Film And Television (audio)

Make-up artist Michael Westmore talks about his film work (Raging Bull, Rocky, and his Academy Award for Mask), his 18 years working on Star Trek, and his role as a mentor on the Syfy Channel's show Face-Off. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 31624]

Latino: The Changing Face of America is a new documentary by Los Angeles-born filmmaker and UCSB alumna Roxanne Frias. She discusses the film's glimpse into the future of the world’s biggest economy, a future in which Latinos will form the largest demographic group. The discussion includes Chicano Studies & History Professor Mario Garcia and Cristina Venegas of UCSB Film and Media Studies. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 31623]

Michelle Dougherty, co-director of Sonic Sea, discusses this film that traces the connections between increased man-made ocean noise and fatal stress on ocean life. Michael Hanrahan, an educator and filmmaker who teaches environmental media storytelling at the University of California, Santa Barbara, moderates. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 31415]

Luciana Kaplan, director of the award-winning documentary La Revolución de los Alcatraces, talks about the genesis of her film and its subject, Eufrosina Cruz Mendoza, who was elected mayor of her town but her victory was taken away because she was a woman. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 31021]

Cairo Drive is a documentary exploration of Egyptian identity and change spanning the critical period before the revolution and up to the most recent presidential elections. Shot from 2009 to 2012 the film portrays the congested streets through encounters in traffic with taxi drivers, ambulance, traffic cops, and private citizens. The director Sherief Elkatsha talks with Professors Laila Shereen Sakr and Dick Hebdige from the UCSB Department of Film and Media Studies. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 30804]

David Gerrold, influential contemporary sci-fi writer and creator of genre-defining works such as the enduringly popular Star Trek episode, The Trouble With Tribbles, discusses his career across many media platforms to provide unique and valuable insights into the evolution and changing nature of the genre. Gerrold is interviewed by Word Farm Director Joe Palladino. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 30866]

Chang Yung-hsiang is the screenwriter of the classic film from the golden era of Taiwan cinema, Beautiful Duckling (1964). Michael Berr, Professor of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies and Director of the East Asia Center at UCSB, talks with Chang Yung-hsiang who has contributed to some of the greatest classics of Chinese-language cinema. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 31016]

The documentary CODE addresses the gender gap in computer science, especially in coding or programming. Robin Hauser Reynolds, the director/produce of the film, is joined by an expert panel to discuss the digital divide in tech and why women and minorities pass up studying computer science that lead to lucrative careers. Panelists: Cornelia Davis (Director of Platform Engineering in the Cloud Foundry team at Pivotal), Maria Charles (Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department, UCSB), Karen K. Myers (Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Associate Dean in the Graduate Division, UCSB) and Amr El Abbadi (Professor in the Computer Science Department, UCSB) Cynthia Stohl, Professor in the Department of Communication and Director of CITS, UCSB is the moderator. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Science] [Business] [Show ID: 31018]

Thirty-two years after the release of Return of the Jedi, Star Wars: The Force Awakens brings together the saga’s original characters with a new generation of heroes and villains. Oscar-nominated editor Maryann Brandon talks about working with J.J. Abrams and the making of the latest Star Wars film. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 31015]

Released in the summer of 1975, "Jaws" was seen by over 67 million Americans, essentially creating the “summer blockbuster.” Screenwriter Carl Gottlieb talks about that experience and his other screenplays. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 30890]

With a recently restored version of this 1975 film directed by Haile Gerimaa led to this conversation with Jan-Christopher Horak, Director of the UCLA Film and Television Archive and co-editor of the recent collection documenting the archive’s restoration of LA Rebellion films. He is joined by UCSB Department of Film and Media Studies Professors Anna Everett and Ross Melnick. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 30806]

Don Hertzfeldt is a two time Oscar-nominated American independent filmmaker whose animated films include It's Such a Beautiful Day, The Meaning of Life, Billy's Balloon, and Rejected. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 30805]

The film Still Alice explores early-onset Alzheimer's disease. This panel at UCSB discusses the film and the troubling issues it explores. Donna Beal - Alzheimer’s Association, Patricia Cline Cohen - Department of History at UCSB, Kenneth Kosik - Neuroscience Research Institute at UCSB. Moderator - Laury Oaks - Feminist Studies at UCSB. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Health and Medicine] [Humanities] [Show ID: 30803]

Screenwriter Michael Miner sits down with UCSB Department of Film & Media Studies professor Joshua Moss to discuss Robocop’s B-Movie influences, the role of political humor in science fiction, and the economic model of Orion Pictures and other genre picture studios in the 1980s. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 30631]

UCSB Script to Screen was invited to the 2016 Directors Guild Awards, Writers Guild Awards and the Oscar Wilde Awards to interview amazing talent including many Oscar nominees and winners, and as a special bonus, the cast and crew from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 30802]

Academy Award nominated screenwriter Josh Singer talks about Spotlight, the film about reporters delving into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 30591]

Professors Bhaskar Sarkar and Janet Walker of the UCSB Department of Film and Media Studies, discuss "The Look of Silence," a groundbreaking documentary on trauma by Joshua Oppenheimer. The film was nominated for a 2016 Academy Award. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 30457]

Director Jeff Malmberg talks with UC Santa Barbara students about his award-winning feature documentary Marwencol, which is about the fantasy world of Mark Hogancam created after a violent attack left him unable to read, walk, eat, write, or recall anything of his adult life. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Health and Medicine] [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 30456]

Jacqueline Rose, University of London, examines the film Niagara, its star Marilyn Monroe, Hollywood, and what Rose terms the "loving cruelty of cinema in relation to women." Rose is welcomed to UCSB by Professor of Film and Media Studies Constance Penley. Niagara is a unique specimen of baroque Technicolor film noir, starring Marilyn Monroe and Joseph Cotten. The film tells the story of a pair of couples at Niagara Falls -- one honeymooning, the other disintegrating -- and explores desire, insanity, and the drive toward fatal attraction. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 30402]

Go behind the scenes with cameraman/editor, Mark Romanov, who specializes in hard-to-get shots which is apparent in his work on Rick Rosenthal's documentary, The Dark Side of the Ocean. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 30029]