It’s the summer of Barbenheimer. With two blockbuster movies opening on the same day last month, people have surged back into theaters. We’ll discuss some of the most popular and intriguing recent films, and how movie-viewing has changed over the past few years. Panelists: Jon Cavallero, Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies, Bates College. Founding director of the Bates Film Festival.

Jon Cavallero, Associate Professor and Chair of Rhetoric, Film and Screen Studies at Bates College and Founding Director of the Bates Film Festival will introduce Bollywood’s unique cinematic style, as well as its global power, particularly in the developing world where Hollywood’s sales have lagged.

Jon Cavallero joined the Italian Radio Hour to discuss his 2011 book Hollywood’s Italian American Filmmakers: Capra, Scorsese, Savoca, Coppola, and Tarantino.

We are delighted to also report that Dr. Jon Cavallero, Associate Professor and Chair of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies, Bates College, worked with us on selecting this year’s films…

As a special treat for this last in the classic film series, we will have some assistance in making our own conclusions about the revered “film noir” with an in-person,…

Professor Jon Cavallero gives a talk to the Maine Film Center on Stanley Tucci’s and Campbell Scott’s Big Night.” Maine Film Center

In sharing his list of the top 30 films of the 2010s, Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies Jon Cavallero notes how such lists tend to “say at…

A Film Festival Across the State of Maine The Grapes of Wrath  Please join the Department in a showing of Ford’s classic film. Tuesday, February 5th at 7:00 pm Muskie…