Film and Digital Media at UCSC

02/25/2023

👏🎉HUGE CONGRATS!
✨Kiki Loveday✨, FDM PhD Graduation, Wins Top Film Honor!
Recent PhD graduate in Film and Digital Media, Kiki Loveday, has won the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Dissertation Award for her brilliant thesis, "Sapphic Cinemania! Female Authorship, Q***r Desires and the Birth of Cinema.” This is the top honor in the field and richly-deserved.

05/29/2020

Professor Jennifer Maytorena Taylor's new film is out! Listen to an interview broadcast on the CBC program AS IT HAPPENS:

A plan to resettle 25 refugee families in Rutland, Vt., pit residents against each other in 2016. The documentary For The Love of Rutland follows that controversy through the lens of Stacie Griffin, a local with a history of opioid addiction, as she grapples with the issue that's tearing her town ap...

10/05/2019

Professor Taylor's expertise will enrich those lucky students who enroll in her Sundance Co//ab course!

Where creators come together to learn, share, and connect.

08/06/2019

Impossible to imagine this happening without the work of Shelley Stamp!

Lois made an appearance in the The New York Times crossword over the weekend.

07/31/2019

Why yes, we did know! Thank you McHenry Library for all you do to support media study!

Did you know that UCSC has a Media Desk at McHenry Library that supports the study and teaching of film and digital media, acting, languages, music, and other disciplines? We maintain media reserves including videotapes, laserdiscs, DVDs, and much more.

06/13/2019

Congratulations to Professor Stamp!

Congratulations to Shelley Stamp, professor, Film and Digital Media Department for receiving the 2019 Excellence in Teaching Awards! The awards were given out by Chancellor George Blumenthal on June 7 during a luncheon at University Center. Blumenthal noted that the seven recipients this year were selected from 430 nominations.

“Your caring, your commitment to teaching, your compassion for students is recognized and appreciated,” Blumenthal said.

Shelley Stamp’s teaching encompasses movie culture, critical analysis and public engagement.

These teaching strategies make her courses dynamic, whether it be a large lecture course or a small senior seminar.

Colleagues speak of the consistently glowing reviews of her classes from all of her students—undergrads or Ph.Ds. Student nominators called Stamp an amazing lecturer who makes difficult topics easy to understand as well as interesting.

04/03/2019

Consider enhancing your Film + Digital Media major with a congressional internship!

Information on the internship opportunities available in our offices.

03/15/2019

The opening reception for "Reading Room: After Archives" a collective exhibition highlighting the multimedia artworks prompted by student research in the UCSC Special Collections & Archives and the Prelinger Library in San Francisco is today from 3-5 pm.

Check out the opening reception, Today 3-5pm, "Reading Room: After Archives" a collective exhibition highlighting the multimedia artworks prompted by student research in the UCSC Special Collections & Archives and the Prelinger Library in San Francisco. collections

12/03/2018

This month marks the release of the new six-DVD set “Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers” presented by Kino Lorber and Library of Congress. Author and film historian Shelley Stamp curated this ambitious compilation of works by women directors — some well-known; many unknown — with a focus on Am...