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Visual Studies Lectures
University of California, Irvine
Current Lectures/Events
DateTitle
08/21/08Summer Film Series 'Surveillance' screening of: 1984
08/28/08Summer Film Series 'Surveillance' screening of: Brazil
09/24/08Department of Film & Media Studies Welcome Week Orientation

Past Lectures/Events
DateTitle
08/14/08Summer Film Series 'Surveillance' screening of: The Truman Show
08/07/08Summer Film Series 'Surveillance' screening of: The Lives of Others
07/24/08Summer Film Series 'Elusive LA' screening of: The Big Lebowski
07/17/08Summer Film Series 'Elusive LA' screening of: Heat
07/10/08Summer Film Series 'Elusive LA' screening of: Boyz N'The Hood
07/03/08Summer Film Series 'Elusive LA' screening of: Chinatown
06/04/08End of the Year Celebration
05/31/0816th Annual UCI Screenwriting Festival, Day 2
05/30/0816th Annual UCI Screenwriting Festival, Day 1
05/30/08Vikki's Farewell Celebration (please note change of time and venue)
05/29/08FVC Screening: The Graduate
05/23/08FVC Screening: Easy Rider
05/22/08FVC Screening: Badlands
05/16/08FVC Screening: Breathless
05/15/08FVC Screening: Band of Outsiders
05/08/08FVC Screening: Spider-man 2, with special guest Stan Lee
05/01/08FVC Screening: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
04/25/08FVC Screening: Medium Cool
04/23/08"Languages on the Screen: Poliglossia and Monoglossia" illustrated lecture by Visiting Fulbright Scholar Jose Gatti (University of Sao Carlos, Brazil)
04/16/08 - 04/26/08Latin American Film Festival
04/10/08FVC Screening: Notorious
03/26/08 - 04/16/08The 2008 Franco Tonelli Memorial Prize in Film and Media Studies
02/29/08 - 03/01/08"The Street" Graduate Conference sponsored by the UC Irvine Visual Studies Graduate Student Association
02/28/08FVC Screening: The Seven Samurai
02/21/08FVC Screening: La Strada
02/14/08FVC Screening: Jules and Jim
02/07/08FVC Screening: Keith
01/31/08FVC Screening: Stories of Migration: Transnational Documentary
01/24/08FVC Screening: Stories of Migration: Transnational Documentary
01/17/08FVC Screening: Once
01/09/08Gendering the Anatomical Body in the Renaissance
01/08/08The Painter’s Presence: Ren Bonian (1840-1895) and Portraits of the Shanghai Art World
12/24/07 - 01/01/08Administrative Recess - Film & Media Studies office closed from 12/24/07 - 1/1/08
12/10/07 - 12/14/07FINALS WEEK
09/25/0714th Annual Department of Film and Media Studies Undergraduate Orientation
07/26/07Free Summer Film Series - The 400 Blows
07/19/07Free Summer Film Series - I'm Not Scared
07/12/07Free Summer Film Series - Crooklyn
07/05/07Free Summer Film Series - Quinceañera
04/20/07Mapping the Field: Topics in Visual Studies
03/27/07Manga / Anime Open House
03/08/07Film and Video Center Presents: The Olive Harvest (Hanna Elias, 2003). Q&A screening with director to follow.
03/01/07Film and Video Center Presents: Lunacy (Jan Svankmajer. 2006)
02/22/07Film and Video Center Film Series: DISAFFECTED YOUTH: A TRIAD OF TEEN ANGST: The Chumscrubber (Arie Posen, 2006). Q&A session with director to follow screening
02/17/07Film and Video Center Film Series: DISAFFECTED YOUTH: A TRIAD OF TEEN ANGST: Beautiful Thing (Hettie MacDonald, 1996)
02/15/07Film and Video Center Film Series: DISAFFECTED YOUTH: A TRIAD OF TEEN ANGST: That Was Then… This is Now (Christopher Cain, 1985)
02/08/07Film and Video Center Presents: Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958) Newly restored 35mm print!
02/07/07"Black Valentino" - a public talk by Professor Mark Lynn Anderson [U of Pittsburgh]
02/05/07"The Cold War and the Culture Wars: Neoliberal Cultural Policy and the Internationalization of Gay and Lesbian Film Festivals" - a public talk by Ragan Rhyne, Ph.D
02/02/07"Baby Burlesks and Kiddie Kabarets: Children's Performances of Adulthood", a public talk by Kristen Hatch, Lecturer, UCI Department of Film and Media Studies
02/01/07Film and Video Center Presents: A Film Program, a Film entitled Program (Florian Pumhosl, 2006) and Limite (Mario Peixoto, 1930) Brazilian Avant-Garde Films - Double Feature
01/31/07"The Eros of Access: Analog Video Aesthetics." a public talk by Lucas Hilderbrand, Post-Doctoral Fellow - Division of Critical Studies, School of Cinematic Arts, USC
01/25/07Film and Video Center Presents: The World (Jia Zhangke, 2004)
01/24/07Film and Media Studies presents: a public a talk by Professor Catherine Benamou
01/18/07Film and Video Center Presents: Chelsea Girls (Andy Warhol, 1966)
01/12/07"Social Class and the Ideology of the Documentary: A Reading of Gianni Amelio's 'Lamerica'": a public lecture by Professor Ann Kibbey, U of Colorado
01/11/07Film and Video Center Presents: The U.S. vs. John Lennon (David Leaf and John Scheinfeld, 2006)
11/30/06CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AMERICAN CINEMA SERIES: The President’s Last Bang
11/16/06LOS ANGELES/EXPERIMENTAL FILM SERIES: Los Angeles Avant-Garde II
11/09/06CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AMERICAN CINEMA SERIES: Undoing
11/02/06LOS ANGELES/EXPERIMENTAL FILM SERIES: The Films of Elisabeth Subrin
10/26/06LOS ANGELES/EXPERIMENTAL FILM SERIES: Los Angeles Avant-Garde I
10/24/06(Un)Lovely Louisiana: Prescient History in the Recent Work of Carrie Mae Weems
10/19/06FILM AND VIDEO CENTER PRESENTS: Man Push Cart
10/18/06LOS ANGELES/EXPERIMENTAL FILM SERIES:The Look of Law
10/12/06CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AMERICAN CINEMA SERIES: The Motel
10/05/06LOS ANGELES/EXPERIMENTAL FILM SERIES: The Bloody Child
09/21/0613th Annual Orientation and Reception for New and Continuing Students - Department of Film and Media Studies
08/31/06Summer FIlm Series: THE ENDLESS SUMMER
08/24/06Summer Film Series: PLAYTIME
08/17/06Summer Film Series: REPO MAN
08/10/06Summer Film Series: LA DOLCE VITA
07/27/06Summer Film Series: GOODBYE LENIN
07/20/06Summer Film Series: MAN WITHOUT A PAST
07/13/06Summer Film Series: KNIFE IN THE WATER
07/06/06Summer Film Series: JUNEBUG
06/01/06Film & Video Center Screening: Video Remains
05/25/06Fabian Marquez Screenwriting Discussion (CANCELLED)
03/13/06A Lecture by Bridget R. Cooks: "What Do We See When We Look?: Images of African Americans in Lynching Photography"
03/10/06 - 03/11/06Pacific Modernities: Museum Culture and Civic Engagement
03/09/06A Lecture by Leonard Folgarait: "Photography in the Photographs of Manuel Alvarez Bravo"
03/06/06A Lecture by Derek Conrad Murray: "The Limits of Solidarity: African-American Art History in a Transnational Era"
02/28/06"Digital Formations and the Networked Images of the Body"
02/24/06Testimony in the Umbra of Trauma: Film and Video Portraits of Survival
02/23/06Globalized Domestic Work and Female Representation in Contemporary Women's Films in the Philippines
02/17/06 - 02/18/06Conference - New Media, Technology, and the Humanities
01/27/06Public Lecture by PROFESSOR BRITTA SJOGREN: "From Screams to Silence: Subjectivity in the 'Between'"
01/26/06Film and Video Center Screening: The Children’s Hour
01/26/06A lecture by Amira Jarmakani: "Veiled Intentions: Investigating the 'Imperial Right of the Camera' to Represent Arab Womanhood"
01/19/06A Photography Double Feature "Other People's Pictures" and "How Little We Know of our Neighbors"
01/13/06Lana Lin and the Aesthetics of Degeneration: Video as Cultural Analog"
12/02/05A conversation between Julius Shulman and Wim De Wit: Architecture's Fragile History photography & preservation
10/31/05A lecture by Dr. Kenneth A. Breisch: "Within the Imperative for Development...The Case for Preservation v Demolition"
10/17/05A Lecture by Norman Bryson: “Limited Freedoms: Shanghai Since 1990”
09/22/05The Annual Department of Film and Media Studies Undergraduate Orientation
06/06/05Lectures by Alexander Nemerov & Bryan Jay Wolf, Americanist Spring Symposium: Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture
05/31/05Digital Utopia after Sade
05/11/05I'm a Girl Watcher: Consumer Culture and the Development of the Sexploitation Film
04/12/05A lecture by Alex Potts: "Crisis and Hiatus in Post-War Artistic Culture"
03/14/05Media Praxis: The Theory and Practice of Feminist Media/History Making
03/02/05A public lecture by Anna MCCarthy
02/24/05McG: Welcome Back To UC Irvine
02/09/05An Artist's Journey to The Gender Frontier: A Lifetime of Asking Questions
01/27/05"The Spectacle of Crime, as Seen on C.S.I." - A public lecture by Martha Gever
11/01/04A lecture by Ingrid D. Rowland "The Etruscan Forgeries of Curzio Inghirami (1614-1655)"
09/30/04FVC Screening: "Los Angeles Plays Itself"
09/23/0411th Annual F&MS Orientation & Reception for New and Continuing Students
02/20/04"Virtual Forgetting: Media Archeology and Cultural Memory"
02/18/04"New Media in the Optic of Cinema: Towards a Tropology of Interface"
02/13/04" Electric Hearts and Electronic Negroes: Futurisms' Man-Machine Dynamic"
02/11/04"Ocular Prosthetics and the Embodiment of Digital Visuality"
02/06/04"From Paper Prints to Fast Film: Techno-Syncretism and Digital Materiality"
02/04/04Omniscient Monet at the Orangerie
01/30/04Anxious Omniscience: Surveillance as Narrative Form
01/23/04Dead Woman Glowing: Karla Faye Tucker and the Aesthetics of Death Row Photography.
01/21/04Moral Spectatorship: The Child Subject in Post-WWII Psychoanalysis
09/25/03Department of Film and Media Studies Undergraduate Orientation
03/18/03Virtual Reality and Its Rituals of Transmission
11/01/02A lecture by Anthony Lee: "Orientals and Orientalists on the Late 19th-Century American Scene"
11/01/02Orientals and Orientalists on the late 19th-Century American Scene
05/01/02A lecture by Dr. Maria Fernandez: "Post Colonial Projections"