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Thank You For a Wonderful Conference! ‘Stars & Screen,’ our Behind the Scenes story...

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We would like to express our profound thanks to everyone who came out and worked so hard to make our ‘Stars & Screen’ Film & Media History Conference really terrific. Much gratitude for your wonderful presentations, films and enthusiastic reception to our symposium. Thank you for making it so special. We really appreciate all your fine efforts. The Stars & Screen conference was a great success! Many thanks for the outstanding responses we received from those attending our conference. Much appreciated. We are gratified that the many scholars, faculty, students, alumni, and parents who attended were delighted with all the wonderful presentations at our Stars & Screen conference. Thank you to everyone who generously donated their time and support to make the ‘Stars & Screen’ Film & Media History Conference possible. Special thanks, gratitude and much appreciation to the Rowan University College of Communication and Creative Arts and the CCCA Deans o...

Good New About American Teens!

HealthDay More U.S. Teens Shunning Drugs, Alcohol By  Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, July 19, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Over the last four decades, more American teenagers have decided to say no to drugs and alcohol, a new report shows. "There has been a steady increase in the proportion of students graduating high school who report never having tried alcohol, marijuana, tobacco or any other drugs," said study author Dr. Sharon Levy. She directs the adolescent substance use and addiction program at Boston Children's Hospital. For example, while about 5 percent of high school seniors had embraced abstinence in 1976, that figure had risen to 25 percent in 2014, according to the most recent poll of nearly 12,000 students. Surveys conducted among 8th and 10th graders between 1991 and 2014 unearthed a similar trend, with abstinence jumping from roughly 10 percent to almost 40 percent among the former, and from 25 percent to more than 60 percent among the latter. There ...

‘Stars & Screen’ Film & Media History Conference | September 27-29, 2018 – Schedule

‘ Stars and Screen ’   Film and Media History Conference September 27-29, 2018 Rowan University Glassboro, NJ Conference CFP + Hotel Info ‘Stars & Screen’ Film & Media History Conference – Schedule – Program PDF All events are scheduled on the Rowan University, Glassboro campus . – Map Thursday, September 27, 3:30 pm – 6:15 pm Keynote Speakers – Bozorth Auditorium Thomas Schatz , University of Texas at Austin “Film History, Industry, Genres”             Charles Maland , University of Tennessee “ Chaplin, the Tramp, and the Dynamics of an Evolving Star Image ”             Matthew Bernstein , Emory University “ Columbia Pictures” Brian Neve , University of Bath “Stars, Gangsters, and Hot Air: Key Largo (1948) and Post-war Hollywood Politics”             Cynthia Baron , Bowling Green Stat...