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“You Want Me to Watch Listening to Kenny G!!!?: An Interview with Penny Lane,” by Professor of Art History Scott MacDonald, was published as a web exclusive in the current issue of Cineaste magazine.

Professor of Art History Scott MacDonald was recently interviewed for Conversations Across Screen Cultures.

For many Hamilton students, a trip to the Howard Diner delivers little more than a late-night meal. But for Yenesis Alvarez ’22, it provided an unexpected academic opportunity. “I remember [during] my freshman year,” she recalled, “this random guy at the diner came up to me and was like, ‘Hey, do you want to learn about our business program?’”

William Greaves: Filmmaking as Mission, co-edited by Professor of Art History Scott MacDonald, was recently published by Columbia University Press.

Flash Flaherty, a new book co-edited by Professor of Art History Scott MacDonald, was recently published by Indiana University Press.

It was a pretty great winter-break job for a student of cinema: A Chicago musician hired Devin Mendelson ’22 to create videos for a website that remembers victims of the pandemic. As it turned out, his work was widely viewed.

Hamilton College has received a grant from the Academy Foundation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to spotlight the work of filmmaker William Greaves.

A Washington Post article reviewing the explosive growth of Christmas-themed movies included Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate’s observations on the phenomenon.

What makes Christmas movies so popular https://theconversation.com/what-makes-christmas-movies-so-popular-127972 is the question Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate answers in a Dec. 6 essay published by The Conversation and appearing in publications around the world.

Landing in the right job after college can often feel as stress-inducing as preparing to take a director’s cue: ready, set, action. Luckily for students at Hamilton, opportunities to explore just about any profession are available through the Career Center, including the field of film production.