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"Feminist Media Histories" Celebrates Pride Month
Jun 22 2026
"Feminist Media Histories" has removed the paywall from a selection of articles for Pride Month.
Explore UC Press Film & Media Studies Journals at #SCMS26
Mar 25 2026
Enjoy limited-time free content from film and media studies journals during #SCMS26.
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.
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
Kovács Essay Award Winner on the Activism of Indian Film Star Shanta Apte
Mar 19 2021
Poster of movie 'Kunku' (Marathi)/ 'Duniya Na Mane' (Hindi), 1937, by V. Shantaram.In 1939, at the height of her stardom, the actress Shanta Apte went on a spectacular hunger strike in protest against her employers at Prabhat Studios in Poona, India. The following year, Apte wrote a harsh polemi
Film Festival Programming as Activism: A Q&A with Contributors to Feminist Media Histories’s Special Issue on “Media Activism”
Nov 07 2019
In the latest issue of Feminist Media Histories on the theme of “Activism,” Marisa Hicks-Alcaraz and Eve Oishi co-wrote the essay “Negotiating Political Identity in Community-Based Film Festivals: Perspectives from Curator/Scholar/Activists.” Oishi and Hicks-Alcaraz met as professor and graduate stu