Philip Nel, a former faculty member of the College of Charleston and now a Professor of English at Kansas State University, will be giving a talk on Dr. Seuss at 6:00pm in RSS 235. The talk is entitled “Was teh cat in the Hat Black? Seuss and Race in the 1950s.” Dr. nel is a scholar of children’s literature and author of several books, including Dr. Seuss: American Icon and, more recently, Crockett johnson and Ruth Krauss: How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and Transformed Children’s Literature. The talk is free and open to the public. You can download a flier here.

The Student Film Club resumes its meeting tomorrow night, with a screening of American Psycho (dir. Mary Harron, 2000). The film is being show as part of this semester’s dark films series. The film stars Christian Bale and is baed on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis.

Due to midterms, the Film Club is canceling tonight’s meeting. Meetings will resume after Spring break.

The 4th Annual Charleston Film Festival will be held at the Terrace Theatre, March 7-10. For more information, click here.

The Student Film Club resumes its weekly meetings tonight and will screen the dark comedy In Bruges (dir. Martin McDonagh, 2008). Starring Colin Ferrell and Brendan Gleeson. Join us at 7:00pm in ECTR 118.

The Student Film Club did not meet last week but will resume its film series, devoted to dark comedies, this Wednesday evening. The Film Club will screen the film Parents (1989). Director Bob Balaban is best known for his roles in the Christopher Guest films Waiting for Guffman (1996),Best in Show (2000), and A Mighty Wind (2006). Join us for some seriously dark hilarity, Wednesday at 7:00pm in ECTR 118.

The SCMS recently announced a new venture, an undergraduate conference to be held annually beginning this April at the University of Notre Dame. The purpose of the conference is to encourage undergraduate research in the field of film and media studies. Previously known as the Midwest Undergraduate Film and Television Conference, and the Notre Dame Undergraduate Film & Television Conference, the SCMS-U conference will be held at Notre Dame this year, but in subsequent years it will rotate across multiple universities to allow for wider access to undergraduates in the field. Film Studies minors are encouraged to submit a proposal for a 20-minute presentation on any aspect of cinema and media studies by midnight EST, February 4, 2013. For more information, click here. For assistance, don’t hesitate to contact the Film Studies advisor, John Bruns.

The final meeting of the semester will also include a screening of a Quentin Tarantino film, TBD. So join us in ECTR 188 tomorrow to learn all the latest about what is coming up for spring semester, and treat yourself to some Pulp Fcition, Reservoir Dogs, or Jackie Brown (depending on the vote).

The Student Film Club meets again, with a screening of Super Mario Bros. (dir. Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton, 1993) as part of its Cult Films series. Based on the hugely successful Ninentdo game franchise, this film bombed and bombed big (it lost nearly $20 million). But it’s achieved cult status since. So come and join us tomorrow night and help us figure out what, exactly, went so badly wrong.

Sponsored by the Québec Delegation in Atlanta and the Medical University of South Carolina, the AFFFF brings to Charleston five award-winning films, Friday through Sunday this week. All films are in French with English subtitles. Screenings will be held at the MUSC Auditorium of the Institute of Psychiatry, 67 President St (at Doughty St.), downtown. For more information, click here.