Feminist Media Histories examines the historical role gender has played in media across a range of historical periods and global contexts.
Feminist Media Histories is a new journal publishing original research, oral histories, primary documents, conference reports, and archival news on radio, television, film, video, digital technologies, and other media across a range of historical periods and global contexts. Inter-medial and trans-national in its approach, Feminist Media Histories examines the historical role gender has played in
varied media technologies, and documents women’s engagements with these media as audiences, users and consumers, creators and executives, critics, writers and theorists, technicians and laborers, educators, activists, and librarians.
In our 10.2-3 issue, Kate Saccone reflects on her work curating lost films directed, written, and produced by early women filmmakers from Peru, Croatia, Egypt, China, Mexico, Poland, and the United States.
Read the essay for free here: https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/10/2-3/145/200384/Wrath-Witches-and-Wondrous-Women-A-Curated-Program
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In 10.2-3, Shelley Stamp urges us to ask broader questions about how gender has informed collecting, curating, and cataloging practices. Read her report on the 2023 FIAF “Women, Cinema, and Film Archives” Symposium here: https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/10/2-3/140/200376/Conference-ReportFIAF-Symposium-Women-Cinema-and
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In our 10.2-3 issue, Gabriela Yepes-Rossel talks about her curatorial work Rebeldes y Valientes/Rebels and Braves (1913–2019), the first digital archive on the participation of women filmmakers in the history of Peruvian cinema. Read the essay here: https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/10/2-3/258/200379/Curating-DisruptionReflections-from-Peru-on
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📢Another CFP alert! Special issue on the Women of IMAX, guest edited by Jessica Mulvogue and Allison Whitney. Proposals are due September 30, 2024:https://online.ucpress.edu/DocumentLibrary/CFP_Women%20of%20IMAX.docx.pdf
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📣We have a new CFP! Special Issue on Fashion in Media Histories, guest edited by Roberto Filippello and Ilya Parkins. Proposals are due September 9, 2024:https://online.ucpress.edu/DocumentLibrary/CFP_Fashion%20in%20Media%20Histories.docx.pdf
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“In 1976, a remarkable group of Black feminist artists organized the first ever Black women’s film festival, the Sojourner Truth Festival of the Arts, at the Women’s Interart Center in New York.”
Read Hayley O’Malley’s article, published on July 1, 2022, for free here! https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/8/3/127/190673/The-1976-Sojourner-Truth-Festival-of-the-ArtsA
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FMH authors Allyson Field and Hayley O’Malley talk with Black feminist curators Ina Archer, Cheryl Chisholm, Monica Freeman, Jennifer Lawson, O.Funmilayo Makarah, and Yvonne Welbon about their past and present film programming projects.
Read the roundtable in our 10.2-3 issue for free here: https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/10/2-3/87/200391/Histories-and-Futures-of-Black-Feminist-Film
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Club Des Femmes, a q***r feminist film curation collective since 2007, reflects on how the collective experience of watching films together creates radicalism and resistance in and outside academia. Read their “messyfesto” in our 10.2-3 issue for free here:
https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/10/2-3/166/200388/Dragging-the-ArchiveA-Club-Des-Femmes-Messyfesto
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Check out the “Not Your Model Minority” roundtable in our latest issue! Co-curated by precariously employed faculty at San José State University, California, the roundtable discusses how a film retrospective on Asian American documentary filmmaker, producer, and activist Renee Tajima-Peña turned into a space for feminist-oriented communal sharing and caring.
Read the roundtable for free here: https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/10/2-3/126/200380/Not-Your-Model-MinorityThe-Art-and-Activism-of
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📢FMH editor-in-chief Jennifer Bean interviews guest editors Maggie Hennefeld and Laura Horak about their experiences curating our latest 10.2-3 issue. Read the interview on the UC Press blog here: https://www.ucpress.edu/blog/65482/why-we-curate-feminist-film-archives-a-qa-with-feminist-media-histories-guest-editors-maggie-hennefeld-and-laura-horak/
Also, our latest 10.2-3 issue, “Curating Feminist Film Archives,” is now free for a limited time!
Access the full issue here: https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/issue/10/2-3
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Feminist Media Histories | 10 | 2-3 | April 2024
Get ready for 'Feminist World-Making with Cinema's First Nasty Women'!! The collection's three curators – Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak, and Elif Kaynakci – join a panel of esteemed historians, archivists, filmmakers, and composers to salvage the future from the dustbins of history by way of forgotten feminist media archives.
Read the roundtable for free here: https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/10/2-3/114/200392/Feminist-World-Making-with-Cinema-s-First-Nasty
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Cinema's First Nasty Women
In our 10.2-3 issue, Claire Cooley embraces the scattered nature of materials on female cine-workers in contexts such as Egypt and Iran, and ponders its implications for a decolonial, feminist practice of film curation.
Read the essay for here:
https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/10/2-3/10/200393/Gathering-Despite-ScatteringA-Feminist-and
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Happy April! We are pleased to announce that our brand new Spring and Summer double issue, “Curating Feminist Film Archives” guest edited by Maggie Hennefeld and Laura Horak, is now live! Read the editors’ introduction for free here:
https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/10/2-3/1/200378/Editors-IntroductionWhy-We-Curate-Feminist-Film
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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? W...
In our 9.4 issue, Briand Gentry examines US female hula celebrities and the appropriated Hawaiianness they choreographed in the rhythms of industrial imperialism at the turn of the 20th century.
Read the essay for free here: https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/9/4/81/197475/More-Hawaiian-Than-Hawaii-Itself-The-Hula-Craze
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In celebration of Women’s History Month, we have released the guest editors’ introductions from the past nine Spring issues. Check out these introductions on our website: https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/issue/browse-by-year
Also, don’t miss out on our free subscription offer! Details can be found here: https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/pages/free_subscription_offer
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In our 9.4 issue, Lexington Davis explores how International Videoletters, a 1975–77 video exchange network, fostered a feminist counterpublic committed to transforming media representation of women.
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https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/9/4/108/197471/Creating-a-Feminist-Nation-The-International
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In our 10.1 issue, Rukmini Pande digs into “antis” in fandom, and why we need to be careful about its framing power, especially with regard to anti-racist critiques.
Read it for here: https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/10/1/107/198682/Get-out-of-here-you-anti-Historizing-the-Operation
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In our 9.4 issue, LeiLani Nishime talks with the directors of the independent Seattle Asian American Film Festival – Ellison Shieh and Vanessa Au – about why they think the festival is "inherently feminist."
Read the interview for here: https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/9/4/151/197473/Creating-CommunityAn-Interview-with-Vanessa-Au-and
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In our latest issue, Raven Maragh-Lloyd talks with Brooklyne Gipson and Kishonna Gray about Black feminism, q***rness, and intersectionality in digital media studies and the conundrum of harm, pleasure, and nuance online.
Read the roundtable for here: https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/10/1/131/198680/Digital-Pleasure-and-DangerA-Roundtable-Discussion?searchresult=1
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This roundtable discussion features two leading scholars of critical race and digital media, Drs. Brooklyne Gipson and Kishonna Gray. The impacts of pleasure and danger on social network sites and digital media certainly predate these technologies yet are heightened in unique ways by their affordanc...
In our 9.4 issue, Kallan Benjamin speculates about the mysterious screenwriting project Zora Neale Hurston worked on for Paramount Pictures in late 1941, proposing an answer that only raises more questions. Read it for here: https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/9/4/53/197472/In-Search-of-Zora-Neale-Hurston-in-Hollywood
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How do fans, artists, and bookstores come together to make movements?
Check out Nicholas Sammond’s article on correspondence and community in q***r and women’s comix in our 10.1 issue for here: https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/10/1/57/198683/Letters-Queer-and-Women-s-Comix-and-Making
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In our latest issue, Reem Hilu talks with Wendy Chun about the continuities and differences between contemporary mediated communities online and longer histories of media connection-making.
Read the interview for here: https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/10/1/17/198681/Long-Histories-of-Mediated-CommunityAn-Interview
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Reem Hilu interviews Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Simon Fraser University’s Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media in the School of Communication, professor of Communication, and director of the Digital Democracies Institute. Chun discusses her work that historicizes the utopian and dystopian framings of...
Happy New Year!
We are pleased to announce that our brand new Winter 2024 issue on Media Identitopias is now live! Read guest editors Rebecca Wanzo and Reem Hilu’s introduction “The Long History of Social Media” for here: https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/10/1/1/198679/Editors-IntroductionThe-Long-History-of-Social
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When a whistleblower from Facebook (now Meta), leaked the company’s research showing that Instagram was psychologically harmful to girls, newspapers and public commentary framed this as a revelation, but the story felt familiar.1 It seemed another example of a media panic, which many scholars expl...
In our 9.4 issue, Sarah Choi talks with Sasha Su-Ling Welland (UW GWSS) and Sabrina Craig ( Side Home Movie Project) about cross-generational storytelling as a feminist practice.
Read the interview for here:
https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/9/4/135/197474/Cross-Generational-StorytellingA-Conversation-with?searchresult=1
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Barbara Zecchi’s video essay in our 9.4 issue delves into the systematic erasure and archival dispossession of Helena Cortesina and her lost film Flor de España (1922), which was falsely attributed to a male director.
Read it for here:
https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/9/4/14/197469/Filling-Feeling-the-Archival-VoidThe-Case-of
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In her video essay “Climate Rage: Extractivism and Dispossession in The Olive Tree,” 9.4 author Celia Sainz explores the emotion of anger toward ecological degradation through the film El Olivo (The Olive Tree, 2016).
Read it for here: https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/9/4/28/197467/Climate-RageExtractivism-and-Dispossession-in-The
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In our latest Fall issue, Terri Francis talks about her video essay Joséphine Baker Watches Herself, in which she reframes Baker as a thinking spectator of her own work.
Read it for here: https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/9/4/32/197468/Josephine-Baker-Watches-Herself
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In our Fall 2023 issue, Catherine Grant talks about her 2019 work Falling: 3 x Girls in Uniform, a videographic study of three film adaptations of Das Mädchen Manuela, and why she would describe it as having been composed primarily according to a curatorial logic.
Read it for here: https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/9/4/44/197470/Falling-3-x-Girls-in-UniformThe-Video-Essay-as
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🏆Current grad students: Don't forget to submit your essay to the SCMS Gender and Feminisms Caucus Graduate Student Writing Prize! Essays are due Nov 1, 2023.
More information: https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/pages/awards
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Awards | Feminist Media Histories | University of California Press Awards SCMS Gender and Feminisms Caucus Graduate Student Writing Prize The SCMS Gender and Feminisms Caucus Graduate Student Writing Prize, co-sponsored by Feminist Media Histories, recognizes outstanding scholarship in...
🎉🎊Our brand NEW Fall issue is now live! Jennifer M. Bean’s introduction, “Feeling Videographic Criticism” is now to read on our website:
https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/9/4/1/197466/IntroductionFeeling-Videographic-Criticism
This issue includes four outstanding video essays by Barbara Zecchi, Celia Sainz, Terri Francis, and Catherine Grant, that are also to watch/read for a limited time! Don't miss out!
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Where videographic essays can take a scholarly lead is in drawing on the feminist, postcolonial, critical race, critical and digital media scholarship that strips ‘the archive’ of any possible claims of disinterested innocence.—Susan Harewood1You can almost feel that passion for research.—Ja...
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