Recent News

The Walla Walla Movie Crush (themoviecrush.com), which Professor Warren Etheredge co-founded with his partner, Nancy Dragun (who works at the UW in CBE), was named one of the 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World by Moviemaker Magazine, alongside such stalwarts as SXSW, Telluride, Slamdance, and Clermont-Ferrand.
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Professor Ahern co-edited an In-Focus section in the Fall 2025 issue of the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, entitled "Images and Infra(Structures)" and co-wrote the 
Amal Eqeiq (PhD 2013), Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and current Chair of Arabic Studies at Williams College, has published a new book,…
On December 3rd, New York, NY, the Modern Language Association of America announced it is awarding its sixteenth Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature to Jane K.
For those wanting a break from holiday movies, Cinema & Media Studies faculty and grad students offer suggestions.  Continue reading on UW College of Arts & Sciences News 
UW Cinema and Media Studies Alumni Writer/Director of "I Watched Her Grow." Upcoming Project: "Diwata"
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Welcome to our second Halloween installment, where we ask movie buffs Champ Ensminger and Ungsan Kim what movies they recommend if you like a scary fix for the holiday. Kim, assistant professor of Asian cinema at the UW, is interviewed.
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Professor Ungsan Kim (Adjunct Assistant Professor, Cinema and Media Studies) was recently interviewed by Northwest Asian Weekly about Asian horror films. In the interview, Professor Kim is asked if Asian horror is scarier than American horror, along with his recommendations for Asian horror films. The full interview in two installments is available online: