Articles from August 2019

Associate Professor of Music, Nathan Platte, published in The Cambridge Companion to Gershwin

Friday, August 30, 2019
Platte has published a chapter on George Gershwin's musical contributions to Shall We Dance (1937) and A Damsel in Distress (1937) in The Cambridge Companion to Gershwin.

Fall 2019 Film Club: British Cinema

Thursday, August 29, 2019
The schedule for the Fall 2019 Film Club will be The British Invasion: British Genre Cinema from Post-WWII to Present.

Cinematic Arts Assistant Professor Mike Gibisser to premier film at Toronto International Film Festival

A short film by Michael Gibisser, assistant professor in the University of Iowa Department of Cinematic Arts, will have its world premiere Sept. 6 at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Iowa professor leaves mark on global film scene

A thesis film made by Christopher Harris in 2000 is seeing a resurgence. The University of Iowa associate professor and his film, “still/here,” were featured this summer in a retrospective of black filmmaking at the Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland.