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The guest editors of Afterimage's new special issue explore how artists and activists are reimagining the U.S.–Mexico border through creative forms of resistance.

Author Diana Anselmo on how women’s queer pleasures in fandom are part of a century-long history of women using mass media to explore same-sex desire, gender nonconformity, and homoerotic fantasy.

"Feminist Media Histories" has removed the paywall from a selection of articles for Pride Month.

Enjoy limited-time free content from film and media studies journals during #SCMS26.

A brief look at Hollywood's last "Golden Age" with acclaimed author Thomas Schatz.

Authors Miranda Banks and Kate Fortmueller present excerpts from their new book about preparing for work in evolving landscape of Hollywood.

Author Allyson Nadia Field on rediscovering film and the first cinematic depiction of Black romance.

As new film adaptations bring Mary Shelley and Emily Brontë back into the spotlight, explore scholarship that examines the unsettling power of these nineteenth-century novels.

Author Laura Horak on the power and possibility of trans-made cinema today.

Recent scholarship from UC Press journals shows why opera and ballet still matter.