From uwcinema at u.washington.edu Thu Jan 23 22:37:29 2025 From: uwcinema at u.washington.edu (UW Cinema Studies List via Uwcinema) Date: Fri Jan 24 09:30:48 2025 Subject: [UWcinema] Fwd: Feminist Media Histories - New Issue Winter 2025: Camille Billops and James V. Hatch: A Certain Defiance References: <1142074139722.1133768160073.1501688711.0.581801JL.2002@synd.ccsend.com> Message-ID: [https://files.constantcontact.com/94339d9f701/94e7f4d3-d00c-46e0-b686-88f974fa9963.jpg] ? CURRENT ISSUE Camille Billops and James V. Hatch: A Certain Defiance Vol. 11 No. 1, WINTER 2025 FEATURED ARTICLES EDITORIAL A Certain Defiance: The Filmic Art, Archives, and Activism of Camille Billops and James V. Hatch TERRI FRANCIS AND MIRIAM PETTY ARTICLES Break Yourself at Home: The Queer Hospitality of Camille Billops and James V. Hatch RYAN NHU Woman, Alone? Camille Billops, Self-Possession, and Older Women and Love (1987) MICHELE PRETTYMAN Framing Finding Christa: Black Feminisms and Films RUTH FELDSTEIN Black Memory in Take Your Bags: Experimental Film and the Meaning of Material Objects MICHELE Y. WASHINGTON As It Turns Out, What Was Being Staged Was: Racist Theatricality, Racial Reality, and The KKK Boutique Ain't Just Rednecks JOSHUA CHAMBERS-LETSON Futures Imperfect: Inscriptions of Self and Community in A String of Pearls CARLA ITALIANO ROUNDTABLES / COLLECTIVE AUTHORS A String of Pearls: On the Process, Practice, and Legacy of Camille Billops and James Hatch JT TAKAGI AND ROSELLY TORRES "A Gathering of Champions": A Conversation with the Billops-Hatch Advisory Board MIRIAM PETTY AND TOPE FADIRAN SCMS GENDER AND FEMINISMS CAUCUS AWARD WINNING ESSAY ?Funnier Than Moms Mabley": The Stand-Up Comedy of Hattie Noel SAMANTHA SILVER FUTURE ISSUES Nontheatrical Medias Guest editors Tanya Goldman and Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa The Lara Croft 30th Anniversary Special Issue Guest editors Amanda Phillips and Josef Nguyen Making History: Notes on Methods Guest editor Katherine Groo Intimacies of Scale Guest editors Tess Takahashi, Laliv Melamed, and JD Schepf [https://files.constantcontact.com/94339d9f701/91c9c7cd-6928-49d0-8067-ea4474b5e913.gif] [Facebook] [Twitter] Free 30-day trial subscriptions are available to all campus libraries. Remember: every issue of FMH is now available via Print on Demand. Details are here. Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the Winter 2025 issue of Feminist Media Histories, a special issue on "Camille Billops and James V. Hatch: A Certain Defiance", guest edited by Terri Francis and Miriam Petty. In celebration of Black History Month, this issue will stream freely on the UC Press website through the end of February! We are also excited to announce the winner and runner-up of the 2024 SCMS Gender and Feminisms Caucus Grad Essay Award: * Winner: Isabel Bartholomew - University of California, Irvine * Runner-Up: Beth Pyner - Cardiff University and the University of Exeter 2023's winning essay, authored by Samantha Silver, is included in this issue. Last but not least, we are delighted to share our two latest CFPs! * Special Issue on Craftwork within the Digital * Guest Editors: Christina Corfield & Whitney Trettien * Proposal deadline: February 15, 2025 * Special Issue on Reproductive Politics & Media Histories * Guest Editor: Shelley Stamp * Proposal deadline: April 1, 2025 Please be sure to follow us on Facebook and Bluesky for news about our limited-time free article access, upcoming events, and more! Editors' Introduction ? A Certain Defiance: The Filmic Art, Archives, and Activism of Camille Billops and James V. Hatch ?With their individual and collective archival impulses in mind, as a whole, the Hatch-Billops Collection was designed to redress the gaps created by American racism and anti-Blackness in particular. Incorporated and chartered in 1975 under the New York State Board of Regents as a not-for-profit research library, Jim and Camille articulated an eloquent and powerful mission statement consisting of ?three major purposes?: 1. To collect and preserve primary and secondary resource materials in the Black Cultural Arts 2. To provide tools and access to these materials for artists and scholars, as well as the general public 3. To develop programs in the arts that use the resources of the Collection Their sustained attention to Black aesthetic, cultural, historical, and communal matters and approaches was always expansive rather than exclusive. This sensibility is evident in their films, perhaps most explicitly in The KKK Boutique Ain?t Just Rednecks with its intraracial and global insights into racism and sexism, and even in Take Your Bags, with its diasporic understanding and critique of the pillaging of African creativity and humanity. But they were also unapologetic and unrepentant in their centering and championing of Black artistry in explicit defiance of American anti-Blackness?long before that term became fashionable or even widely circulated. We cannot possibly capture the profound variety and interdisciplinary of their work across time in this special issue, but we and some of our authors do gesture toward it in ways that are tantalizing and provocative. The six scholarly essays featured here provide new commentary and analysis of all six of the films that Billops and Hatch made together between 1982 and 2002, namely, Suzanne, Suzanne (1982); Older Women and Love (1987); Finding Christa (1991); The KKK Boutique Ain?t Just Rednecks: A DocuFantasy about Everybody?s Racism (1994); Take Your Bags (1998); and A String of Pearls (2002). The authors often return to a constellation of themes and ideas that are inextricable from the Billops-Hatch film canon: the legacies of family; the interplay between the personal and political in art, race, gender, age; intersectionality and its layered effects; the possibilities and limits of experimental aesthetics; the demands, pleasures, and banalities of partnership in life and work; and the consistently interdisciplinary and intermedial tendency of the work itself. [...] ? ? Feminist Media Histories publishes original research, oral histories, primary documents, conference reports, and archival news on radio, television, film, video, digital technologies, and other media across a range of historical periods and global contexts. Inter-medial and trans-national in its approach, Feminist Media Histories examines the historical role gender and sexuality have played in varied media technologies, and documents the engagement of women and LGBTQ communities with these media as audiences, users and consumers, creators and executives, critics, writers and theorists, technicians and laborers, educators, activists, and librarians. ? Feminist Media Histories is published quarterly by the University of California Press. ?More information is available here. Feminist Media Histories | University of California Press, 155 Grand Avenue | Oakland, CA 94612 US Unsubscribe | Update Profile | Constant Contact Data Notice [Constant Contact] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: