In memoriam
In Memoriam for Chantal Akerman
Special Feature: Using Short Media in the Classroom
Edited by Audrey Lundahl
A Little Goes a Long Way: Using Short Films in the Classroom
Challenging Singular Narratives: Teaching Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Work in the Classroom
Muslim Women, Activism, and Embodiment of Religiosity – A Pedagogical Reflection
Antiracist Pedagogical Strategies for Disrupting Gendered Islamophobia
Princess Brides
Women, Sports, and the Short Films that Bridge the Learning Gap in Understanding their Dynamic Involvement and Evolution in Society
Lesson Plans
Accented Cinema, Daughter-Texts, Decolonial Feminist Representation: Teaching Mona Hatoum’s Measures of Distance
Women Filmmakers and Representations of Sexual Desire
The Trials of Spring: Women on the Frontlines of the Arab Spring
Reviews
Films
Reviewers
Sins Invalid: An Unashamed Claim to Beauty
dir. Patricia Berne and Nomy Lamm, 2013
Body and Soul: Diana and Kathy
dir. Alice Elliott, 2007
Service: When Women Come Marching Home
dir. Marcia Rock and Patricia Lee Stotter, 2012
reviewed by Lydia X. Z. Brown
Absolutely Safe
dir. Carol Ciancutti-Leyva, 2008
Pink Ribbons, Inc.
dir. Léa Pool, 2011
reviewed by Chad Hammond
Ebony Goddess: Queen of Ilê Aiyê
dir. Carolina Moraes-Liu, 2010
Lady Kul el-Arab
dir. Ibtisam Mara’ana, 2008
The World Before Her
dir. Nisha Pahuja, 2011
reviewed by Mignonette Chiu
Pushing the Elephant
dir. Beth Davenport and Elizabeth Mandel, 2010
Fighting the Silence
dir. Ilse van Velzen and Femke van Velzen, 2007
Weapon of War
dir. Ilse van Velzen and Femke van Velzen, 2009
reviewed by Ngwarsungu Chiwengo
Little Immigrants
dir. Sonia Fritz and Frances Lausell, 2008
Harvest of Loneliness: The Bracero Program
dir. Gilbert G. Gonzalez, Vivian Price, and Adrian Salinas, 2010
AbUSed: The Postville Raid
dir. Luis Argueta, 2010
reviewed by Luis L. M. Aguiar
The Middle of Everywhere: The Abortion Debate from America’s Heartland
dir. Rebecca Lee and Jesper Malmberg, 2008
Silent Choices
dir. Faith Pennick, 2007
Motherland Afghanistan
dir. Sedika Mojadidi, 2006
reviewed by Sawsan Abdulrahim
Black Nations/Queer Nations?
dir. Shari Frilot, 1995
Marriage Equality: Byron Rushing and the Fight for Fairness
dir. Thomas Allen Harris, 2011
M.I., A Different Kind of Girl
dir. Leslie Cunningham, 2012
reviewed by Stefanie K. Dunning
Women on the Land
dir. Laurie York, 2012
Lavender Hill: A Love Story
dir. Austin Bunn, 2013
Out Here
dir. Jonah Mossberg, 2013
reviewed by Clark A. Pomerleau