FMS Events: Fall 2019

Fall 2019

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FMS Halloween Festivities

Trick or Treat on Monday, October 26

FMS Information Session, Tuesday, October 27

Virtual

Part 1 of our FMS Halloween Festivities began with some trick or treating! Several students stopped by the FMS entrance at Barnum Hall to say hello to faculty and staff -- and grab a Halloween candy treat.

FMS Halloween Festivities continued with our program information session. Students attended a Zoom meeting hosted by FMS faculty and staff to learn about the FMS program, the major/minor, upcoming courses, internships, and more! Students who attend were qualified to win a raffle prize, which was won by Julio Delgado.

We are already looking forward to next fall when we can resume our in-person event, which will include socializing, networking, and yummy treats!

Does anyone recognize the building in the poster? It's Barnum Hall in it's original state! Wonder if the ghost of Jumbo was roaming the halls!?

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I Want to Have Some Fun Too": Gender, Genre, and Marriage in the Postwar Crime Sitcom

Rescheduled from spring 2020

Monday, October 26

Virtual

Boston Cinema Media Seminar with Catherine Martin in conversation with Kathleen Battles. In 1945, years before Lucy Ricardo became the iconic representation of zany, rebellious housewives, married women like Pamela North, Nora Charles, and Jean Abbott went even further in resisting their restricted postwar roles: where Lucy acted out her domestic discontent by trying to break into the relatively safe world of show business, Pam, Nora, and Jean successfully forced their way out of the home and into the dangerous, decidedly masculine world of criminal investigation. In so doing, they directly challenged their husbands' - and, by extension, patriarchal - dominance over post-World War II systems of law, order, and justice in American society. In this paper the author argues that the radio crime sitcom - a generic hybrid of family comedy and crime drama - became a valuable forum through which producers and audiences explored changing ideas about marriage and gender in the decade after WWII. Investigative wives' domestic frustrations, expressed at the level of narrative and vocal performance, spoke to the many women who resisted returning to the home after their wartime labors. However, by appearing to bow to their husbands' expectations and accepting some constraints on their freedoms, investigative wives were also able to negotiate a space of limited freedom for themselves within the evolving, if still conservative, institution of postwar marriage. Still, investigative wives ultimately proved too great a challenge to the precarious postwar domestic ideal, and they - and even, eventually, Lucy - were replaced by more compliant, domestic housewives in the family sitcoms that came to dominate 1950s television.

Tufts major Steph Hoescht shared her thoughts on the talk in her article in The Tufts Daily, which can be read here.

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Conversation with Jaws Screenwriter, Carl Gottlieb

Thursday, November 19 Virtual

Jennifer Burton hosted a conversation with Carl Gottlieb in which he talked about his storied career and his work as a screenwriter on 'Jaws'.

Drew Weisberg of The Tufts Daily attended the event and captured Carl's story, which can be read here.