PMA at Sundance 2024
If you’ve ever thought about attending the internationally acclaimed Sundance Film Festival, now’s your chance! Come to the info sessions to get the details.
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PMA Professor Bruce Levitt's Film Selected to Screen at the Arts In Action Festival in New York City
PMA Professor Bruce Levitt's film, Before Time / After Time, has been selected to screen at the Broadway Advocacy Coalition’s Arts In Action Festival in New York City’s Theater Row on Sunday, September 10th at 2 p.m. A 45-min film that narrates the stages leading to imprisonment and the struggle of...
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PMAPS Colloquium Explores the Stigma of Marginalization in Performing and Media Arts
Titled “Dancing Communities of Another Kind: Performance, Intersectionality, and Violence Against Immigrant Women of Color”, the presentation is an elaborate exploration of what it means to live and perform at the margins of immigration discourse, focusing specifically on the experiences of Latine a...
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PMA Associate Professor Kristen Warner cited in The 19th News.
PMA Associate Professor Kristen Warner was recently cited in an article titled "What reality TV and the presidential race have in common," written by Errin Haines for The 19th News.
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INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE: Auditions for DESDEMONA
Department of Performing and Media Arts is thrilled to invite students to audition for DESDEMONA BY TONI MORRISON on Tuesday, August 29 at 7:00 p.m. in the Flex Theatre in the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts
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Cornell Cinema’s season showcases cult classics, Disney, greatest films of all time
The cinema's fall schedule includes "Rocky Horror Picture Show," as well as some of the British Film Institute’s top movies of all time.
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PMA is hiring students for a range of fun and exciting positions!
The Department of Performing and Media Arts is looking to hire students for a range of fun and exciting positions! Whether you prefer to run the show or build the show, there’s a place for you at the Schwartz Center.
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Karen Jaime receives tenure and promoted to associate professor
Congratulations to Karen Jaime, who recently received tenure and promotion to associate professor in Cornell University's Latina/o Studies and Department of Performing and Media Arts effective July 1, 2023. Jaime joined Cornell in 2014 and received her Ph.D. in 2013 from NYU in Performance Studies. ...
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PMA Associate Professor Samantha Noelle Sheppard Quoted in BBC News Article
“The Blind Side” is not the first film to be criticized for a ‘white saviour’ narrative, PMA Associate Professor Samantha Noelle Sheppard tells BBC News: “What we see with these kinds of films is that even stories about Black lives are not really about Black people. They are about the benevolence an...
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