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Why We Curate Feminist Film Archives: A Q&A with Feminist Media Histories Guest Editors Maggie Hennefeld and Laura Horak
May 13 2024
“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?”
A Look Back at 10 Years of Feminist Media Histories
Mar 14 2024
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
Q&A with Kathleen Loock, author of Hollywood Remaking
Mar 11 2024
From the inception of cinema to today’s franchise era, remaking has always been a motor of ongoing film production. Hollywood Remaking challenges the categorical dismissal in film criticism of remakes, sequels, and franchises by probing what these formats really do when they revisit familiar stories
Meet Film Quarterly‘s Incoming Editor: J. M. Tyree
Mar 08 2024
Photo Credit: Jason Brown, VCUarts Cinema StudentWe are pleased to introduce J. M. Tyree as Film Quarterly's incoming editor-in-chief. Tyree works as an Associate Professor in the Cinema Program at VCUarts, and has served as a Writer-at-Large and Contributing Editor at Film Quarterly, and as a N
Film Quarterly Call for Editor Applications
May 31 2023
University of California Press (UC Press) is seeking applications for the editorship of the journal Film Quarterly. The applicant appointed to this position will succeed Interim Editor Rebecca Prime when her term ends June, 30 2024.Film Quarterly (FQ) has been publishing peer-reviewed articles,
The Surprising Role of Sleep in Moving Image Media
Apr 06 2023
By Jean Ma, author of At the Edges of Sleep: Moving Images and Somnolent SpectatorConnections between sleep and moving images permeate the entire history of cinema and moving image media, from the countless early films that begin with a character who goes to bed to contemporary audio-visual
UC Press February Award Winners
Mar 10 2023
UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are several of our February 2023 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news!Kaveh Askari 2023 Katherine Singer Kovàcs Book AwardSociety for Cinema and Medi
From Celebrated Film Scholar Dudley Andrew: Andre Bazin on Adaptation
Apr 01 2022
Available for the first time in English, these previously unavailable essays introduce readers to the foundational concepts of the relationship between film and literary adaptation as put forth by one of the greatest film and cultural critics of the 20th century.Adaptation was central to André B
Relaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran — A Found Audio Tour
Mar 31 2022
By Kaveh Askari, author of Relaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran: Material Cultures in TransitRelaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran investigates how the cultural translation of cinema has been shaped by the physical translation of its ephemera. I examine film circulation and its effect on Iranian
Q&A with Noah Tsika, author of Cinematic Independence
Mar 28 2022
Noah Tsika is Associate Professor of Media Studies at Queens College, City University of New York. He is contributing editor of Africa Is a Country and the author of several books, including Traumatic Imprints and Nollywood Stars. He is also a first-generation scholar.Cinematic Independence traces t