A Few Montage Fragments in Search of a Commencement Speech

A special HopeForFilm TakeOver from James Schamus

[I was honored to have been asked to return to my alma mater, the University of California at Berkeley, to deliver this year’s commencement address for the departments of Film & Media Studies and Rhetoric. I took the occasion to make some connections between film theory, the work of the artist Carrie Mae Weems, the current battle to stop the Paramount W…