Penn Film & Media Pioneers
Schedule of Events
9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Opening Remarks
- Timothy Corrigan, Director, Cinema Studies, University of Pennsylvania
9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Pioneers
- Moderator: Peter Decherney, Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies, University of Pennsylvania
- Katherine Sender, Assistant Professor of Communication, University of Pennsylvania, on Eadweard Muybridge and non-fiction film at Penn
- Michael Chaiken, Film Curator, International
House, on Amos Vogel
Douglas Gomery, Professor of Media Studies, University of Maryland, on William Paley and CBS
11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Cinema Studies Students
- Moderator: Timothy Corrigan, Director, Cinema Studies, University of Pennsylvania
- Cristina Alberto, Penn senior
- Margaret Hennefeld, Penn senior
- Michael Highland, Penn junior
- Michael Kleiman, Penn senior
- Emilie Ritzmann, Penn senior
1:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Current Film and Media Teaching and Research
- Moderator: Karen Beckman, Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Endowed Assistant Professor in Film Studies, University of Pennsylvania
- Peter Decherney, Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies, University of Pennsylvania, on copyright history
- Paul Messaris, Lev Kuleshov Professor of Communication, University of Pennsylvania, on Grad-School B-Movie, a feature film produced by Penn students and faculty
- C. Edwin Baker, Nicholas F. Gallicchio Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania, on media ownership
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
New Pioneers
- Moderator: Warren Lieberfarb, Chairman, Lieberfarb & Associates
- Douglas Belgrad, President of Production, Columbia Pictures
- Duncan Kenworthy, Managing Director, DNA Films Ltd. and Toledo Pictures
5:00 p.m.
Concluding Remarks
- Rebecca Bushnell, Dean, School of Arts and Sciences, Thomas S. Gates, Jr. Professor and Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania
Reception to follow