Ben Murphy
Senior Directs Documentary Featured in Festival
(Reprinted from Tennessee Today)
With a couple of films already to his credit, Ben Murphy is part of UT’s first graduating class of cinema studies majors.
The new cinema studies program, part of the College of Arts and Sciences, offers an interdisciplinary major and minor devoted to studying the artistic, cultural, and political dimensions of motion pictures.
There are currently forty-two majors and thirty-seven minors in the program, with at least eight graduating this spring.
“Our program prepares students who wish to pursue careers in film and television, but that’s just part of the story,” said Paul Harrill, associate … Read more “Senior Directs Documentary Featured in Festival”