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....

In 11(3), Samantha Blackmon's Critical Let’s Play video looks at how colonization has seeped into the very mechanics of the latest installment in the Tomb Raider series—a mechanic she calls "Magic Colonizer Fingers." Open access for two weeks! doi.org/10.1525/fmh....

In 11.3, Rukmini Pande discusses how Lara Croft’s fans try and retrace her steps in real-world settings of the Tomb Raider universe, reinscribing the colonialist mechanics of the game on these locations. Read it for free! online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

For your GRADUATE students! Submissions for the SCMS Gender and Feminisms Caucus Graduate Student Writing Prize are due in ONE month on November 1, 2025. The winning essay will be published (subject to revision) in FMH. online.ucpress.edu/fmh/pages/aw...

FREE RESEARCH ARTICLE! Why did writers say Lara Croft was trans? What was her actual relationship to the “male gamer”? Look out for a guest appearance by Mario, and for the author’s own trans memories from the y2k era. online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

New free article! “Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft” explores the legacy of her star turn in Simon West’s 2001 blockbuster (Lara Croft: Tomb Raider), connecting it to fascinating shifts in women as top-billed, blockbuster action stars around the turn of the century. online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

New free article! 😍 In this article, Trung M. Nguyen interrogates the issue of looted non-Western cultural objects by examining the performances of two women: Lara Croft and Sophiline Cheam-Shapiro, renowned Cambodian artist and dancer. online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

Free article! 🙂 Lara Croft has been viewed as a feminist icon for decades but her deep-seated colonial bias has often been ignored. In this article, Souvik Mukherjee explores the problematic coloniality of Lara as the 'tomb raider.' online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

The 11.3 issue of FMH is live! 🤩🥳 This issue is devoted to the 30th anniversary of Lara Croft, with every article discussing the character and the Tomb Raider franchise! You can read the editors' introduction, written by Amanda Phillips and Josef Nguyen, below: online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

We have a new CFP! A special issue on Feminist Archaeologies of Desktop media, guest edited by Jiří Anger & Veronika Hanáková. The deadline for proposals is October 28, 2025. Read the full CFP below: online.ucpress.edu/fmh/pages/cfp

New free article! In this essay, Katerina Korola looks at filmmaker and zoologist Lola Kreutzberg's ethnographic film Bali, das Wunderlan (1927), and assesses the construction of the Weimar New Woman in a wider colonial field. online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

Free article alert! 💞 In this essay, Ankita Deb examines how nontheatrical films on sex education from Europe and North America were recirculated by B-circuit filmmakers in India and, in so doing, suffused with feminist and queer possibilities. online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

New free article! 🥳 Liz Czach shines a light on Judith Crawley whose film, Four New Apple Dishes (1940), makes evident how some women-identified filmmakers made nontheatrical films for and about women. online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

We have a new free article! 🥰 In this essay, Sonia García López and Marina Cavalcanti Tedesco explore the life and work of Rosina Prado, a Spanish-Soviet anti-fascist filmmaker who made documentaries at the ICAIC (Cuba) in the 1960s. online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

We have a new CFP! A special issue on the Long 1970s guest edited by Navaneetha Mokkil and Nitya Vasudevan! Submission deadline is August 1, 2025. Read the full CFP here: online.ucpress.edu/fmh/pages/cfp

Free article alert! In the piece, Jasmyn Castro explores the success African American WACs (Women’s Army Corps) experienced, and the challenging assumptions and beliefs that affected the trajectory of Black women in technical film trades. online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

The 11.2 issue of Feminist Media Histories is live! 🤩 This issue is devoted to "Nontheatrical Medias" and is guest edited by Tanya Goldman and Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa. You can read their introduction below: online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

Happy Transgender Day of Visibility! 🏳️‍⚧️💗 To celebrate, we have made several of our essays that focus on trans scholarship free to access throughout this week! 🧵

Free article! 🤩 In this essay, Ryan Nhu looks at Suzanne, Suzanne (1982) and Finding Christa (1991) in relation to how they defamiliarize familial relationships and democratize care work in ways that resonate with the motives of family abolitionism. online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

Free article! 😄 In this essay, Michele Prettyman analyzes the film Older Women and Love (1987) as a case study and commentary on the complexity of women’s self-possession as they navigate sexual intimacy, aging, relationships to their bodies, and death. online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

Free article! 😄 Ruth Feldstein's essay looks at Camille Billops and perhaps her most famous film, Finding Christa (1991). This essay illuminates the different strategies that Black women filmmakers employed to produce a multifaceted Black feminism. online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

Along with the publication of her essay on Hattie Noel in our 11.1 issue, grad essay award-winner Samantha Silver sat down with the folks at @ucpress.bsky.social and discussed the significance of Noel's career. You can read the entire interview here: www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/u...

This week's free article is authored by Samantha Silver, winner of the SCMS Gender and Feminisms Grad Student Writing Award! Silver’s article looks at comedian, actor, and blues singer Hattie Noel and traces the history between the blues and stand-up comedy. online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

Free article! 😀 Michele Washington (@culturalboundaries.bsky.social) analyzes Take Your Bags (1998), an experimental film steeped in the semiotics of racial identity and the enslavement of black bodies. online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

Free article! 🥳 In this retrospective, filmmakers JT Takagi, George C. Wolfe, Dion Hatch, and others, discuss the artistic process, atmosphere, and vision of filmmaking duo and life partners Camille Billops and James Hatch. online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

Free article alert! In our 11.1 issue, Carla Italiano analyzes Camille Billops and James Hatch's final film, A String of Pearls. The essay investigates the film's sense of community, its self-representational practices, and its dense dimension of temporality. online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

Reminder: Our 11.1 issue is free to read throughout Black History Month 🙂 Here is one of the essays included in the issue:

In this piece from our 11.1 issue, Joshua Chambers-Letson tracks the centering of performance and theatricality in Camille Billops and James V. Hatch's interrogation of race and racism in The KKK Boutique Ain’t Just Rednecks (1994). Read the full essay here: online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

And in celebration of Black History Month, this issue will stream freely on the UC Press website through the end of February! We will continue to share and promote the issue's contents throughout the week!

We are pleased to announce that our brand new issue, “Camille Billops and James V. Hatch: A Certain Defiance", guest edited by Terri Francis and Miriam Petty, is now live! You can read the editors' introduction here: online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

New free article from our 10.4 issue! Orianna Calderón-Sandoval, Ángela Rivera-Izquierdo and Adelina Sánchez Espinosa's piece: "Race-ing Masculinity: An Intersectional Analysis of the Spanish Public Platform Series Riders" Read the article here: online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

Happy Holidays! ⛄️ We have a new CFP! Special Issue on Reproductive Politics & Media Histories, guest edited by Shelley Stamp. Proposals are due April 1, 2025: online.ucpress.edu/DocumentLibr...

In our 10.4 issue, Luisa González explores how women-led digital activist groups used the internet to set up political actions and create online places for care and mourning during the 2021 Colombian national strike. Read González's essay here: online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

In our 10.4 issue, Frances Negrón-Muntaner explores how Yoani Sanchez, a virtually unknown Cuban blogger, became a media sensation and helped to reshape Cuba. Read Negrón-Muntaner's essay here: online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...