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.
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Feminist Media Histories
Weixian Pan's "Terra-Developmentalism: Cinematic Construction of Women Geologists and Resource Frontiers in Early Socialist China" is now FREE!
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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
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Feminist Media Histories
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....
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.
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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....
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
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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....
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!
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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....
Alejandra Rosenberg Navarro's "Aesthetics of Development: Modern Industries in the Ehlers Sisters’ Mexican Films (1919-1922)" is now FREE for a limited time!
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