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Storytelling for the Screen:

The Artful Dodger

with James McNamara

(series creator)

Tuesday, March 10 / 7:00 PM

Pollock Theater, UCSB

The Artful Dodger returns in season 2, and Jack is in deep trouble. He’s got a date with the noose, he’s being hunted by Inspector Boxer, Port Victory’s new lawman, and if he sees the woman he loves, Lady Belle, he’ll be hung. With Boxer competing with Jack for Belle’s affection, the crafty Fagin drags him into their most dangerous heist yet, and a killer is on the loose. Get ready for an explosive season of new characters and locations with more love, loss, invention, and deception than ever. The Dodger is in.

Following our screening of The Artful Dodger season 2, episode 1 “Hangman,” series creator James McNamara (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) will join moderator Ross Melnick (interim Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center) for a discussion of the series and its creation.

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James McNamara (series creator)

James McNamara is the creator, head writer, and executive producer of the critically-acclaimed international Disney+ and Hulu series The Artful Dodger. Season 1 was nominated for seven Australian Academy Awards (AACTAs) and McNamara was nominated for an Australian Writers’ Guild Award for the pilot episode. He received conservator training in writing, directing, and classical performance at the National Institute of Dramatic Art and the Bell Shakespeare Company; screenwriting training at the Australian Film Television and Radio School; and a PhD in English Literature from the University of Oxford.

Moderator Ross Melnick

(Film and Media Studies, UCSB)

Ross Melnick is Professor of Film and Media Studies at UCSB and Interim Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center. He was named an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Film Scholar and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow for his book Hollywood’s Embassies: How Movie Theaters Projected American Power Around the World. He is the author of American Showman: Samuel ‘Roxy’ Rothafel and the Birth of the Entertainment Industry, co-editor of Rediscovering U.S. Newsfilm: Cinema, Television, and the Archive, and co-author of Cinema Treasures.