whole class was on the films, just skim the readings before midterm/final. lectures are just her reading from her paper and can be hard to take notes on but the tests are easy if you know anything about the historical context/film content. one research paper thats very easy. honestly a really fun class to watch movies and study 60s-80s hollywood

Prof. Felando is passionate about teaching she doesn't know how to. Can't communicate about what she wants on papers and exams. Grades hard w/ no feedback. Can't reach out of class. The whole lecture she will just read from a paper. Worst teacher I've ever had. Disappointing considering the class itself had the potential to be good. Don't take!

Took 101A and 155SW. Passionate about the things she teaches. Loves to assign a million readings and essays. Readings can be difficult to understand, and the essays for 101A were very tough. Got a B- in 101A. Needed 155SW to graduate but she refused to give me a grade for the entire course because I had a missing assignment and now will fail.

Frustratingly awful. Her lecture material isn't challenging, but the poor course structure, abhorrent lack of clarity of what she desires from her students on exams/papers, & lack of understanding of how to properly introduce films along with structure a reasonable amount of time for exams make for the worst professor (& grades) I've had at UCSB.

I'm taking the summer session and I really can not handle the workload. We have so much reading (200+ pages per week) plus two 30ish minute lectures/week as well as around 2 hours of films. Likewise, we're expected to write two 4 page papers and take a midterm and a final. No help/assistance through this process. Prof is inaccessible. Don't take.

Her class is the worst experience at UCSB. Not caring, tough grader and absolutely wasted time with her! Don't take her class unless you have to!