UC Press Blog

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.

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

Winner of two Golden Globes, "The Secret Agent" has been nominated for four Academy Awards. The film's critical success underscores the special moment Brazilian cinema is currently enjoying.

A Q&A with "Film Quarterly" contributor Anthony Michael D’Agostino

For me, Anderson is a filmmaker who read a book about state terror and counterfascist mobilization and metabolized Pynchon’s "Vineland" into the unlikeliest of things: a movie, a mass-cultural product that wants to think clearly and hard about the here-and-now-ness of an American fascism.

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

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

Hattie Noel was a trailblazer of the stand-up comedy form. While the visual archive shows her constrained in the controlling images of Disney’s hippo and Hollywood’s maid, her comedy albums tell a different story of Black representation.