Film in the 21st century has completely shifted its identity from the big screens in theatres to the small screens we carry with us every day. This means the study of entertainment, especially what we understand as ‘cinema’ to be, has been redefined, precisely because of how our use of entertainment has changed. This is
Rachel Kinnard teaches Fashion: Culture and Industry, one of the variations of CCI 304 Creative and Cultural Industries in Practice, and recently she’s also been working on a project called the Fashion and Race Database with the founder of the project, Kimberly Jenkins, professor of Fashion Studies at Ryerson University in Toronto. The Fashion and
This past fall, Daniel Godes (’21, Business Administration major and CCI minor) was approached by Creative and Cultural Industries Assistant Professor, Dr. Jamie Larkin to help create buzz about the relatively new CCI program, Godes’s concept – to create a student club, but one that would be a little different from your typical clubs across
Wilkinson College’s Creative and Cultural Industries has a place to officially call home. The program that launched in Fall 2015 recently celebrated its grand opening of the center, located at 428 N. Glassell Street, with CCI Program Director, Patrick Fuery. “Tony Soprano once said ‘buy land, God’s not making any more’ – and that is
The Creative and Cultural Industries Program at Chapman University (CCI) has partnered with the Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) to offer our students the chance to design and deliver a series of public engagement workshops at the museum. OCMA is currently housed in a temporary location as it moves from its site in Newport
In June 2017 Wilkinson College hosted the Building EU-US Networks Through the Creative and Cultural Industries Conference here at Chapman University in the Sandhu Residence and Conference Center. This conference was based on the residency projects, themes of CCI as regional and global processes and established and emerging trends in the field. This was a
Our third resident from the European Union has just arrive – Dr. Julian Hanich. Dr. Hanich is a German academic who currently holds a post at the University of Groningen (Netherlands) as Associate Professor of Film Studies. His first monograph entitled Cinematic Emotion in Horror Films and Thrillers: The Aesthetic Paradox of Pleasurable Fear came out with
Wilkinson College and the MA Program in War and Society present, Women in War and Peace, on Tuesday, March 7, 2017 in the Fish Interfaith Center at 7 p.m. ( official event page ). This interdisciplinary speaker series explores the ways in which the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI) have enabled women around the
Wilkinson College’s initiative in Creative and Cultural Industries has led to an invitation to present to the European Union in Washington DC. Addressing delegates from all 28 member states, Dean Patrick Fuery, Dr Kelli Fuery (Dodge College), Natalie Lawler (Arts Preparator) and Shannon Halverson (coordinator of the CCI) spoke on the College’s work in this