The Graduate Field Committee (GFC) in Film Studies is a cooperative effort by film faculty across the College of Arts and Humanities to promote the study of cinema at the University of Maryland.
The GFC supports student research through its Graduate Colloquium in Cinema and Theory each spring and film-related events such as symposia, screenings, and seminars throughout each year. GFC faculty are also available to advise graduate students on their research in Film Studies.
The Graduate Field Committe in Film Studies is supported by the College of Arts and Humanities and the Graduate School. For more information about us please click here.
Symposium on Crime and Cinema
Dr. Sherri Parks, Associate Professor of Women's Studies, interviews David Simon, UMD Class of 1983.
On Friday, March 1, the Graduate Field Committee in Film Studies and the College of Arts and Humanities co-hosted the a Dean's Lecture Series event with David Simon, co-creator of The Wire and Treme. Please click here for video of the conversation.
This event was preceded by a discussion between David Simon and University of Maryland graduate students.
Symposium on Crime and Cinema
On Friday, March 2, the Graduate Field Committee in Film Studies, the Center for Literary and Comparative Studies, the Department of French and Italian, the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, the College of Arts and Humanities, and the Miller Center for Historical Studies presented a Symposium on Crime and Cinema. This event was free and open to the public and well attended by the faculty, students, and friends of the university.
This event featured three talks:
Oliver Gaycken, Assistant Professor of English, University of Maryland
Occluded Conduits: Fantastic Realism, Urban Crime, Les Vampires
Seminar with Karla Oeler, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies, Emory University
On her book, A Grammar of Murder
Andrea Goulet, Associate Professor of Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania
Savage in the City: Spatializing Reform in Eugène Sue's Les Mystères de Paris (and The Wire)