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Department of Film, Television, and Media (FTVM)
Recent News
Graduating Seniors: Filmmaker and Cancer Survivor Frank Parkinson
FTVM major Frank Parkinson has made two award-winning documentary films, and his story is only just beginning.
Like Dylan in the Movies
Alum Peter Jaysen describes producing the new Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown,” through a pandemic and an industry strike, as akin to being a fireman. He wouldn’t trade the experience for anything.
In the Department of Film, Television, and Media, we create and study the moving image as seen on multiple screens—on the big screens of movie palaces, the cineplex, the art house and the film festival; on small screens ensconced in mammoth fifties consoles and those of giant flat-screened visual glory. With a strong undergraduate curriculum of production and studies, a burgeoning doctoral program in film, television, and media and a faculty of award-winning scholars and media makers, the Department of Film, Television, and Media offers a vibrant intellectual and artistic community here in the Midwest/Great Lakes region.