# film studies (video feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover film studies. Page: Feed: --- ## [Panic!: Swoon](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40927) _2025-10-18 · Film and Television (Video)_ Artist and filmmaker Tom Kalin joins moderator Bhaskar Sarkar (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) for a discussion of his 1992 film Swoon. Kalin discusses the historical background of the film (the famous 1924 Leopold and Loeb murder case), how he reimagined the case through the lens of queer desire, and how he conducted archival research into the central figures of the murder. Kalin also discusses how… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/40927.mp4) ## [CWC Docs: Facing the Falls](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40926) _2025-10-11 · Film and Television (Video)_ Film producer Liz Yale Marsh and mustang wrangler West Taylor join moderator and co-producer Wendy Eley Jackson to discuss their work on the documentary Facing the Falls, which follows disability rights advocate Cara Elizabeth Yar Khan and her twelve-day expedition through the Grand Canyon. They explore how Yar Khan’s muscle disease provided a unique challenge to navigating the Grand Canyon, as… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/40926.mp4) ## [CWC Global: Captain Volkonogov Escaped](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40925) _2025-10-04 · Film and Television (Video)_ Filmmakers Natasha Merkulova and Alexey Chupov join moderator Sasha Razor (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) to discuss their film Captain Volkonogov Escaped. Merkulova and Chupov share how they work as a film making team, how they researched the period of Stalinist purges in the 1930s, and how they sought to make the period of the film feel contemporary. They go on to discuss their experience working… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/40925.mp4) ## [CWC Global: Japanese Paper Films](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40924) _2025-09-27 · Film and Television (Video)_ Eric Faden (Bucknell University) discusses his work on the Japanese Paper Film Project, a project that has been preserving paper films made in Japan in the 1930s. Koto player Yoko Reikano Kimura and cellist Hikaru Tamaki (Duo Yumeno) joins Faden and moderator Alex Lilburn (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) to talk about how the preservation work was carried out and their experiences presenting the… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/40924.mp4) ## [CWC Global: From Ground Zero](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40923) _2025-09-20 · Film and Television (Video)_ Mona Damluji (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) and Elisabeth Weber (German and Slavic Studies, UCSB) join moderator Bishnupriya Ghosh (English and Global Studies, UCSB) to discuss the film project From Ground Zero, an anthology of films made by Palestinian filmmakers since the beginning of the war in Gaza. They discuss how the films present a unique vision of Gaza, showing a vibrant society dealing… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/40923.mp4) ## [Panic!: The Sound of Fury](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40919) _2025-09-13 · Film and Television (Video)_ Film historian Rebecca Prime joins moderator Ross Melnick (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) for a discussion of the classic Hollywood film The Sound of Fury. Prime outlines the film’s production history and how its political and social commentary was shaped by its director, Cy Endfield, who would go on to be blacklisted due to his association with the Communist Party. They further discuss Endfield’s… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/40919.mp4) ## [CWC Docs: American Homeboy](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40921) _2025-09-06 · Film and Television (Video)_ Documentary subject and Chicano activist Jerry Ramirez joins moderator Clint Terrell (English, UCSB) for a discussion of the documentary film American Homeboy. They discuss Ramirez’s involvement with the film, his relationship to his Chicano identity, and how his experience being incarcerated fueled his activism, particularly in relation to Chicano issues. Ramirez and Terrrell reflect on how the… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/40921.mp4) ## [Panic!: Hedwig and the Angry Inch](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40922) _2025-08-23 · Film and Television (Video)_ Over 20 years since its release, Hedwig and the Angry Inch remains as relevant as ever to the politics of the day. A child of division, Hedwig refuses to be caught between categories, instead evading gender description and embracing herself as lovingly as one can. Writer/director/actor John Cameron Mitchell joins moderator Patrice Petro, Dick Wolf Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center, to discuss a… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/40922.mp4) ## [Archives of Anonymous Labor: From Farce to Liberation](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40920) _2025-08-16 · Film and Television (Video)_ Film curators Michelle Baroody and Maggie Hennefeld join moderator Patrice Petro for a discussion of their program “Archives of Anonymous Labor: From Farce to Liberation.” The program juxtaposes five films that about anonymity and labor, from silent films that show the invisible labor of housemaids and film editors to films that highlight the erased labor of decolonial struggle. This program is… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/40920.mp4) ## [Unlimited Mobile Internet, One V-SIM (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/0t05OLntvV1a) _2025-08-16 · **Sponsored**_ Automatically switches across T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon; no throttling, no contract. ## [Panic!: CBS and the 1950s Blacklist](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40918) _2025-08-09 · Film and Television (Video)_ Carol Stabile (Clark Honors College, University of Oregon) joins moderator Patrice Petro for a discussion of “CBS and the 1950s Blacklist,” a program that included an episode of the television sitcom The Goldbergs and William N. Robson’s radio broadcast titled “Open Letter on Race Hatred.” They discuss the history of anti-communist activism in the U.S. and how CBS capitulated to the FBI and its… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/40918.mp4)