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...
By Raven Simone Maragh-Lloyd, author of Black Networked Resistance: Strategic Rearticulations in the Digital Age
For my sanity, I’ve mostly avoided politics this 2024 season. Yet somehow, I found myself glued to the television for the recent State of the Union address — the “superbowl”...
By Francesca Sobande, author of Big Brands Are Watching You: Marketing Social Justice and Digital Culture
Life can be loud. Many expressions point to different perceptions of online noise and the sounds of social media spaces, but a particularly popular concept that captures this is “m...
By Daniel Herbert, author of Maverick Movies: New Line Cinema and the Transformation of American Film
Most 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...
By Jennifer S. Clark, author of Producing Feminism: Television Work in the Age of Women’s Liberation
When I started writing a book about the women’s movement and television, I imagined that it would explore how feminism changed what Americans saw on their TV screens. But as the project...
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 fa...
Photo Credit: Jason Brown, VCUarts Cinema Student
We 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, ...
By Kartik Nair, author of Seeing Things: Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror
What makes a vampire burn in the light? We don’t quite know. But in her stylish short film, Suicide by Sunlight (2018), the filmmaker Nikyatu Jusu gives us a vampire who isn’t afraid of the day. With her p...
By Brooke Belisle, author of Depth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to Computation
Recent headlines are announcing the end of photography, as AI changes what counts as a photograph or makes it impossible to judge. The New York Times has published multiple, interactive articles promp...