<p>What kind of film studies is available at UChicago? Are the courses good, who has gone on to better things in Hollywood and such from here?</p>
<p>I believe Chicago has one of the largest and oldest film collections in the world. The Cinema and Media Studies concentration is relatively new, early '90s, I believe. I don’t follow that committee very closely, but there have been several successful graduates of Chicago in theater and film, the guy who wrote Proof, for example. Then there is “Mike Nichols, along with several Chicago alumni like Bernard Sahlins (A.B. 43), essentially developed American improvisational comedy by co-founding the Second City comedy troupe. Later on, he went on to become a noted Hollywood director, helming such films as Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf and The Graduate.” And there is, “Philip Kaufman (A.B. 58) who has directed or written over a dozen movies, including such notable films as the adaptation of The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfes book about the early space program. His first film, Goldstein, won the Prix de Nouvelle Critique award at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival. He has also directed a re-make of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) and has a story credit on Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), which of course features Indiana Jones, who is probably the most famous fictional U of C professor.” (quoted material from a Maroon archive).</p>
<p>Here is a link to the Committee (at Chicago, committees are like mini departments that can convey degrees, etc.):
<a href=“http://humanities.uchicago.edu/cmtes/cms/[/url]”>http://humanities.uchicago.edu/cmtes/cms/</a></p>