Research + Creative Work

Amy E. Borden, Director of the School of Film and Associate Professor of Film Studies, published her most recent essay, "Shadows, Screens, Bodies, and Light: Reading the Discursive Shadow in the Age of American Silent Cinema" in Screen Bodies 5.1, an interdisciplinary journal of experience, perception, and display.

Kristin Lené Hole coauthored Film Feminisms with Dijana Jelača, which offers a global and updated overview of the history, present-day concerns, and future of feminist film and theory. She teaches a course on this topic.

Jungmin Kwon, faculty of film studies, released her book Straight Korean Female Fans and Their Gay Fantasies, published by the University of Iowa Press. 

Courtney Hermann, film faculty, collaborated with celebrated author and film production educator Michael Rabiger to co-author the 7th edition of the popular textbook Directing the Documentary, published by Routledge. Three PSU School of Film alumni are featured on the cover:  Anchitta Noowang, Sean Oulashin, and Ross Reaume

Routledge recently published the fourth edition of School of Film Associate Professor Dustin Morrow’s book Producing for TV and Emerging Media co-authored with television producer Cathrine Kellison and Western Washington University professor Kacey Morrow (Prof. Morrow’s sister).

Check the PSU Vimeo page for student work in film production classes.

The School of Film hosts an annual curated showcase of the best in production and writing. Prizes are awarded for best essays and films in various categories. 

Chessa Casper's film called Rotten Fruit was accepted at the NW Film Forum's Local Sightings Film Festival in Seattle. Their film screened during the virtual festival that took place during September, and they won a Jury Award for Best Experimental Short.

The School of Film annually awards prizes to the best essay written during the academic year.

After PSU Film relocated online and at home after quarantine orders in Oregon last spring, our filmmakers continued to make films that both directly and indirectly explore our corona virus-changed world.