Charles Acland (CURC, Communication Studies) has won the 2010 Kovács Award for best essay in film and media studies.

This prize is awarded annually by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. The award recognizes the most original essay — published in a peer-reviewed journal during the previous year — that significantly advances scholarship in film and media studies.

Acland’s winning article “Curtain, Carts and the Mobile Screen” appears in the fiftieth anniversary issue of Screen 50:1 (2009). This is the first time this twenty-one year old essay award has gone to a scholar at a Canadian university.

Find out more about Charles Acland, see his faculty profile.

Posted on February 3, 2010