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Professor of VES Giuliana Bruno, the department’s only senior faculty member with a focus on film studies, hailed the EPC’s decision as a “wonderful moment” for Harvard...
...Traditionally, cinema studies in many universities are very often attached to literature departments, which is a more conservative way to see film as an offspring of the narrative,” Bruno said. “For Harvard to recognize finally the study of film as a creative tradition—not in a department of literature but in a department of art—is a forward-looking move...
...proposal approved by the EPC Wednesday puts Harvard on the cutting edge of the field, according to Bruno...
Chomet (who did use computer animation for the film's cars, boats and trains) has a canny design eye to match his narrative wit. The old woman is stocky and clubfooted, a compact metaphor for stubborn dedication; her grandson is so spindly he could ride Giacometti's Chariot; Bruno the dog has more personality than 101 Dalmatians. The movie isn't aimed at kids, but they will find plenty to beguile them. And don't worry that the film is French; it has hardly any dialogue. Doesn't need it. The gnarly imagery and the movie's understanding...
When Giuliana Bruno arrived at Harvard’s Visual and Environmental Studies department (VES) 13 years ago to teach subjects including film theory, she says the department had never offered tenure to a film studies specialist. Two previous hires with expertise in the field, she says, had never made it past assistant professor. VES is a small department, with 11 permanent faculty teaching this term, and today, more than four years after receiving tenure, Bruno is still its only full professor with a focus on film studies. But after years of painstakingly laying the foundations for a degree-offering...