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Beate Allert recently published the edited work Comparative Cinema: How American University Students View Foreign Films (New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2008; 345 pages). It contains (in addition to an introductory chapter by the Professor Allert and a preface by Guy Stern) 19 essays by Purdue students.
BE_TWEEN, an exhibition of senior and graduate student artworks developed in the course Envision Art 01: the responsive screen, was organized by Fabian Winkler, Assistant Professor of Visual and Performing Arts in collaboration with Laura Arns, Associate Director, Envision Center for Data Perceptualization. The realization of student works for this exhibition was greatly supported by custom software interfaces developed for Envision Art 01 by David Braun, ITaP research programmer.
Patricia Hart has been named as Consultant on Hispanic Film at a workshop to be held in May and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities ($74,843). Directed by James Palmer, the workshop is titled "Reeling Them In: Invigorating the Humanities Through Film.” The project is a collaboration between Prairie View A&M University and Texas Southern University to prepare faculty at both institutions to develop and teach courses on the history and the critical interpretation of film.