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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

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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.”
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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
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color photograph of a grizzly bear in the wild
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Black woman with a box of popcorn sits in movie theater
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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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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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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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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