FSU School of Communication

Two FSU alumni team up on film shown at Sundance Film Festival

Published: January 30, 2019 | 10:23 am | Posted in: Arts & Humanities, News

Members of the film team who made "I Snuck Off the Slave Ship."

Two Florida State University graduates are attending the renowned Sundance Film Festival, the largest showcase of independent films in the country, to participate in the premiere of a film they both worked on. Film editor Joy Elaine Davenport and videographer Pablo Correa, both graduates of FSU’s School of Communication, collaborated on the film “I Snuck […]

FSU professor offers expertise on project honoring civil rights icon

Published: February 22, 2018 | 10:50 am | Posted in: News, University News

Professor Davis Houck is Florida State University’s Fannie Lou Hamer Professor of Rhetorical Studies.

Davis W. Houck, Florida State University’s Fannie Lou Hamer Professor of Rhetorical Studies, is offering his expertise to help guide the production of a new documentary and curriculum about civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer. Houck, whose research interests include the Black Freedom Movement, is teaming up with Tougaloo College in Mississippi and the Kellogg […]

FSU researchers find plus-size fashion models help improve women’s psychological health

Published: June 7, 2017 | 1:41 pm | Posted in: Education & Society, Health & Medicine

Professors Russell Clayton and Jessica Ridgway found women are more likely to pay attention to and remember average and plus-size models in the media compared to thin models.

A new study by Florida State University researchers reveals women are more likely to pay attention to and remember average and plus-size models in the media compared to thin models. Women also experience enhanced psychological health after viewing plus-size models, according to the study published this week in the journal Communication Monographs. Russell Clayton, assistant […]