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FMS Newsletter! Welcome to the Spring 2016 FMS Newsletter! In this issue you’ll find our usual blend of features about FMS classes, profiles of alums, and news about FMS events. Click here for our new website Inside this Issue From the directors—page 2 FMS events — pages 3-5 From the classroom — pages 5-7 Internships— pages 8 Anderson Cooper, anchor of CNN’s AC360°, met with student members of Tufts media organizations, including the Tufts Daily and the Tufts Observer, to share insights on his career and the news Alumni news — pages 9-10 industry before taking the stage at the 11th Annual Edward R. Murrow Forum on Issues in Journalism (see page 3). FMS Newsletter Send us your news! Changed jobs? Gone back to school? Moved? We want to hear from you. Email us at [email protected]. Do you know someone who might be interested in receiving this newsletter? Volume 8, Issue 2 Feel free to pass it along. Spring/Summer 2016 2 FMS News Notes from the FMS Director The first year of FMS has been an enormously exciting and busy one. Film and Media Studies Our first cohort of seniors just graduated, and we are ending the year Tufts University with over 50 majors, making us larger than many departments at 95 Talbot Avenue Tufts. We introduced several classes in the spring semester, including Global History of Cinema and Media Theory, and we are continuing Medford, MA 02155 to add courses in new areas, such as History of Animation, which will [email protected] be taught in the fall by world-renowned anime expert, Susan Napier. Due to the unprecedented student interest in filmmaking generated Malcolm Turvey—Director by the new major, next year we will also, for the first time, offer three [email protected] sections of Filmmaking 1, our introductory filmmaking course taught by Tufts alum Don Schechter and Experimental College Director 617-627-1103 Howard Woolf. Julie Dobrow—Co-director We are very grateful to the leadership team in the dean’s office, [email protected] especially Dean Nancy Bauer and Executive Administrative Dean Scott Sahagian, who have been unwavering in their support of FMS. 617-627-4744 Due to their help, we are excited to announce that a new 4K digital John Ciampa—Program Administrator projector and surround-sound system will be installed in the Tisch Library Media Room over the summer. These will prove invaluable in [email protected] delivering a first-class education in film and media studies to our 617-627-2155 students. Thanks to Deans Bauer and Sahagian, we were also able to hire two new staff members: Stacie Boucouvalas-Gianourakos, our Leslie Goldberg, J84—Internship Administrator staff assistant, and Natalie Minik, our technical support specialist who [email protected] will oversee our ever-growing supply of production equipment. 617-627-2007 This spring we continued to enhance the profile of FMS with an array of notable events. We welcomed Anderson Cooper for the annual Natalie Minik—Technical Support Specialist Murrow Forum, as well as film scholar David Bordwell, who gave a [email protected] talk about 1940s Hollywood films. Filmmaker Abigail Child, who just retired from the faculty at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Stacie Boucouvalas-Gianourakos—Staff Assistant visited to show some of her extraordinary films, and we remain very [email protected] excited about collaborating with our new colleagues at the Museum School. We also co-sponsored a series of talks and screenings by film studies faculty. You can read more about some of these events in this Student Assistants issue. Xander Landen, A16 We look forward to being in touch again in the fall with more exciting Ben Reytblat, A18 news about the growth of FMS. Until then, we wish you a very happy Conner Calabro, A17 summer. Malcolm Turvey, FMS Director A note from FMS Co-Director, Julie Dobrow After building the CMS program for almost two decades and helping to launch the Film and Media Studies major in the past few years, I’m going to be making a transition at Tufts. I have been asked to spearhead the development of a new program, focusing on children and media through the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development, and to work with the newly renamed Tisch College of Civic Life on the development of media and civic engagement initiatives. My appointment as a full-time faculty member at Eliot-Pearson and role as a Senior Fellow at Tisch will begin in the next academic year. I will continue to teach courses that count for FMS, to advise FMS students, and to work with all of the wonderful Tufts alums I have come to know so well over the years. I’m excited about these great new opportunities, which will be complementary to FMS and which will enable me to consolidate my teaching and research interests. My thanks to all of the colleagues with whom I’ve been so fortunate to work through CMS. I’m especially grateful to all of the students who have been such a joy to teach and to mentor, and to all of the alumni with whom I’ve been so privileged to collaborate. I’ve learned so much from all of you. I’m blessed to have formed relationships and friendships that will last a lifetime. And I look forward to continuing to work with you and to be in touch with you as I move my office over to Eliot- Pearson and begin work on these new initiatives. 2 3 Events Edward R. Murrow Forum 360°: Beyond the Headlines with Anderson Cooper By Julie Dobrow The excitement was palpable. Cohen Auditorium, packed to capacity, erupted in the kind of raucous cheers you’d hear for a rock star when FMS Co-Director Julie Dobrow introduced the guest of honor. CNN anchor Anderson Cooper took the stage, waving to the cheering throngs. In the 11th Annual Murrow Forum, interviewer Jonathan Tisch, A76, questioned Cooper about how his childhood was touched by tragedy (his father died when he was ten, his brother committed suicide when Cooper had just started college) informed his reporting on tragic situations like he encountered in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, Sri Lanka following the tsunami, and Ferguson Missouri. “It’s made me a better reporter,” replied Cooper, whose work on television has spanned stints on Channel 1, ABC, 60 Minutes on CBS, and CNN. Cooper later described himself as a “catastrophist” who expects the worst, tries to prepare himself for it and never loses his compassion for those who experience it. Tisch posed a range of questions, including about how Cooper conducted pointed interviews with politicians in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina (“I felt it was part of my job” he replied), why he so often had chosen to cover the Anderson Cooper on the Cohen Auditorium stage difficult stories overseas (“You have to go and be willing to with Jonathan Tisch, A76, at the 11th Annual Edward be open to what you see, to be changed by it, and I think it R. Murrow Forum on Issues in Journalism should horrify you and it should make you cry at night,”) and, of course, what he thought of the race for the White House in 2016 (“no one knows what to expect in the months to come…”). Prior to his public talk, Cooper spent some of his time at Tufts viewing part of the Edward R. and Janet Murrow archival collection, along with their son, Casey, and his family. Cooper also did a book signing of his new book written with his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, The Rainbow Comes and Goes. More than 100 people had lined up hours before the event for the chance to get a autographed book and take a selfie with the journalist sometimes known as “the silver surfer of cable news.” Cooper also conducted a session with representatives from The Tufts Daily, Tufts Observer, Her Campus, TUTV and the Tufts Podcasting Network. Cooper spent his time with the student journalists discussing his own career path, offering suggestions for getting a foot in the door and answering questions about how to cover stories in when you get emotionally involved with them, and how to interview difficult subjects. Each of the student journalists participating found him to be engaging and inspirational. One of the student editors remarked afterwards, “This was an opportuni- Anderson Cooper posing for a “selfie” with students ty of a lifetime and I will always remember; this as a highlight after signing a copy of his book for them of my time at Tufts.” Every year after the Murrow Forum organizers Dobrow and Neal Shapiro, A80, question what they will do next year 3 to top the event we just had. The event with Anderson Cooper made us wonder all the more! 4 Events On the Air By Julie Dobrow Amidst the sophisticated paraphernalia of their hidden meth lab, Walter White (a.k.a. “Heisenberg”) rolls his eyes. “My god, that is the best coffee I’ve ever tasted!” “Sumatran beans,” says a slightly chagrined Gale Boetticher, his new assistant. “And I also have to give credit to the grind.” This iconic scene played on the big screen in Cohen Auditorium to kick off the 2016 “On the Air: Media Careers for the Networked Generation” event. Why Breaking Bad? “Because,” said FMS Co-Director Julie Dobrow in her Julie Dobrow, co-director of the Film and Media Studies introduction, “we have three Tufts alums that were centrally program, moderates the keynote panel with Alex Marin, A involved in this award-winning television show.
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