RSVP for our 2 events next week!
Yale Professor Francesco
Casetti
on
"Media and the Truth"
April 10, 7:30-9:30p
NeueHouse Hollywood
From Plato to the current day, society has grappled with the question of truth and how it is presented in the media. Join Francesco
Casetti
, Chair of Film and Media Studies at Yale, for a conversation about
Media and the Truth
.
Francesco is the author of six books, co-author of two books, editor of more than ten books and special issues of journals, and author of more than sixty essays.
During the '70s and '80 his research has been mostly focused on semiotics of film and television, in particular about genres, intertextuality, and enunciation. His major achievement was an extensive study on the implied spectator in film (
Inside the Gaze) and an edited book on television and its imagined audience.
During the '90s he increasingly moved toward an original combination of close analysis and ethnographic research of actual audiences, introducing the notion of "communicative negotiations."
More recently he explored the role of cinema in the context of modernity and the reconfiguration of cinema in a post-medium epoch, comparing this shift with the rise of cinema at the beginning of the 20th Century. His next project is an wide-ranging analysis of the anxieties that cinema raised in the first decades of the 20
th Century, compared with the iconophobic tradition and with the fears triggered by the contemporary media.
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Thursday, April 13, 8-9:30p
Melrose Umbrella Co., Los Angeles
Free RSVP for our Social Mixer with UVA Entertainment Club of LA on Thursday April 13 at Melrose Umbrella Co. Join us for our Yale in Hollywood social mixer teamup with the University of Virginia Entertainment Club at the Melrose Umbrella Co. on Melrose Ave. Meet alumni in entertainmnet from Yale and UVA at this top rated bar on Melrose. Cash bar. Valet parking available. Contact: Yale in Hollywood Social Chair
Amanda Glassman
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Yale in Hollywood women discuss
how to increase Women in Entertainment
We celebrated International Women's Day with Yale women discussing their roles in entertainment, including film, TV, agencies, entertainment startups and more.
We discussed career paths, advice for women getting into entertainment. and actions steps that we can take individually, within our companies, communities, and the Yale network to increase more women in entertainment. Thanks to our speakers:
- Moderator: Elizabeth Greer, Actress. YSD (Bates Motel, Ray Donovan, The Shield)
- Maria Burton, Five Sisters Productions
- Kristen Schwarz, Fox Broadcasting Company, Manager Comedy Programming
- Gillian Horvath, Beauty and the Beast TV show, Producer
- Dara Eliacin, FilmNation Entertainment (Arrival)
- Aly Moore, Spylight, Co-Founder and COO
Thanks to Elizabeth Greer, YSD for hosting, and Yale in Hollywood Talent Chair and Board Member Jeffrey Locker for this amazing selfie!
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Congrats Yalies at Oscars
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Tony Phelan discussed TV development
on Grey's Anatomy, Doubt
Yalie Tony Phelan described his path from acting / directing at Yale, to directing and executive producing on Grey's Anatomy at our Yale in Hollywood fireside chat in Beverly Hills.
- Every season of Grey's Anatomy, he would ask the cast and crew what they wanted to do and who they wanted to work with on the show over the next year. This helps your cast develop and grow.
- TV is satisfying because through telling stories that people connect to, 'You know that you reach through the medium and touch someone.' Tony said that people have personally told him "Thank You" for creating a certain character or a story shedding light on a certain issue.
- On his TV show Doubt, one of the characters is trans, influenced by his own trans son. Tony said it's important for TV shows to be diverse so people can see themselves reflected in the shows they watch. He learned the importance of diversity while working with Shonda Rhimes on Grey's Anatomy.
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Robinne Lee discusses Fifty Shades Darker,
Acting and Writing at our Fireside Chat in Beverly Hills
Yalie Robinne Lee discussed acting and writing, and her path from Yale to Hollywood at our Yale in Hollywood chat in Beverly Hills.
Robinne discussed working on the Universal Pictures film Fifty Shades Darker, which was #2 at the box office this past weekend with $46M. Robinne plays Ros Bailey, VP of Grey Enterprises, who is Christian Grey's second in command. Robinne did research and developed a backstory for her character, an African-American lesbian as a VP at Grey's firm.
Robinne also described moving to LA, and what she learned form working with actors like Will Smith, and more on Hitch, Seven Pounds, Being Mary Jane, etc.
She is active on social media, reading nearly all of her fans tweets, and replying to many of them. She joined some of her Twitter fans for an impromptu fan meet-n-greet at Santa Monica Pier during Fifty Shades' premiere weekend, and at the premiere. Follow @RobinneLee on Twitter.
Robinne has also written her first novel, "The Idea of You", about a woman who falls in love with a pop star via rendezvous around the world. Her novel releases June 13 and is available via pre-order.
Thanks Robinne, and congrats!
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Yale in Hollywood Summer Internship program launches
Get a Yalie summer intern via our Yale in Hollywood Summer Internship Program 2017 Our program has helped more than 150 Yale students get entertainment experience over the past 14 years. With the ongoing support of the Office of Career Strategy at Yale and the Association of Yale Alumni (AYA), last summer was a huge success. We're hoping to make 2017 even better.
The great news is that we've simplified the employer sign up process. As is always the case, even if you've participated in the program in the past, we need you to re-register your internship every year. But the process has been streamlined and can be found here, at the Yale in Hollywood Employer Sign up link -
Photo of last summer's interns at our Summer Internship welcome mixer in Culver City
If you have any issues or questions, you can reach out to our fantastic point person on campus, Derek Webster at derek.webster@yale.edu.
Please share this email with the appropriate person in your company (and with friends and colleagues at other companies). You don't need to have a Yale connection yourself for your company to participate, and we can accommodate whether or not you require the students to earn credit. Thank you for your ongoing support.
- Aaron David Kogan, Lisa Holme, Rebecca Arzoian Yale in Hollywood Summer Internship Program Supervisory Committee
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Congrats Yalies at Awards
OSCARS
Congrats
Yalie Tarell McCraney, won the Adapted Screenplay Oscar for writing the story Moonlight, which also won Best Picture. This is the second consecutive year that a Yalie won an Oscar for writing a film, which has won Best Picture (which also has -light as a suffix) after Yalie Josh Singer won last year for Spotlight. Tarell (in white tux) accepts his writing Oscar with director/writer Barry Jenkins (photo below).
Congrats Yalie Ezra Edelman won Best Documentary Oscar for his OJ: Made in America (photo right).
Congrats Yalies nominated for Oscars
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Meryl Streep, Actress, Florence Foster Jenkins
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Shawn Levy, Best Picture for producing Arrival
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Thomas Newman, composer Music Original Score for Passengers
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WRITERS GUILD AWARDS
Congrats Yalie
Tarell McCraney won the Original Screenplay award for the story of Moonlight at the WGA Awards in Beverly Hills. He wrote the story based on his own life experiences. Director Barry Jenkins wrote the screenplay.
SPIRIT AWARDS
Congrats Yalie Tarell McCraney won the Screenplay award for the story of Moonlight at the Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica. Moonlight won six awards, including best Film, Director, and Ensemble.
GRAMMYs
Congrats Yalie Michael Daugherty won the GRAMMY for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for his Tales of Hemingway.
Daugherty attended the Yale School of Music.
According to Wikipedia: "Daugherty's composition class at Yale included student composers who would later become unique and important voices in contemporary music. At Yale, Daugherty wrote his dissertation on the relationship between the music of Charles Ives and Gustav Mahler and the writings of Goethe and Ralph Waldo Emerson. He worked closely on this dissertation with John Kirkpatrick, who was the curator of the Ives Collection at Yale and gave the 1938 premiere of Ives' Piano Sonata No. 2: Concord Sonata. Daugherty also continued his interest in jazz where he worked with Willie Ruff and directed the Yale Jazz Ensemble."
This is his second GRAMMY after winning in 2011 for Deus Ex Machina.
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DGAs - Directors Guild Awards
Congrats Yalie M
ichael Beugg won a DGA Award for La La Land, best pic directing team at the DGAs Directors Guild Awards, Feb 4 at the Beverly Hilton.
Joe Weisberg
won the TV Drama Award for The Americans.
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PGAs - Producers Guild Awards
Yalie
Shawn Levy won the TV Drama award for producing Stranger Things, at the PGA Awards. He tweeted this red carpet pic (Shawn is far right) via his twitter @ShawnLevyDirect
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SAG Awards
Congrats Yalies nominated for SAG Awards:
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Meryl Streep
, Actress, Florence Foster Jenkins
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Courtney B Vance
, Actor TV Movie or Limited Series, People vs. OJ
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