by Marissa Woods Documentary’s growth both in popularity and profitability has been accompanied by a rise in questionable production practices. At the same time, Americans are watching more documentaries…
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by Patricia Aufderheide and Saif Shahin When our university renewed its commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion two years ago in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, we…
by Irene Lusztig FEMEXFILMARCHIVE was born out of lack: the lack of meaningful history of feminist filmmaking and feminist filmmakers. In the introduction to her incredible oral history of feminist…
by Laurie Sumiye As an Asian American female film professor teaching at the University of Hawai‘i-West O‘ahu, I mirror the population of our students; 89% percent of students are minorities…
by Augusta Palmer One year ago, Zoom IN published an informative post about creating an Anti-Racist Course in Film and Media. As college professors, so much of what we do…
by Shara K. Lange During the 2019/2020 academic year, I collaborated with community members and East Tennessee State University colleagues to assemble and enact a place-based network of classes, media…
by Ingrid Stobbe Throughout my time teaching I’ve developed the practice of opening classes when possible with a new joke – usually featuring a pun, for reasons we will visit…
by Lisa Danker Kritzer Protests following the recent killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, have raised greater awareness of how racism pervades all institutions and rituals of daily…
by Jennifer Proctor With widespread shelter-in-place orders and the sudden shift online, our lives as faculty teaching media have been altered radically. We and our students have new and unexpected…
By Frederick W. Gooding The 2020 Academy Awards feature merely one single nomination of a Black actor. Hmmm. This year’s slate of Oscar nominations simply read like the eight or…
