In "Safi Faye with and against the United Nations: African Women, Development Filmmaking, and the Neoliberal Turn," Nikolaus Perneczky examines the development films of Senegalese filmmaker Safi Faye. Read for free now: doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
Feminist Media Histories
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Feminist Media Histories examines the role gender has played in media across a range of historical periods and global contexts. Published quarterly by UC Press. Sign up for our seasonal newsletter: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/kxDtFBP
In "Threadbare Politics: Feminist T-Shirts as Queer Media," Catherine A. Evans argues that T-shirts are, indeed, media, centering activist Kipp Dawson’s collection of over 250 political shirts. @caevans.bsky.social Read for free now! doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
Miguel Errazu's "Abundance and Frustration: Women’s Labor and the Archive of the Miners’ Film Workshop" recovers the story of women's labour in the 1983 Super 8 training project established between the Bolivian Mineworkers' Federation and French NGO Association Varan. Free! doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
12(3) "Fashion as/and Media," guest edited by Roberto Filippello and Ilya Parkins, is now live! In this issue fashion operates intermedially, foregrounding its relational capacity across photography, television, magazines, and novels. —Editors' Introduction, FREE NOW: doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
In "Seeing and Unseeing like a State: Configuring Indian Women in Official Films," Ritika Kaushik finds the possibility of identifying affective encounters and subjective experiences that exceed the bounds of the state’s developmental agendas. FREE to read now! doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
We are excited to announce a Pride Month Special, in which we are re-releasing SIX essays for the month of the June! Work from Candace Moore, Ryan Powell, Ann Cvetkovich, Kiki Loveday, Iris Pint, and Celiany Rivera-Velázquez is FREE for the month of June www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/f...
Weixian Pan's "Terra-Developmentalism: Cinematic Construction of Women Geologists and Resource Frontiers in Early Socialist China" is now FREE! doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
Alejandra Rosenberg Navarro's "Aesthetics of Development: Modern Industries in the Ehlers Sisters’ Mexican Films (1919-1922)" is now FREE for a limited time! doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
Austrian avant-garde artist VALIE EXPORT died one week ago, days before her 86th birthday. In honor of her work, we share Jeff Scheible's speculative research article, "Expanded Cinema, Recycled Cinema: A Ping-Pong Volley between VALIE EXPORT and Agnès Varda"—now open access doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
Our Spring 2026 issue—"Gender, Media, and Developmentalism," guest edited by Dalila Missero and Masha Salazkina—is now LIVE! online.ucpress.edu/fmh/issue/12/2 Editors' Introduction, open access NOW: doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
In "When Sex Is on TV," Helena Shaskevich examines Julie Gustafson's groundbreaking feminist video as a pivotal case study in the relationship between intimacy, sexual politics, and diverging scales of television between the 1970s and mid-1980s in the U.S OPEN ACCESS NOW: doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
In “The Hauntology of Chinese Cyberfeminism,” Crassula Shang traces how Chinese cyberfeminist histories persist through hauntings rather than empirical records, and how such hauntings reveal a deeply global and material struggle. Open access TODAY: doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
Sergio Rigoletto's "Spectral Proximities: Speculations on the Mediterranean Beach" argues that reorienting the camera on the Sicilian beach of Sampieri allows the recognition of a spectral proximity that implicates queerness within the scene of migrant death. Open access now! doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
Open access NOW—Carla Mereu Keating and Catherine O'Rawe discuss the challenges faced in researching women's contributions to the Italian film industry. READ a history of film studios STUDIOTEC: Film Studios in Britain, France, Germany and Italy, 1930–60. doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
Katie Kirkland theorizes documentary as a practice of intimate exchange through a reading of Emily Jacir’s epistolary film 'Letter to a Friend' (2019)—a speculative, counterforesic investigation of her familial home in Bethlehem (Dar Jacir) as the site of a future crime FREE doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
In "Speculative Knowledge and the Situated 'Dispositifs' of Zora Neale Hurston and Stella Adler’s Digital Film Collections," Tanya Clement and Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth propose strategies for speculating in dialogue these recently digitized artifacts. Don't miss it! doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
Anjo-marí Gouws argues that Jane Wodening was not Stan Brakhage’s muse. Rather, through her body and her labor, she was his medium. Read "By Brakhage, or What We Owe Jane Wodening" for free: doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
In "Folding the Pages of Computer History: Occupational Health and Office Space," Rose Rowson argues that obstetric concerns and technologies should be integrated into the history of computing. Read for free today! doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
Usha Iyer maps the stickiness of transregional flows and blockages through the performative repertoires of an Indian orchestra singer, Kanchan, and a double diasporic, Indo- Caribbean-Canadian drag queen, Priyanka. “The Sticky Intimacies of Jammin’" is open access now: doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
In “Doing More with Less: Informed Speculation as Method,” Allyson Nadia Field embraces the forms of imaginative, creative, and experimental writing of film/media history while at the same time urging rigorous and responsible scholarship Download for free and hold it close— doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
In "Heat Is a Power Relation: Standards, Standpoints, and the Intimacies of Comfort," Sasha Crawford-Holland analyzes how media distribute thermal dis/comfort, arguing that heat is not only a physical relation, but a power relation. @sashach.bsky.social Read for free now: doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
In "Ancestral Intelligences," Mashinka Firunts Hakopian articulates feminist interventions into dominant imaginaries of artificial intelligence and algorithmic visual culture. Excerpts forthcoming in 'Ancestral Intelligences: Diasporic Technologies of Worldmaking'! doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
Another open access "note" on historical methods by Srijita Banerjee! doi.org/10.1525/fmh.... Through scrapbooking, DIY-ing and hand-crafting paper, Jodie Mack creates a kaleidoscopic filmic world that speaks to the marginalized and suppressed nature of feminized labour in 'Dusty Stacks of Mom'.
12(1) "Intimacies of Scale," guest edited by J. D. Schnepf, Tess Takahashi, and Laliv Melamed, is now live! "A consideration of histories of intimacy as a matter of mediating scale brings into view different possible futures." —Editors' Introduction, open access NOW: doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
In our latest issue, Laura McMahon explores an increasingly distinct tendency in Black feminist experimental film and video to turn to dance as a way of reimagining colonial histories, archives, and afterlives. Open access now! doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
Candace Moore considers recent television scenes that deliver intermittent jolts of queerness—hits of pleasure between the archive and the explorative viewer—to define a method that acknowledges fluctuating degrees of interest when historicizing queer television Open access! doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
Through an examination of the Muslim call to prayer opening Julie Dash's "Daughters of the Dust" (1991), Pardis Dabashi's article examines certainty and doubt generated by the speculative turn in Black feminist film and media historiography. Open access today: doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
What are the risks—and opportunities—of drawing close to one's objects of study as a feminist scholar? Alix Beeston reflects on her experience of writing a critical–creative account of women and girls in photography history. @alixbeeston.bsky.social Open access now: doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
Carly Kocurek's digital collage "Becoming Lara" imagines a middle-aged Lara Croft through the lens of an imagined feature in a women's magazine @sparklebliss.bsky.social Open access now! online.ucpress.edu/.../11/3/118...
Our Fall 2025 issue "Notes on Historical Methods" is now live! In her introduction, Katherine Groo reflects on the voices of historical writing, the long history of feminist methods, and the guiding concept and structure of the "note" itself. Open access for a limited time: doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
