMM, MMC, has book chapter published

A chapter by Associate Professor and BTMM Department Chair Patrick Murphy appears in The Handbook of Media Audiences, edited by Virginia Nightingale and published in 2011 by Wiley-Blackwell. The chapter title is “Locating Media Ethnography.” More information about the book is available here.