August 2022
TV Snapshots: An Archive of Everyday Life (Virtual Event)
Made possible by the John H. Mitchell Television Programming Endowment Introduction by Maya M. Smukler (MA ’08, Ph.D. ’14), Archive Research and Study Center In this illustrated talk, Professor Lynn Spigel (MA ’84, Ph.D. ’88) will discuss her new book, TV Snapshots (Duke University Press), which examines snapshots of people posing in front of their television sets in the 1950s through the early 1970s. Like today’s selfies, TV snapshots were a popular photographic practice through which people visualized their lives…
Find out more »Larry Clark
Already actively engaged with painting and photography when he enrolled in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, writer-director Larry Clark brought his established artistic practice to bear on his work as a filmmaker. "I think of my paintings and photos as a part of my creative process that informed my film work," Clark has said. "Film is more than celluloid or digital material. Film encompasses all of the arts." With this expansive vision of cinema and its possibilities,…
Find out more »Larry Clark
Already actively engaged with painting and photography when he enrolled in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, writer-director Larry Clark brought his established artistic practice to bear on his work as a filmmaker. "I think of my paintings and photos as a part of my creative process that informed my film work," Clark has said. "Film is more than celluloid or digital material. Film encompasses all of the arts." With this expansive vision of cinema and its possibilities,…
Find out more »Larry Clark
Already actively engaged with painting and photography when he enrolled in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, writer-director Larry Clark brought his established artistic practice to bear on his work as a filmmaker. "I think of my paintings and photos as a part of my creative process that informed my film work," Clark has said. "Film is more than celluloid or digital material. Film encompasses all of the arts." With this expansive vision of cinema and its possibilities,…
Find out more »September 2022
Nitrate Treasures: Daughter of Shanghai
Introduction by Sean Metzger, Associate Dean, Faculty and Students, and Professor, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Daughter of Shanghai, U.S., 1937 Created as a star vehicle for Anna May Wong, the Los Angeles-born daughter of a Chinese immigrant family and the first Asian American female star in Hollywood, Paramount teamed her up with sympathetic French émigré director Robert Florey and high school friend/on-screen love interest Philip Ahn as the first Asian G-man depicted on screen. Together, they elevate…
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