Category: Films

SOJC Associate Professor Gabriela Martínez Chosen for CSWS Post

May 9, 2012—Whether she is documenting the deadly effects of open-fire cooking and heating on children and women in Mayan homes in highland Guatemala, rescuing the history of indigenous women in Mexico, or writing about the geographical expansion and institutional…

Bollywood’s Global Push—UO Professor Interviewed in The Christian Science Monitor

June 13, 2011—The Christian Science Monitor: Bollywood’s global push. The Christian Science Monitor contacted Sangita Gopal, UO associate professor of English and a Bollywood expert, for a feature article on India’s prolific film industry. “Sangita Gopal attributes the enduring popularity…

Former CSWS Grant Recipient Makes WAVES

Editor’s Update: Homefront Heroines reached its funding goal on June 29 June 2011—Kathleen M. Ryan, Ph.D., received a CSWS graduate student research grant in 2007 while working on her doctorate in the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication.…

“Whatever Happened to Zulay?”—a documentary film by Sharon Sherman

115 Lawrence Hall 1190 Franklin Blvd. UO campus Free Film Showing Whatever Happened to Zulay? An Otavaleña’s Journey is the story of a remarkable Ecuadoran woman who went through several life changes and maintained some continuity in her life, a…

Dance and the Hollywood Latina—Priscilla Peña Ovalle

Dance and the Hollywood Latina a new book by Priscilla Peña Ovalle UO assistant professor of film and media studies and a CSWS affiliate Now available from Rutgers University Press From the Rutgers University Press website: “Dance and the Hollywood…