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