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Film Quarterly's editor considers the legacy of film critic Pauline Kael.

"Latin American & Latinx Visual Culture" author Lucy O'Sullivan answers questions about her ALAA-acknowledged article on "Martyrdom in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction."

Author José Miguel Palacios on what solidarity might mean for film and media studies through Chilean exile film history.

Afterimage's new special issue, "Aesthetics of Perplexity," is interested in examining perplexity as an aesthetic category, in which the experience of confusion or bewilderment can be harnessed as an artistic tactic.

UC Press has great news to share about FirstGen program growth and seeks your support for its continued success. Here’s how our program has benefitted first-gen authors so far.

As a complex, dynamic system, wind challenged physics and scientific modelling capabilities while also presenting human imagination with the very embodiment of change and ephemera in spite of its apparent insubstantiality.

Darshana Sreedhar Mini, author of "Rated A," speaks about labor in soft porn in India and the unflattering treatment of actors.

Brian Fauteux, author of "Music in Orbit," writes about the legacy of satellite radio

Author Julia Alekseyeva discusses what lessons antifascist avanat-garde documentaries from the 1960s hold for our current political moment.

The co-editors of "Incomplete: The Feminist Possibilities of the Unfinished Film," winner of the SCMS 2025 Best Edited Collection Award, highlight five new projects that expand the horizons of the feminist incomplete.