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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
The Unexpected Success of the Eclectic New Line Cinema
Mar 12 2024
By Daniel Herbert, author of Maverick Movies: New Line Cinema and the Transformation of American FilmMost members of the public probably don’t know anything about New Line Cinema, the movie studio and subject of my recent book Maverick Movies: New Line Cinema and the Transformation of American F
A Tribute to David Bordwell and Cari Beauchamp
Mar 08 2024
With the recent loss of UC Press authors David Bordwell and Cari Beauchamp, our Film & Media Studies Editor Raina Polivka shares a reflection on their contributions and legacy in the film community.I am saddened to write that we've recently lost two major pillars of the film community: David
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,
Q&A with Marsha Gordon, author of Becoming the Ex-Wife
Apr 05 2023
Credited with popularizing the label "ex-wife" in 1929, Ursula Parrott wrote provocatively about divorcées, career women, single mothers, work-life balance, and a host of new challenges facing modern women. Her best sellers, Hollywood film deals, marriages and divorces, and run-ins with the law made
Revisiting an Oscar Night Controversy — in 1975
Mar 30 2022
By 1967, the commercial and political impact on Hollywood of the sixties counterculture had become impossible to ignore. The studios were in bad shape, still contending with a generation-long box office slump and struggling to get young people into the habit of going to the movies. Film historian J
Mank, Citizen Kane, and the True Legacy of Marion Davies
Mar 24 2021
By Lara Gabrielle, author of forthcoming Captain of Her Soul: The Life of Marion DaviesOn March 15, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominations for the 93rd Academy Awards. Leading the nominations is Mank, David Fincher’s latest film about the writing of Citizen Kan
The Surprising, Untold History of Portable Cinema
Mar 09 2021
By Haidee Wasson, author of Everyday Movies: Portable Film Projectors and the Transformation of American CultureThis guest post is part of our #SCMS2021 conference series. Visit our virtual exhibit to learn more.Have you ever panicked because you forgot your cell phone at home? As familiar a
Frame by Frame Shortlisted for Kraszna-Krausz Foundation
Aug 27 2020
The Kraszna-Krausz Foundation announced the long and shortlisted titles in the running for its 2020 Photography Book Award and Moving Image Book Award, and we are exceptionally pleased to see Frame by Frame: A Materialist Aesthetics of Animated Cartoons by Hannah Frank on the 2020 Moving Image Book