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Film and Media 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.

Europe’s hidden Black Africans of the Renaissance

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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
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An illustration of a bright red hand holding a 1950s era microphone
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Courtesy Carol Stabile
This illustration appeared on the cover of 'Red Channels,' a 1950s-era newsletter by an anti-Communist group that contained names of supposed subversives in the entertainment industry.
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Beautiful Black woman sitting in a dark theater with a prop box of popcorn
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Matt Perko
UCSB lecturer and producer Wendy Eley Jackson spotlights advocacy in a compelling new documentary.
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Portrait of Leah Bleich
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Taylor Finlay
Director Leah Bleich brings her first feature to the campus where she got her start in filmmaking.
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two scientists in green vests talking to each other
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Mapping Alzheimer's Productions
Colombian neuroscientist Francisco Lopera, left, and UCSB neuroscientist Kenneth S. Kosik
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white man holding camera with many people behind him who are Black
Chris Jenkins filming in South Sudan
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image of a woman from the film Memoria
"Memoria," staring Oscar-winner Tilda Swinton, kicks off the Panic! film series
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glitched mosaic of images and data
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Laila Shereen Sakr
VJ Um Amel, "Boys on the Gaza Beach," digital mosaic, 2014
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a small group of student filmmakers gather footage on Santa Cruz island
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Ian Kellett
Student filmmakers (foreground, from left) Ryan Grant, Jade Ipina and Catherine Scanlon filming the sunset on Santa Cruz Island.

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Black female news anchor on tube television set.
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Courtesy
Marilyn F. Solomon hosts her weekly prime-time program “News in Review,” 1981.
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classroom with student of color and a Black professor
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Matt Perko
“Everyone writes from the lens of their experience or where they allow their imagination,” says film & media studies lecturer Wendy Eley Jackson, pictured at far right.