Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

Sociology, Science Fiction Film, and Artificial Intelligence What prompted the idea for the course? A colleague in the ...

From its inception at the hands of Mary Shelley in 1818 (scholars nowadays unanimously agree that Frankenstein, or, The ...

A colleague in the sociology department used to teach a course using a film genre from the 1940s and 1950s that presented a bleak view of modern societies. I ...

A Hollywood director has accused Elon Musk of copying his designs from a film featuring a self-driving taxi and humanoid ...

What might be the most seismic moment in American cinema? Film "speaking" for the first time in The Jazz Singer? Dorothy ...

The Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting is an international screenwriting competition established to identify and encourage talented new screenwriters. The 2024 Nicholl competition is closed ...