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Laurie OuilletteProfessor, University of MinessotaMA, Media StudiesLaurie Ouellette is Professor of Communication Studies and Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, where she is currently Department Chair. She works across the interdisciplinary fields of critical media and cultural studies, with a focus on media and popular culture’s role in shaping, governing and regulating bodies, subjectivities and differences (gender, sexuality, race, ability, class). Her recent book Lifestyle TV (2016) draws from social and political theory to situate television as a cultural technology of citizenship, lifestyle, labor and self-making. She also recently co-edited Keywords in Media Studies (2017) with Jonathan Gray, and is currently working on a new book project on Precarity Media. Laurie is co-author of Better Living Through Reality TV: Television and Post-Welfare Citizenship (2008), author of Viewers Like You? How Public Television Failed the People (2002), co-editor of Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture (2009), editor of The Media Studies Reader (2012) and editor of A Companion to Reality Television (2014). Her research has appeared in a range of journals such as European Journal of Cultural Studies, Cultural Studies, Television & New Media, Cinema Journal, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, Media, and in edited collections and anthologies. |
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The MA in Media Studies gives students experience in creative media making, critical analysis, and entrepreneurialism. The Media Management MS offers the practical experience you need to succeed in today's media industries. The Documentary Studies Certificate program provides an opportunity to study documentary filmmaking in a small, tightly focused program. The Media Management Certificate Program provides a strong foundation of management principles and leadership skills to find work in the ever-changing global media landscape.
Annual Events
Over three evenings, short documentaries made by students in the Documentary Media Studies graduate certificate program are screened for the public. The films are the products of a year of study in documentary production, history and theory. The program has just completed its tenth year.
This annual event features film and video works produced by students taking graduate, undergraduate, and certificate classes in the School of Media Studies. Finalists are selected by an external jury of film professionals.
New School graduate students exhibit and discuss their works-in-progress in this popular monthly media workshop and screening series. Presenting students receive constructive feedback on their film, video, and audio work.
Mixed Messages is an annual exhibition showcasing outstanding creative work by graduate students in the School of Media Studies. Selected by a panel of distinguished jurors, projects include installations, interactive experiences, Web-based projects, and works on paper.
Kinoscope is a screening series designed to foster dialogue about film as cinematic art. Kinoscope events include discussion and analysis at the end of each program. Kinoscope’s mission is to enhance the awareness and understanding of the film and filmmaking process by screening a wide variety of national and international films.
Immediacy is a student-centered online journal produced by the School of Media Studies that provides a space for fresh approaches and perspectives on the understanding of media.