By Shaden Al Darawshe <\/p>\n\n\n\n
UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 Media practice can engage with fields not commonly associated with \u201ctraditional\u201d communication studies, American University of Sharjah filmmaker and faculty member Dr. Bentley Brown said during a Feb. 10 session in the Student Center\u2019s Floating Theatre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brown, an assistant professor in the Department of Media Communication, emphasized the value of introducing unfamiliar fields of knowledge within media contexts. He emphasized that media studies are inherently interdisciplinary, as one uses the technology of media to explore the world and its infinite topics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Around 30 people from the AUS community, including students and staff attended the talk, titled \u201cCan Art and Astrophysics Co-Exist,\u201d part of a series of events held by the department to showcase its faculty members\u2019 research. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
During the event, Brown presented images from NASA and quoted figures ranging from Kim Kardashian to an astrophysicists, part of his effort to encourage media students to reach out and introduce themselves to a range of fields, astrophysics among them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brown also screened his film \u201cBehind the Sun<\/em>,\u201d a short experimental documentary filmed in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to show how media practice can engage with fields that are far away from \u201ctraditional\u201d media studies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The film, which has screened at several international film festivals such as Hot Docs, where it premiered, and most recently at Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai, uses astrophysical metaphors in a reflection on the director\u2019s time in Jeddah from 2015 to 2018. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In one scene, a love interest\u2019s face was covered with an image of the sun, linking his personal story to cosmic imagery. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Shaden Al Darawshe UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 Media practice can engage with fields not commonly associated with \u201ctraditional\u201d communication studies, American University of Sharjah filmmaker and faculty member Dr. Bentley Brown said during a Feb. 10 session in the Student Center\u2019s Floating Theatre. Brown, an assistant professor in the Department of Media Communication, emphasized the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33,30],"class_list":{"0":"post-5521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"tag-aus","9":"tag-cas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}