Curtis Marez
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Dystopian Science Fiction and the Death of Public Education: The Running Man (1987)
04:06Posted: Sep 13, 2012 by cmarez with 0 commentsA former policeman and escaped convict (Schwarzenegger) is released from his high-tech chains and learns that in the future public education has been replaced by state run TV. Read more…
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Dystopian SF and Public Institutions: The Running Man
02:47Posted: Sep 13, 2012 by cmarez with 0 commentsA policeman is imprisoned after refusing to fire on food rioters in California's San Joaquin Valley. Read more…
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Professor Hesse Defends his “Research”: Junior
01:01Posted: Sep 13, 2012 by cmarez with 0 commentsDr. Hesse wrestles with a grasping dean in ways that reflect differences over the meaning and value of university research. Read more…
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Public Universities Make Dreams of the Future Concrete: Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
02:21Posted: Sep 13, 2012 by cmarez with 0 commentsThe opening credits for the SF film Conquest of the Planet of the Apes was filmed at UC Irvine and represents a revealing interpretation of dreams for public education embedded in the school's architecture. Read more…
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Representing Professors: Junior
00:45Posted: Sep 13, 2012 by cmarez with 0 commentsAfter losing their federal research grant, two university scientists discuss their future in ways that project an image of professors as coldly rational and machine like. Read more…
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A Dream about Public Education: Junior
02:32Posted: Sep 13, 2012 by cmarez with 0 commentsThe opening credits for Junior, filmed at UC Berkeley and reflecting on the significance of public education. Read more…
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Cameras as means of policing farm workers
04:22Posted: Aug 31, 2012 by cmarez with 0 commentsCameras were important means of policing farm workers and hence of farm worker resistance. Read more…
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Farm Workers and Segregated Movie Theaters
09:58Posted: Aug 31, 2012 by cmarez with 0 commentsFarm Workers and Segregated Movie Theaters Read more…
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A migrant worker blows up a meth lab
02:02Posted: Aug 31, 2012 by cmarez with 0 commentsA migrant worker uses meth making technology to blow up a meth lab where he has been forced to work. Read more…
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A migrant worker attempts to escape forced labor in a meth-making camp.
06:06Posted: Aug 31, 2012 by cmarez with 0 commentsA migrant worker attempts to escape forced labor in a meth-making camp. Read more…
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Curt in American Graffiti hangs out with Latino hoods
03:03Posted: Aug 31, 2012 by cmarez with 0 commentsCurt in American Graffiti hangs out with a group of Latino hoods. Read more…
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Tom Joad's final speech.
03:00Posted: Aug 31, 2012 by cmarez with 0 commentsTom Joad's final speech. Read more…
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The Joads arrive in an oppressive labor camp.
04:02Posted: Aug 31, 2012 by cmarez with 0 commentsThe Joads arrive in an oppressive labor camp Read more…
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The Joads arrive in an oppressive labor camp.
04:02Posted: Aug 31, 2012 by cmarez with 0 commentsThe Joads arrive at an oppressive labor camp Read more…
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The Joads arrive in California's San Joaquin Valley
02:06Posted: Aug 31, 2012 by cmarez with 0 commentsThe Joads arrive in the San Joaquin Valley Read more…
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Luke destroys the Deathstar
00:51Posted: Aug 31, 2012 by cmarez with 0 commentsLuke destroys the Death Star. Read more…
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Cesar Dances
00:22Posted: Aug 31, 2012 by cmarez with 0 commentsCesar Dances Read more…
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Luke's identity as a farm boy is established
01:43Posted: Aug 31, 2012 by cmarez with 0 commentsLuke's identity as a farm boy is established Read more…
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Jar Jar Binks Introduced
02:05Posted: Aug 31, 2012 by cmarez with 0 commentsThe CGI character Jar Jar Binks is introduced. Read more…
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Chicano Drone Pilot Blows up neoliberal "Death Star"
03:55Posted: Aug 31, 2012 by cmarez with 0 commentsA Chicano drone pilot attacks the privatization of water by blowing up a dam. Read more…
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La Bamba and the Farm Worker Origins of Rock and Roll
04:26Posted: Aug 31, 2012 by cmarez with 0 commentsThe opening scenes of La Bamba foreground the farm worker origins of Rock and Roll. Read more…
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Union Meeting from Salt of the Earth
07:21Posted: Aug 31, 2012 by cmarez with 0 commentsUnion Meeting scene from Salt of the Earth that represents the conflicted, intersectional space of unions and audiences. Read more…
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MacGyver Goes Undercover as a Farm Worker
02:24Posted: Aug 31, 2012 by cmarez with 0 commentsPerforming a kind of speculative farm worker utopia, MacGyver goes under cover in the grape fields. Read more…
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MacGyver Joins the Farm Worker Struggle against Pesticides
02:44Posted: Aug 31, 2012 by cmarez with 0 commentsThis scene from an espisode of MacGyver reflects the contemporary struggle of the United Farm Workers against pesticides. Read more…
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Mexican Audiences Morph into Activists: Break of Dawn
02:50Posted: Aug 31, 2012 by cmarez with 0 commentsThis scene from Break of Dawn represents nativist violence and Mexican radio activism in the era of repatriation. Read more…
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Imagining Mexican audiences in Break of Dawn
02:42Posted: Aug 31, 2012 by cmarez with 0 commentsUsing "new media" to imagine and produce working class Mexican audiences. Read more…
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Cesar Chavez's Short Handled Hoe
00:36Posted: Aug 31, 2012 by cmarez with 0 commentsQuick time film of Cesar Chavez's short handled hoe. Read more…
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Imagining UC Students: The Blot (1921)
02:44Posted: Aug 31, 2012 by cmarez with 0 commentsA silent film depiction of University of California student demographics. Read more…
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Students and a Professor Discuss How to Use Education
02:31Posted: Aug 31, 2012 by cmarez with 0 commentsTwo students and a professor have a philosophical and practical discussion of the value of college education. Read more…
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Writing a College Paper: Higher Learning
02:55Posted: Aug 31, 2012 by cmarez with 0 commentsStudents discuss their papers with each other and a professor. Read more…
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Representing Students: Junior
01:20Posted: Aug 31, 2012 by cmarez with 0 commentsProf. Hesse discusses the early symptoms of his pregnancy to a colleague as two graduate student researchers overhear. Read more…
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Feminist Detection at UCSD: Veronica Mars
03:04Posted: Aug 31, 2012 by cmarez with 0 commentsVeronica Mars brings her detective skills to bear on campus crimes. Read more…
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A College Student Presents a Theory of Power: Higher Learning
01:01Posted: Aug 31, 2012 by cmarez with 0 commentsA student presents a theory of power at a dorm party. Read more…
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The Racialization of University Space: Higher Learning
01:09Posted: Aug 31, 2012 by cmarez with 0 commentsThe opening scene of Higher Learning presents a revealing view of the racialization of university space. Read more…
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Anti-Government Freedom Fighters: The Running Man
01:20Posted: Aug 31, 2012 by cmarez with 0 commentsA former policeman and escaped convict becomes the leader of a popular rebellion against state run TV. Read more…
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Majoring in Criminology
04:01Posted: Aug 31, 2012 by cmarez with 0 commentsOpening of Veronica Mars episode where the title character attends criminology class on her "Spanish-style" college campus. Read more…
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UFW Computer Animation
09:03Posted: Aug 03, 2011 by cmarez with 0 commentsUFW Computer Animation Read more…
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Sharecropping in Space
Posted: Dec 02, 2012 by cmarez with 0 commentsCover for 1st edition of Robert Heinlein's Farmer in the Sky depicting agricultural stoop labor on Ganymede Read more…
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The Steam Man
Posted: Oct 28, 2012 by cmarez with 0 commentsCover of one of the earliest U.S. science fiction novels. Read more…
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The Future World of Agriculture (1984)
Posted: Dec 04, 2012 by cmarez with 0 commentsAn artist's rendering of space colony farming. Read more…
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