The Film & Media Studies Program at George Mason looks at all kinds of moving images and critical approaches to them. We explore feature films and documentaries, new media, and the ever-changing forms of television, in order to understand film and media's many effects.
This international symposium brings together artists, filmmakers, scholars and those affected by violence--from Latin America, the Balkans, and beyond--to discuss how the arts are deployed to represent past violence and reinterpret fundamental understandings about power, truth, and justice.
Peggy Oki is an artist, surfer, and activist currently living in California. While she was growing up in the 1970s, Peggy was the only female member of the Zephyr Skateboard team, featured in the award-winning 2001 documentary "Dogtown and Z-Boys."
Better This World follows the dramatic journey of David McKay (22) and Bradley Crowder (23), of Midland Texas, George W. Bush’s hometown, as they are transformed from political neophytes to accused domestic terrorists, arrested at the 2008 Republican National Convention.
