...Maggie Hennefeld; Laura Horak; Rachel Loewen Cinema’s First Nasty Women is a ninety-nine-film DVD/Blu-ray set that highlights silent-era comediennes and cross-dressed women. Cocurators Maggie Hennefeld and Laura Horak organized two live Zoom roundtables with members of the team who had created...

...Terri Francis The cultural phenomenon of international superstar and American ex-pat extraordinaire Joséphine Baker’s success in Paris is mediated primarily through its documentation on film transferred to video and digital formats. In many ways, Baker is a media marvel. Meanwhile, much...

...Laura Horak Queer film scholar Laura Horak interviews Ann Thomas, founder and president of Transgender Talent, one of the first management companies devoted to managing openly trans performers. Thomas discusses how the various parts of Hollywood that work in the background—from managers and agents...

...Isra Ali First-generation US filmmakers rooted in the women's liberation movement embraced documentary realism as a form that stood in contrast to the artificiality of studio feature filmmaking: “The ‘real’ in the Feminist Film Movement thus marks both an aesthetic experiment and a political...

...=reprints . 2018 costume fashion film Film costume design is a profession that has been dominated by women since the industry's beginning and, although it is an influential cinematic art, it is one of the least recognized. One reason is that although a film costume is a highly constructed...

...Natalie Wreyford; Shelley Cobb This article addresses how feminist interrogations of research methods and knowledge claims have an important role to play in the collection and dispersion of quantitative data. Taking the contemporary film industry as a historical formation, and seeking to identify...