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Trans Cinema Doesn’t Just Improve Visibility—It Imagines Better Worlds

Mar 10 2026
By Laura Horak, author of Trans Cinema: Making Communities, Identities, and WorldsSince the rise of the concept of “transgender” in the 1990s, many activists, filmmakers and scholars have worked to make trans people more visible. Those efforts have made a real impact — increasing trans visibility ha...
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How Brazilian Cinema Captured the Moment: A Q&A with Gerd Gemünden

Mar 09 2026
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.
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Whether or Not "Sinners" Wins the Oscar, Ryan Coogler’s Genre-Bending Film Signals a New Era for Original Cinema

Mar 06 2026
A Q&A with "Film Quarterly" contributor Anthony Michael D’Agostino
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"I hope 'One Battle After Another' wins a million awards": A Q&A with Peter Coviello

Feb 26 2026
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.
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Reverse Weather Vane: Pauline Kael and "Film Quarterly"

Sep 17 2025
Film Quarterly's editor considers the legacy of film critic Pauline Kael.
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Solidarity and World Cinema Otherwise

Jun 28 2025
Author José Miguel Palacios on what solidarity might mean for film and media studies through Chilean exile film history.
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Uncovering Stand-Up Comedy’s Feminist Media History

Feb 22 2025
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.
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Why We Curate Feminist Film Archives: A Q&A with Feminist Media Histories Guest Editors Maggie Hennefeld and Laura Horak

May 13 2024
“What do we, as feminists, need right now—from cinema, from archives, from our communities? How can filmmaking, film festivals, and social movements of the past inspire or befuddle us today? And what is at stake in selecting and presenting archival works by women to create new forms of community?”
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A Look Back at 10 Years of Feminist Media Histories

Mar 14 2024
In celebration of Women's History Month, we've removed the paywall from the guest editors’ introductions from the past nine Spring issues of Feminist Media Histories (FMH). As we anticipate the journal's tenth anniversary issue (forthcoming in April 2024), we invite you to read this selection of con
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Meet Film Quarterly‘s Incoming Editor: J. M. Tyree

Mar 08 2024
Photo Credit: Jason Brown, VCUarts Cinema StudentWe are pleased to introduce J. M. Tyree as Film Quarterly's incoming editor-in-chief. Tyree works as an Associate Professor in the Cinema Program at VCUarts, and has served as a Writer-at-Large and Contributing Editor at Film Quarterly, and as a N
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