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Still from She's a Boy I Knew (Gwen Haworth, 2007). Photo by Tif Flowers. |
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Films for the Feminist Classroom (FFC) is hosted by the Rutgers-based editorial offices of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society and the Rutgers Women's and Gender Studies Department. FFC, an online, open-access journal, publishes film reviews that provide a critical assessment of the value of films as pedagogical tools in the feminist classroom. Special features, such as interviews with filmmakers, are included to further promote engagement and discussion. FFC endeavors to serve as a dynamic resource for teachers and librarians and to enhance feminist curricula, bringing film into the classroom via thought-provoking, relevant, and engaging reviews.
Issue 4.1 Films for the Feminist Classroom Issue 4.1 is here! The Spring-Summer 2012 issue of Films for the Feminist Classroom zooms in on pedagogy. We are proud to feature in this issue Film, Pedagogy, and Film Pedagogy edited and introduced by Agatha Beins. Learn from scholars and activists about using films more effectively, creatively, and purposefully in the classroom. Each contributor to the feature has shared not only an informative essay but a lesson plan as well. Films for the Feminist Classroom includes festival coverage in the current issue and hopes to continue doing so in forthcoming issues. We welcome your suggestions of regional and international film festivals to report on as well as your proposals to write up these festivals: ffc@signs.rutgers.edu. Let's keep bringing pivotal films into the feminist classroom! Films reviewed in Issue 4.1 include Miss Representation with student responses, Women of Turkey: Between Islam and Secularism, Alice Neel, Look Us in The Eye: The Old Women's Project, Made in India: A Film about Surrogacy, and A Crushing Love: Chicanas, Motherhood and Activism.
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In prior issues of Films for the Feminist Classroom: Issue 3.2 centers on Women's Voices from the Muslim World Festival: Filmmakers Share their Stories, edited and introduced by Julie Ann Salthouse. And, for the first time, Films for the Feminist Classroom contributors report from regional film festivals. Film reviews include !Women Art Revolution, My American Girls: A Dominican Story, and Cowboys in Paradise. Issue 3.1 highlights filmmaker and activist Carol Jacobsen. In an interview with Films for the Feminist Classroom Founding Editor Deanna Utroske, Jacobsen discusses her "creative politics" in films on women incarcerated in the United States. This issue's film reviews consider Living With Pride: Ruth Ellis @ 100; Judy Chicago and the California Girls; and Michael Kimmel: On Gender. Issue 2.2 opens with a special feature, Explicit Educations: The Pedagogical Ethics of Utilizing Sexually Explicit Films in the Feminist Classroom, edited and introduced by Jillian Hernandez. Films reviewed in this issue include, Searching for Angela Shelton, Good Food, and The Noble Struggle of Amina Wadud. Issue 2.s showcases Deanna Utroske’s interview with lesbian feminist filmmaker Barbara Hammer and includes essays by creative professionals whose work has intersected with Hammer’s. Issue 2.1 features Alexandra Juhasz’s interactive exploration of a lesbian aesthetic and reviews of films such as She Rhymes Like a Girl; License to Thrive: Title IX at 35; and Poto Mitan: Haitian Women, Pillars of the Global Economy. Issue 1.2 presents an interview with Abigail Disney, producer of Pray the Devil Back to Hell, which features Nobel Prize-winner Leymah Gbowee and is part of PBS's Women, War & Peace series. Reviews include The Price of Pleasure: Pornography, Sexuality & Relationships; Fat Rant; and Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood. Issue 1.1 includes Dena Seidel’s interview with Jennie Livingston, the director of Paris is Burning, as well as reviews of No! The Rape Documentary; The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo; and The Breast Cancer Diaries.
We welcome your comments at ffc@signs.rutgers.edu.
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