Events
Past Events
June 2020
2020 UCSB FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES GRADUATION RECOGNITION CEREMONY
Edited by Francisco Lopez, Katelyn Zamudio and Keith Boynton, motion graphics by Katelyn Zamudio, graphics Dana Welch Special Thanks to Dean John Majewski, Tom Lazarus and Michael Siegel download a pdf of the program Graduation Recognition Ceremony June 14, 2020 Wishing You Success in the Future Welcoming Remarks Bhaskar Sarkar Department Chair John Majewski Michael Douglas Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts Departmental Address Bhaskar Sarkar Film & Media Studies Senior Projects and Memory Highlights Compiled by Keith Boynton…
Find out more »August 2020
In memoriam: Tom Pollock (1943-2020)
All of us at the Department of Film and Media Studies and the UC Santa Barbara’s Carsey-Wolf Center are grieving the August 1 passing of Tom Pollock. Tom, a brilliant producer and storied lawyer turned film executive, was a dedicated champion of film and a great friend to UC Santa Barbara. Tom was instrumental in realizing his father Dr. Joseph Pollock’s vision for the Pollock Theater, a university landmark. In 2010, the dream to build a state of the art screening facility for…
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Department of Film and Media Studies Undergraduate Orientation
University of California, Santa Barbara | Department of Film and Media Studies Undergraduate Orientation | Fall 2020 Tuesday, September 29, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, On Line Part I: 40 minutes: 1:00 pm zoom link here Cristina Venegas: Welcome and Quick Introduction of Faculty and Staff (Faculty to BRIEFLY mention what courses they will be teaching in 2020-2021) Peter Bloom: What is Film and Media Studies? Chuck Wolfe: Learning as Discovery Joe Palladino: A Sense of Structure to the…
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106 Crew Production Pitches
Crew Production (106) 106 PITCHES 2020 link (will become active starting at Noon - Friday, Oct. 2) This challenging course offers students the opportunity to work collaboratively to produce a short film over 2 consecutive quarters. 4 films are selected by a panel of industry professionals and the producers of each film “hire” crew members and hit the ground running, working with 2 instructors through Pre-production, Production and Post before premiering their films on the last Friday of Winter Qtr.…
Find out more »TV News & Racial Justice in the U.S.: Critical Reflections on a 2020 Letter-writing Campaign
With Anna Everett, Brandy Monk-Payton, Lisa Parks, Jade Petermon In this timely one-hour webinar, Professors Anna Everett and Lisa Parks discuss a letter-writing campaign they initiated in the summer of 2020 to address the topic of black employees in TV news networks and the coverage of U.S. race relations in TV news. They will discuss the campaign’s origins and the responses it elicited, offering critical reflections about the process. Everett and Parks will be joined by two scholars who participated…
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Panel Discussion: Dialectics without Synthesis
This Film and Media Studies/Carsey-Wolf Center Colloquium will feature Naoki Yamamoto’s recently published monograph, Dialectics without Synthesis: Japanese Film Theory and Realism in a Global Frame (UC Press, 2020). The monograph explores Japan’s active but previously unrecognized contributions to the global circulation of film theory during the first half of the Twentieth Century. It is in an attempt to break with our conventional treatment of “theory” as the exclusive domain of the West. The event will feature brief presentations by…
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The Carceral Techno-Imaginary: Between Technological Seeing and Punishment in Black Mirror’s “White Bear” – Wendy Sung
Using the Sandra Bland arrest as a dialogical space, this talk analyzes season 2's episode of Black Mirror, the British anthology TV series, known as “White Bear” (2013). By reference to this televisual media context, I seek to illuminate the failures of the technological rescue narrative by putting this show into conversation with the techno-dystopian carceral imagination alongside the realities of US post-slavery Blackness, technology, and racialized surveillance. The visual capture of racial violence by emerging visual technologies has often been praised as a…
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Hieroglyphics of the Film: Stuplimity and Static in the Films of Ja’Tovia Gary – Kelli Moore (MCC-Steinhardt, NYU)
This talk examines the film and video oeuvre of Ja’Tovia Gary. It focuses on the strategies she employs to address blackness as both sociopolitical narrative and a material quality of film. Gary’s interaction with the staging of her experimental films and film as matter are historical and technical. By reference to the Giverny Suite film series, I recount how the filmmaker encouraged her audience to move about the screening space by thematizing the notion of “stuplimity,” following the writing of…
Find out more »Transworlding (II): Jahan Z Ahmed (Global Studies), “Infrastructures of Islamism in Cold War Pakistan”
This chapter maps the U.S. cultural Cold War institutions, their context, objectives and investments in Islamist imaginaries and how they collectively helped build information infrastructures for Islamist social worlds. It particularly focuses on the institutions involved in influencing print cultures i.e., the Congress for Cultural Freedom - Pakistan Committee (CCF-Pak) and Franklin Book Programs (FBP) and the physical spaces in Pakistan such as universities, publishing houses and libraries where they constructed alliances and patronage networks.
Find out more »March 2021
GMTaC Lab Research Lecture: “Silicon Valley’s Caste System: Race, Class and All Women Coding Boot Camps” by Professor France Winddance Twine, UCSB
Why do Black women comprise roughly 1.2% of technical workers in Silicon Valley technology firms? In this talk, Twine examines the 'inequality regimes' that currently operate in Silicon Valley and how recruiting practices shape the recruitment, retention, and treatment of technically-skilled women of diverse ethnic and class backgrounds.
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