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Department of Film and Media Studies

http://www.filmandmedia.ucsb.edu/
The UCSB Department of Film and Media Studies began as a small film studies program in 1973, comprised of interdepartmental faculty and visiting lecturers. The department now includes internationally recognized scholars, filmmakers, curators, and educators. It also is the home of the journals Camera Obscura, Screening Noir, and the long-running AFI Routledge book series, edited by Edward Branigan and Charles Wolfe. In 2005, the department initiated its M.A./Ph.D. Program in Film and Media Studies, and shortly thereafter was renamed the Department of Film and Media Studies. With the 2007 groundbreaking for the Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television, and New Media, the department’s teaching, production, and screening facilities will be expanded, making it one of the leading international film and media centers for graduate and undergraduate study and research.
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Probing “Presence”: Photography and Policing in Colonial South Africa

SSMS 2135 2135 Social Sciences and Media Studies Building, Santa Barbara, CA

TALK: Lorena Rizzo (University of Bielefeld & Harvard University) Probing “Presence” – Photography and Policing in Colonial South Africa The presentation starts from research conducted in the Western Cape Archives in 2012/3. While working on a collection of photographic albums produced in a Cape Town convict station in the late 19th and early 20th century, I came across a pair [...]

Women in Chinese Silent Cinema

SSMS 2135 Social Sciences and Media Studies Building, Santa Barbara, CA

In this lecture, Paul Pickowicz will screen compelling clips from Chinese silent-era films of the 1920s and 1930s.  Pickowicz will emphasize the diverse roles played by women and ask questions about why the women seen on screen, including such iconic figures as Ruan Lingyu, Li Lili, and Wang Renmei, were far more important than men to the success of Chinese [...]

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