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This exhibit examines the push for coeducation and coed dormitories on college campuses in mid-century America. The sources displayed engage with popular depictions of coed living, student, alumni, and administrative opinion on the matter, as well as the lasting legacies of the coed movement. This exhibit aims to convey an understanding of the general concerns that accompanied switches to coed classes and dorms, from the value of homosociality to women’s education and students’ sexual promiscuity. It also prompts viewers, through engaging with the historical sources, to consider how modern attitudes have changed from those expressed during the height of the coed movement, or whether many of the same concerns still exist today.

Welcome to Black Female Filmmakers of the L.A. Rebellion: an interactive exhibit that explores Black female cinematic auteurship during the revolutionary L.A. Rebellion at UCLA. 

The L.A. Rebellion is a film movement that spanned across the 1960s to the 1980s in which Black film students at UCLA began formulating a Black filmic aesthetic that opposed the conventions of classical Hollywood cinema. The movement is marked by its highly radical nature, drawing from Third Cinema in its overt politicization whilst also experimenting with forms of expressing Black life. This exhibit focuses on the key Black female filmmakers involved in the L.A. Rebellion including Julie Dash, Jacqueline Frazier, Melvonna Bellenger, Alile Sharon Larkin, and Barbara McCullough—particularly interpreting and analyzing one short film from their respective bodies of work and situating them as entries into a versatile, radical tradition of Black filmic archival practice.