Archive for April, 2015

West is San Francisco will be screening at the 58th San Francisco International Film Festival as part of the BOOMTOWN:REMAKING SAN FRANCISCO event. West is San Francisco is a collaborative film project by B. Berzins, Jim Granato, Nicole Minor, Doug Schultz, Anjali Sundaram, and Phoebe Tooke. It’s a frenetic fusion of night and day, movement…

In Flood of Images, Bernie Cook offers the most in-depth, wide-ranging, and carefully argued analysis of the mediation and meanings of Katrina. He engages in innovative, close, and comparative visual readings of news coverage on CNN, Fox News, and NBC; documentaries and the HBO drama Treme. Cook examines the production practices that shaped Katrina-as-media-event, exploring…