By Lara Gabrielle, author of forthcoming Captain of Her Soul: The Life of Marion Davies
On 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 ...
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 h...
New Spring 2021 Issue
“It’s rare in the life of an editor that every feature stands outas special, but such is the case in this wonderful issue.”—B. Ruby Rich, Editor of Film Quarterly
During the 2021 virtual conference of the Society for Film and Media Studies (SCMS), Film Quar...
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 vid...
The past year was marked by upheaval and activism. And it was marked by sound. From our collectively heightened awareness of birdsong to chants calling for abolition, 2020 was a year defined by aural crisis and calls for justice. A special issue of Resonance, “The Soundwork of Media Activ...
We’re proud to announce that Brian Jacobson, editor of In the Studio: Visual Creation and Its Material Environments has won the 2021 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Best Edited Collection Award!
We reached out to Jacobson as part of our #SCMS2021 virtual conference series to d...
By Caetlin Benson-Allott, author of The Stuff of Spectatorship: Material Cultures of Film and Television
This guest post is part of our #SCMS2021 conference series. Visit our virtual exhibit to learn more.
In January 2018, Vice reporter Emerson Rosenthal observed that “watching ...
By Haidee Wasson, author of Everyday Movies: Portable Film Projectors and the Transformation of American Culture
This 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...