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“What do we, as feminists, need right now—from cinema, from archives, from our communities? How can filmmaking, film festivals, and social movements of the past inspire or befuddle us today? And what is at stake in selecting and presenting archival works by women to create new forms of community?”

In celebration of Women's History Month, we've removed the paywall from the guest editors’ introductions from the past nine Spring issues of Feminist Media Histories (FMH). As we anticipate the journal's tenth anniversary issue (forthcoming in April 2024), we invite you to read this selection of con

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Part of our Feminist Media Histories series, A Queer Way of Feeling gathers an unexplored archive of fan-made scrapbooks, letters, diaries, and photographs to explore how girls coming of age in the United States in the 1910s used cinema to forge a foundational language of female nonconformity, intim

For #SCMS22, we're pleased to offer free online content from Film Quarterly, Feminist Media Histories, Representations, Afterimage, and more. In Film Quarterly's new March issue,Diana Flores Ruíz considers the works of filmmaker Sky Hopinka, a Ho-Chunk Nation national and descendent of t

UC Press is excited to share with you some new publications and recent highlights from the University of California Press’s Film and Media Studies list. UC Press has the oldest scholarly cinema studies list in the country, which has always emphasized the history of cinema as an art form and as an in

This week as we convene virtually for the College Art Association's 2022 conference, we invite you to read the current issues of UC Press's art journals for free online. Click on the journal covers below to access the free issues.

As we convene virtually for this year's conference of the American Studies Association, we invite you to read the current issues of the following journals for free from the comfort of your own home. Click on the journal covers below to access the free issues.

Poster of movie 'Kunku' (Marathi)/ 'Duniya Na Mane' (Hindi), 1937, by V. Shantaram.In 1939, at the height of her stardom, the actress Shanta Apte went on a spectacular hunger strike in protest against her employers at Prabhat Studios in Poona, India. The following year, Apte wrote a harsh polemi

In this edition of our UC Press Editor Spotlight Series, we sat down with our Music, Film, and Media Studies Editor Raina Polivka, to discuss what drew her to her disciplines, what types of projects she’s looking for, and her time working at the Kinsey Institute. Read on or watch the video below to