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Q&A with Diana W. Anselmo, author of A Queer Way of Feeling

Apr 11 2023
Part of our Feminist Media Histories series, A Queer Way of Feeling gathers an unexplored archive of fan-made scrapbooks, letters, diaries, and photographs to explore how girls coming of age in the United States in the 1910s used cinema to forge a foundational language of female nonconformity, intim
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The Surprising Role of Sleep in Moving Image Media

Apr 06 2023
By Jean Ma, author of At the Edges of Sleep: Moving Images and Somnolent SpectatorConnections between sleep and moving images permeate the entire history of cinema and moving image media, from the countless early films that begin with a character who goes to bed to contemporary audio-visual
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Q&A with Marsha Gordon, author of Becoming the Ex-Wife

Apr 05 2023
Credited with popularizing the label "ex-wife" in 1929, Ursula Parrott wrote provocatively about divorcées, career women, single mothers, work-life balance, and a host of new challenges facing modern women. Her best sellers, Hollywood film deals, marriages and divorces, and run-ins with the law made
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Border Activist and Critic Michael Dear’s Top 15 Border Films

Feb 08 2023
By Michael Dear, author of Border Witness: Reimagining the US-Mexico Borderlands through FilmOver the past two decades, there has been an explosion of film releases about the US-Mexico borderlands. Not surprisingly, many have addressed issues of drug trafficking and cartels as well as immigr
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