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January 2019
D’Vonte Johnson’s Kickstarter for The Rally Rig
Our student D'Vonte Johnson's Kickstarter for The Rally Rig enabling those with physical limitations to be able to shoot film which he has designed with the engineering students at UCSB has gone live on Kickstarter now.
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Beyond the Spill: The History and Politics of Oil in California (Day 1/2)
The Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Energy Justice in Global Perspective presents a two-day symposium to commemorate the 1969 Santa Barbara oil disaster and its aftermaths: BEYOND THE SPILL: THE HISTORY AND POLITICS OF OIL IN CALIFORNIA Thursday and Friday, January 24-25, 2019 THURSDAY, JANUARY 24 5:00pm - 8:00pm Digital Arts and Humanities Commons + Wireframe Studio (Music 1410) Opening Reception and Exhibition Featured speakers: Brenda Longfellow (Filmmaker, Cinema and Media Studies, York University) Mellon Sawyer Seminar Artist in Residence Emily Roehl (Mellon…
Find out more »Beatles Revolutions: Let It Be
Director Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s documentary Let It Be (1970) was originally intended to showcase the band’s creative process and to represent a return to form during a time when creative and interpersonal disagreement weighed heavily on the group. Instead, the film stands as an elegy for the Beatles, immortalizing the tensions between them, as well as the virtuosity of their iconic final rooftop performance. Musician and producer Alan Parsons will join moderator David Novak (Music, UCSB) for a post-screening discussion.
Find out more »Beyond the Spill: The History and Politics of Oil and California (Day 2/2)
The Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Energy Justice in Global Perspective presents a two-day symposium to commemorate the 1969 Santa Barbara oil disaster and its aftermaths: BEYOND THE SPILL: THE HISTORY AND POLITICS OF OIL IN CALIFORNIA Thursday and Friday, January 24-25, 2019 FRIDAY, JANUARY 25 9:00am - 3:30pm Multipurpose Room (Student Resource Building) Beyond the Spill Symposium 10AM - PANEL 1 Teresa Sabol Spezio (Environmental Analysis, Pitzer College) Bhavna Shamasunder (Urban and Environmental Policy, Occidental College) Discussant: Javiera Barandiaran (Global Studies,…
Find out more »Point of No Return
Soaring at 28,000 feet without a drop of fuel, nothing is predictable: not the weather, not the technology, and certainly not the fate of a man, alone for five days in a fragile, first-of-its-kind aircraft with nothing but ocean below. Point of No Return takes you behind the headlines of the first solar-powered flight around the world, where two courageous pilots take turns battling nature, their own crew, and sometimes logic itself, to achieve the impossible. Their aim is not…
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Script to Screen: The Favourite
Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite (2018) is set in the early eighteenth century. England is at war with France, but duck racing and pineapple eating are thriving nevertheless. A frail Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) occupies the throne. Her close friend Lady Sarah Churchill (Rachel Weisz) governs the country in her stead while tending to Anne’s ill health and mercurial temper. When Abigail Masham (Emma Stone) is hired as a new servant, her charm endears her to Sarah. Sarah takes Abigail under…
Find out more »The Raw and the Husky: Music Vocal Qualia and Gender Politics in Post-Millennium Tamil Cinema
Amanda Weidman, Bryn Mawr College Wednesday, February 6, 2019 | 3:30-4:45 pm | Music Room 1145 This talk will examine the reorganization of singing voices and vocal aesthetics in the music of Tamil cinema, contrasting the ideals for male and female voices from the 1960s and 70s with new ideals that have emerged since the 1990s, in the wake of Itndia’s economic and cultural liberalization. Based on ethnographic research among playback singers, music directors, and sound engineers in the Tamil…
Find out more »Script to Screen: A Quiet Place
The year is 2020 and most of Earth’s human and animal population has been wiped out by sightless creatures of unknown origin. Directed by John Krasinski, A Quiet Place (2018) explores one family’s struggle to survive in a desolate New York City in an era of complete and utter silence. As Earth’s newest invader is attracted to noise, even the slightest of sounds can be deadly. We are delighted to welcome Scott Beck and Bryan Woods (screenwriters/ executive producers) for the 50th installment of Script to Screen,…
Find out more »Beatles Revolutions: I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Set against the backdrop of Beatlemania, I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978) centers on the comical quest of six New Jersey teens to see the Beatles at their 1964 performance on the set of the The Ed Sullivan Show. Robert Zemeckis’ directorial debut imagines the power of a musical phenomenon to shape a cultural moment. One of the first collaborations between writers Zemeckis and Bob Gale and producer Steven Spielberg, I Wanna Hold Your Hand is the story of fans whose…
Find out more »Cultural Industries and Digital Platforms: Global Music and Television
With the international growth of digital networks in the early 21st century, many commentators predicted a more democratic future for cultural production and consumption. This talk investigates the accuracy of such predictions, mainly focusing on the case of music but also commenting on developments in television. The increasing power of streaming services as gatekeepers to music and television content brings with it the increasing penetration of giant tech corporations and start-ups into the realm of music and television, with business…
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