By Sean Metzger Sean Metzger is the Vice Chair of Undergraduate Studies at the UCLA Department of Theater and professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. He is a scholar who works at the intersections of several fields: visual culture (art, fashion, film, theater) as well as Asian American, Caribbean, Chinese, film,…
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Industry Conversations: Anupama Chopra
Anupama Chopra is a critic, author and the director of the Mumbai Film Festival. She began her career as a journalist with India Today, where she spent more than a decade writing extensively about Bollywood and interviewing major filmmakers and actors. Since 1993, she has written for international publications like The New York Times, The…
Author Conversations: Ross Melnick
By Ross Melnick Ross Melnick is Professor of Film and Media Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of “Hollywood Embassies: How Movie Theaters Projected American Power Around the World,” and “American Showman: Samuel ‘Roxy’ Rothafel and the Birth of the Entertainment Industry” (2012). Published by Columbia University Press, 2022. Beginning…
Author Conversations: Courtney Donoghue
By Courtney Brannon Donoghue Dr. Courtney Brannon Donoghue is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media Arts specializing in media industry studies, global media, and cultural studies. Her research broadly utilizes critical media industry studies approach, grounded in industry interviews and international fieldwork, to explore the intersection between local media professionals working for transnational…