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Film and Media Studies

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Black woman with a box of popcorn sits in movie theater
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Matt Perko
UCSB's Wendy Eley Jackson
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The table of contents from Mona May's book, “The Fashion of Clueless”
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Courtesy Insight Editions
The looks May created for the film helped define a generation and solidified fashion as a key character in the story.
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A man with shaggy hair and a beard drives a car while looking in the rearview mirror
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Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures
Leonard DiCaprio stars in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another,” edited by UCSB alum Andy Jurgensen
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woman on stage with cello and composer
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A still from UCSB student Travers Tobis's short film "The Circus Monkey," nominated for a Student Emmy Award.
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A women sitting in a red vinyl booth inside a diner
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Courtesy Jason Lapeyre
Nori Muster was a devotee of the Hare Krishna movement of the 1970s and 1980s
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woman in dark light and shadow with red streaks of light
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Matt Perko
Jane Ward is a professor and chair of UCSB's Department of Feminist Studies
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European Renaissance painting of Black woman blowing bubble gum in a gold frame on a blue wall with highlighted images of other Black Renaissance figures
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Courtesy UCSB MCC
Connecting the past to the present, the documentary "We Were Here" sparks conversations about representation, belonging and historical memory.
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two colorful prints in exhibition space
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Ingrid Bostrom
Corita Kent (b. Fort Dodge, IA, 1918 - 1986), “harness the sun” and “solw,” details, both 1967, Serigraph on paper, Courtesy of Corita Art Center, Los Angeles. Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara.
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a women with a digital camera records the landscape from an overlook
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Ryan Grant
Coastal Media Project student Catherine Scanlon gathering footage for her team's documentary short film