Film and Digital Media
2017-18 General Catalog
101 Communications Building
(831) 459-3204
film@ucsc.edu
http://film.ucsc.edu
Program Statement | Course Descriptions
Faculty and Professional Interests
Professor
Lawrence Andrews
Documentary, sound, animation, installation
Sharon Daniel
New media and interactive documentary; social, economic, environmental and criminal justice; socially engaged art; community-based public art in information and communications environments; social and political aspects of information design; documentary forms and ethics
Eli E. Hollander, Professor Emeritus
Jonathan Kahana
Documentary film and media; film and politics; American film history; essay film; cultural and social theory; media publics; arts of historical re-enactment; war and cultural memory; audio culture; disciplines of listening
Charles L. Lord, Professor Emeritus
Margaret Morse, Professor Emerita
Rick Prelinger
Critical archival studies; personal and institutional recordkeeping; access to the cultural record; media and social change; ephemeral cinema; amateur and home movies; participatory documentary; digital scholarship; cinema and public history
B. Ruby Rich
Documentary film and video; new queer cinema; feminist film history; Latin American and Latina/o cinema and other global/regional cinemas; U.S. independent film and video; the essay film; film festival studies; the making/marketing of foreign films in the U.S.; writing, editing, and journal submission
Warren Sack
Software design and media theory
Shelley Stamp
Film history, theory, and criticism; silent cinema; early Hollywood; women's filmmaking; film censorship; histories of moviegoing; feminist approaches to cinema
Gustavo Vazquez
Film and video production, documentary and experimental cross-cultural experiences in film
Associate Professor
Irene Gustafson
Documentary theory and practice, experimental film/video, production design, gender and queer studies
L. S. Kim
Television history and theory, racial discourse, feminist criticism, Asian-American cultural theory and production, industrial practices and social change in both mainstream Hollywood and alternative media
John Jota Leaños
Documentary animation, social documentation, critical ethnic studies, social art practice, community arts, Chicana/o art and culture, new media, critical media studies, cultural studies, documentary photography, installation art, public art and interventionist art practice
Peter Limbrick
International cinemas, especially Arab and Middle Eastern cinemas and Australasian cinemas; postcolonial theories and settler colonialism; theories of globalization and transnationalism; intersections of race, gender, and sexuality; queer theory; film and video history and historiography
Irene Lusztig
Film and video production, experimental ethnography and essayistic nonfiction; representations of historical memory; archives, propaganda and training films; feminist film practices; medical film; autobiographical filmmaking; interactive documentary; editing
Yiman Wang
Theory of difference; film history and theory; colonial/semi-colonial/postcolonial/postsocialist modes of media production and exchange; border-crossing film remakes; silent cinema; translation theory and cinema; acting theory/practice and ethnic star studies with focus on Anna May Wong; transnational connections and ramifications of Chinese cinema and documentary; fan culture; East Asian cinemas; critical animal studies and moving images
Assistant Professor
Anna Friz
Sound studies, media history, sound production, radio and transmission art, media art installation and performance, methodologies for research creation, feminist theories of technology, community and pirate media
Jennifer Horne
Media citizenship; non-theatrical film and film exhibition; archives and technologies of information; film preservation; mass media and humanitarianism; cinema and media history and historiography; institutions, disciplinarity, and the politics of knowledge; feminist theory
Soraya Murray
Contemporary visual culture including: new media art, projected arts, photography, film, electronic games, theories of art and globalization, representations of otherness, cultural studies
Susana Ruiz
Game and transmedia design; games as expressions of activism and art; animation; participatory culture; social art practice; non-fiction storytelling; theory/practice hybridity; animation; Theatre of the Oppressed; critical and liberatory pedagogy; expanded documentary; interaction design; worldbuilding; transmedia production, scholarship and activism
Jennifer Maytorena Taylor
Social documentation, Latino and Latin American communities, public education, popular culture, religion, incarceration and justice, urban and community development, collaborative practices in journalism and production, transmedia
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Professor
Julianne Burton-Carvajal, Professor Emerita, Literature
Teresa de Lauretis, Professor Emerita, History of Consciousness
Rosa Linda Fregoso, Professor Emerita, Latin American and Latino Studies
Herman S. Gray, Sociology
Cultural studies, media and television studies, black cultural politics, social theory
Donna J. Haraway, Professor Emerita, History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies
David S. Marriott, History of Consciousness
Poetics, black cultural studies, literary and psychoanalytic theory, visual culture studies, black cultural theory and philosophies of race, caribbean modernism, Fanon studies
Associate Professor
Neda Atanasoski, Feminist Studies
New media and film; critical race and ethnic studies; feminist theory; human rights and humanitarianism; war and nationalism; religion and secularism; post-socialist politics and culture in Central and Eastern Europe
Revised: 09/01/17
