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Dolly Parton the icon with platinum blond hair helmet, blue eye shadow and yellow chiffon dress
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Harry Langdon; Copyright Rock Negatives / MediaPunch 2026
Dolly Parton in 1977

We’ll always love Dolly Parton, Dollyologist explains

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woman sits on blue cushion on a purple rug with green walls and a purple curtain with two cameras or lights set in front of her
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Matt Perko
Professor of time-based arts Shana Moulton in her UCSB studio

Artist Shana Moulton to speak at Humanities Decanted
Man sitting at a desk with clocks in the background points his finger angrily
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Peter Finch as anchorman Howard Beale in “Network.”

The profound prescience of a 1970s masterpiece
two men in a black and white photo in the desert with one pointing out to the horizon and the other behind a 1950s motion film camera
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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

How oil companies shaped early cinema in Iran and Iraq
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Film and Media Studies faculty sweep major national society awards
color photograph of a grizzly bear in the wild
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UCSB student documentary on California grizzlies to screen at SBIFF
Black woman with a box of popcorn sits in movie theater
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Matt Perko
UCSB's Wendy Eley Jackson

UCSB filmmaker Wendy Eley Jackson’s ‘The Other Roe’ at SBIFF
The table of contents from Mona May's book, “The Fashion of Clueless”
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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.

How ‘Clueless’ used costumes to create its characters
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Star panel to discuss moviegoing in an evolving marketplace
A man with shaggy hair and a beard drives a car while looking in the rearview mirror
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Leonard DiCaprio stars in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another,” edited by UCSB alum Andy Jurgensen

“One Battle After Another” editor, alum Andy Jurgensen, to discuss the political thriller on campus
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.

Student Emmy nomination goes to UCSB team for 'The Circus Monkey'
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

Seeking inner peace, finding moral rot
two trucks high five

UCSB psychologist contributes to DreamWorks’ ‘Mighty Monsterwheelies,’ now on Netflix
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