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Founded in Fall of 2002, CRAS is the official student organization of the Oklahoma State University Screen Studies Program. CRAS meets monthly during Spring and Fall semesters and is dedicated to unearthing obscure and hard-to-find narrative films, while providing a forum for informal discussion and cooperative research within OSU's Screen Studies community. CRAS is a harbor for serious cinephiles: pursuers of the obscure, the outré, the eaubscène. At CRAS meetings you are just as likely to hear an impassioned discussion about medium specificity as you are to join in a debate about the relative merits of 1930s Wheeler and Woolsey comedies. You will not see Citizen Kane at CRAS, or À bout de souffle, or Rear Window, because we know you already own the DVDs. |
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Teesri Manzil India, 1966 dir. Vijay Anand |
CRAS has sponsored public lectures by screenwriter D.V. DeVincentis, film critic Kevin Jackson, and Hong Kong Second Wave director Evans Chan. Former members of CRAS have gone on to major careers in the media industry and have pursued advanced degrees in Film and Media Studies at New York University, the University of Minnesota, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Michigan, and the University of Florida. CRAS officers for 2009-10 are as follows: |
| Bodyguard USA, 1948 dir. Richard Fleischer |
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| In Spring of 2009, a new CRAS logo was created for the group by Belgian artist Christophe Szpajdel, the legendary underground calligrapher whose intricate, deco-inspired logos have appeared on the t-shirts and album covers of numerous death and black metal bands from around the world. |
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Il grande silenzio Italy/France, 1968 dir. Sergio Corbucci |
| In addition to participating in CRAS meetings and events, members of CRAS regularly attend exciterbulb, a monthly screening series featuring avant garde and experimental films, also shown on OSU's main campus. CRAS is registered with OSU Campus Life and is funded through SGA. Questions? Feel free to email CRAS for more information. |
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