film.ucsc.edu/phd_program/home
The University of California, Santa Cruz welcomes applications for the 2012 Admissions Cycle for the Film & Digital Media PhD.
The program engages students through critical practice and focuses on a diverse range of cultural production; including cinema, television, video art, and Internet-based media. Program participants investigate the historical, aesthetic, political, ideological, and technological aspects of these media forms across a range of international contexts. Students are prepared for intellectually informed creative practice as well as theoretical and critical production in a range of environments, not limited to traditional academic contexts.
The flexibility of the program allows students to work closely with their advisor and the director of graduate studies to craft a personalized course of study that advances their intellectual and professional goals.
For information visit our website: film.ucsc.edu/phd_program/home
Or contact Robert Valiente-Neighbours, Graduate Program Coordinator, at: [email protected] (831) 459-3445
Online applications open: October 1, 2011 through December 15, 2011
Fall Visit Day: Monday November 14, 2011 (contact [email protected] for information)
Core Faculty:
Lawrence Andrews, Department Chair
Education: B.F.A., San Francisco Art Institute
Research Interests: Film and video production, installation and media art
Sharon Daniel
Education: M.F.A., University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Research Interests: Participatory culture, technology and social inclusion, public art
Irene Gustafson
Education: M.F.A., Northwestern University
Research Interests: Production across the boundaries between “theory” and “practice”; non-fiction, gender and queer studies, production design
Eli Hollander
Education: M.F.A., University of California, Los Angeles
Research Interests: Directing, editing, cinematography, videography, digital image generation and screenwriting
Jennifer Horne
Education: Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Research Interests: History of film criticism, popular and academic; history of film culture (film societies and cinematheques); relationship of film to other technologies of recording; women and cinema; experimental film and video; theories of citizenship and globalization; cinema of the Asia-Pacific region, especially before 1945
Jonathan Kahana
Education: Ph.D., Rutgers University
Research Interests: Documentary film and media; film and politics; essay film; American film history; American popular and state modernism; cultural and social theory; media publics; audio culture and sound art; disciplines of listening
L.S. Kim
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Research Interests: Television history and theory, racial discourse, feminist criticism, Asian American media production, industrial practices and social change in mainstream Hollywood and alternative media
John Leaños
Education: M.F.A. San Francisco State University
Research Interests: Social Documentation, Documentary Animation, Chicana/o Studies and Popular Culture, Digital Media Theory and Practice, Community Art and Social Practice
Peter Limbrick
Education: Ph.D., La Trobe University, Australia
Research Interests: Postcolonial and transnational cinemas, race, gender, sexuality, queer theory
Chip Lord
Education: M.Arch., Tulane University
Research Interests: Film and video directing and editing, video theory and history, video installation, screenwriting, documentary production
Irene Lusztig
Education: M.F.A., Bard College
Research Interests: Film and video production, experimental documentary, ethnographic film, autobiographical film, editing
Margaret Morse
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests: Digital/electronic media theory and criticism, media art, media history, technology and culture, film history and theory, German cinema, documentary, science fiction
B. Ruby Rich
Research Interests: Documentary film and video, post-9/11 culture, new queer cinema, feminist film history, Latin American and Latino/a cinema, U.S. independent film and video, essay film, politics of film festival proliferation, marketing of foreign films in the U.S.
Warren Sack
Education: Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Online public space and public discussion, social computing, software studies, software design, software art, media theory
Shelley Stamp
Education: Ph.D., New York University
Research Interests: Silent cinema, female filmmakers, film censorship, histories of moviegoing, early Hollywood
Renee Tajima-Peña
Research Interests: Documentary film and video focusing on Asian American and immigrant communities, media and social change
Gustavo Vazquez
Education: M.A., San Francisco State University
Research Interests: Film and video production; directing drama, documentary and experimental; cross-cultural experiences in film; film festival curation
Yiman Wang
Education: Ph.D., Duke University
Research Interests: Transnational/trans-regional Chinese cinemas, Intra-Asian and cross-Pacific film remakes, Pan-East Asian celebrity culture, East Asian cultural studies, Asian American cinema