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Peter Finch as anchorman Howard Beale in “Network.”

The profound prescience of a 1970s masterpiece

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Multiple faces of young people and the movie poster for Hiding in Plain: Youth Mental Illness Sight

UCSB Arts & Lectures resumes its Justice for All series with examination of mental health
Diego Ratto turns knobs on a controller in front of a laptop with a guitar strapped to his shoulder
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Graduate student receives award in international acousmatic music composition
Gerardo Aldana wears a suit and stands in front of a Wakanda Forever poster which features King Namor
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Gerardo Aldana at the world premier of Wakanda Forever. Among other things, he consulted on King Namor's headdress and spear, pictured in the poster.

Historian Gerardo Aldana, an expert in Mesoamerican civilizations, consults on “Wakanda Forever,” propelling his research into the MCU — and ending up on screen
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A 35-millimeter landscaped portrait from the "Get Shorty" press kit, as seen in "Still Film"

Experimental ‘Still Film’ interrogates cinematic memory
Jill Beale standing in front of garden

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indian man and woman on a dinner date

A Ray of Light
Dancers posing dramatically in a group on stage

Delight in the Arts

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Graphic treatment of Hollywood's Embassies book cover and Ross Melnick's headshot

How Hollywood Cinemas Conquered the World

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