Cinema Studies

Cinema Studies Program

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Department News

January 20
Alum’s movie wins award
Kit Bland `95 recently produced the movie, The Line, which was named “Best Short-Short” at the Festivus Film Festival in Denver this past weekend. More »
December 6
Director John Waters to speak on campus
Famous director and pop icon John Waters comes to Lake Forest to speak on March 24, 2011, the culmination of a two-month-long film festival that begins in January. More »
April 15
College adds programs in cinema and legal studies
The college has added two new minors, cinema studies and legal studies, for the fall of 2010. More »

2004's Before Sunset

Filmaker Richard Linklater

Oscar-nominated director and independent filmmaker, Richard Linklater, visited campus in January 2010 to give and interview and visit classes.

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Professor Don Meyer, former Professor David Amrein, and Meg Golembiewski ’10 composed an original score for Alfred Hitchcock’s silent film The Lodger, which Hitchcock completed without a score. Meyer, Amrein, and Golembiewski wrote their score for the 40-member Lake Forest College Chamber Orchestra, and the Silent Film Society of Chicago invited the orchestra to accompany a showing of the film at Chicago’s Portage Theater.

As a study of moving images, the minor in Cinema Studies draws courses from art, communication, history, modern languages, music, philosophy, and sociology, creating a richly complex interdisciplinary conversation on film and video.

By focusing on the historical as well as the current and future uses of moving images, the Cinema Studies minor is not limited to the study of physical film but includes electronic and digital video; it also does not restrict the study to specific places of viewing. Courses focus on the history, theory, culture, and criticism of film and video, in addition to encouraging hands-on experience in digital video production.

Cinema Studies Events

John Waters Lecture 2011

In a comedy-filled routine titled “This Filthy World,” John Waters discussed his careers in film, art, and literature, ranting about his life, pop culture, and things that make him crazy as only John Waters can. The event was sponsored by the Ruth A. Winter Lecture Series, and was the culmination of the two-month long John Waters Film Festival on campus.

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Richard Widmark '36 (1914-2008) was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in 1947's Kiss of Death, directed by Henry Hathaway.