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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

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

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

We are pleased to offer a selection of our journals content for free online in conjunction with the virtual conference of the College Art Association (CAA). Explore the current issue of Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, which this year was named the "Best New Journal" by the Council of Edito

We're extending our free content offers for #MLA2021 through the end of January. Click on the journal covers below for limited-time, free content and be sure to explore any earlier MLA2021 posts you may have missed offering blog-exclusive content in conjunction with the virtual conference of the Mod

While the Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2020 Annual Conference in Denver, Colorado is cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, UC Press is committed to sharing the latest research in Film & Media Studies. Although we are unable to see you in person, we are honoring the 40% conference di

We’re marking the annual conference of the Modern Language Association, which is being held in Seattle from January 9-12, 2020, by offering limited-time, free online access to the current issues of a selection of our journals. Click on the links at the bottom of the covers below for access. Please s

In the latest issue of Feminist Media Histories on the theme of “Activism,” Marisa Hicks-Alcaraz and Eve Oishi co-wrote the essay “Negotiating Political Identity in Community-Based Film Festivals: Perspectives from Curator/Scholar/Activists.” Oishi and Hicks-Alcaraz met as professor and graduate stu