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 selec...
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 commu...
By Táhirih Motazedian, author of Key Constellations: Interpreting Tonality in Film
My path to music theory and film music was a circuitous one: in college I originally started out as a music performance major, then (due to a hand injury) I entered the world of planetary science, and af...
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-revie...
By Annie Berke, author of Their Own Best Creations: Women Writers in Postwar Television
At a recent book event– co-hosted with Liz Clarke, author of The American Girl Goes to War– one participant asked: “How did you decide what to put in the book and what to leave out?”
Having relie...
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 Indepen...
By Dana Polan, author of Dreams of Flight: “The Great Escape” in American Film and Culture
I had long wanted to revisit the 1963 classic The Great Escape, ever since seeing it as a kid at a drive-in re-release in the mid-60s. Like many young American boys of the time, I imagine, I went...
Film Culture: The Legacy of the Pacific Film Archive
Film Quarterly marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Pacific Film Archive (now officially known as BAMPFA) with a webinar discussion of the PFA’s invaluable role in cultivating film culture that expands upon the “Special Focus” i...
By J. T. Way, author of Agrotropolis: Youth, Street, and Nation in the New Urban Guatemala
As a scholar whose research applies directly as testimony in asylum cases, I am well-versed in why thousands of Guatemalans are fleeing for their lives. I explain many of these realities in my ne...
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In this video, scholar Samantha Sheppard offers a sneak peek at her book, Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen.
“In her fusion of theories o...