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Peter Finch as anchorman Howard Beale in “Network.”
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Archival photograph on the back cover of “Pipeline Cinema: The Cultural Infrastructure of Oil Extraction in Iran and Iraq” (UC Press, 2025) by Mona Damluji
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UCSB's Wendy Eley Jackson
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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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Leonard DiCaprio stars in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another,” edited by UCSB alum Andy Jurgensen
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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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Nori Muster was a devotee of the Hare Krishna movement of the 1970s and 1980s
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Jane Ward is a professor and chair of UCSB's Department of Feminist Studies