Filmmaker Teresa Konechne presents her film, Woven from the Land: Women. Prairie. Culture, in Weld Hall’s Glasrud Auditorium at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 9th. A panel discussion on land use, women’s experiences in rural culture, and life on the prairie follows the screening. Panelists include Anthony Adah, a faculty member in MSUM’s Film Studies Department, Kandace Creel Falcon, a faculty […]
Anthony Adah, Film Studies, and Film Studies Honors Apprentice, Simone LeClaire, co-presented a paper titled, “Love and Desire in Failed States: Melodrama and Nationhood in Nollywood Video Films” at the biennial Film & History Conference, Nov. 11-14 in Milwaukee. The paper analyzed the formal and stylistic suitability of this genre for addressing times of socio-political crises.
Anthony Adah, Film Studies, presented a research paper at the Midwest Popular Culture Association, Minneapolis (Oct 1-3) titled “The Skin of the Lens: Land and Body in Indigenous Documentaries.” He was also elected to the Executive Council as Member-At-Large. In that capacity, Dr. Adah’s immediate duties include being one of the assessors of Undergraduate Papers and working with a team tasked […]
Last weekend the Film Studies department, including professors Anthony Adah, Raymond Rea, Tom Brandau, staff member Mike Stromenger and 43 students, attended the three-day festival held in Aberdeen, which included screenings, workshops and a discussion with Academy Award-winning actor/director Kevin Costner.