The increase in lesbian representation over the past two decades has, paradoxically, coincided with queer theory’s radical transformation of the study of sexuality. In Lesbian Cinema after Queer Theory, Clara Bradbury-Rance argues that ...

Across her body of work in film, television, and digital media, Desiree Akhavan has captured the awkward politics of cultural production for female filmmakers and media-makers. Yet she has also refused to straightforwardly align her work …

As a story of painting – an artist falling in love with the subject of her portrait – Portrait de la jeune fille en feu/Portrait of a Lady on Fire is a film about representation itself, about the intensified spectatorship that comes with a sustained diegetic attention ...

Queen of Glory begins with a montage. Cross-cut with close-ups of brightly patterned fabrics and a soundtrack of echoing voices and pulsing percussion, Sarah Obeng (Nana Mensah) packs a suitcase and boards a train. Her destination ...

In the face of this paradox, it can feel like a risk either to wax lyrical about our love of teaching—lest we concede to the structures that make us do too much of it—or, god forbid, admit that sometimes it is not just too much but too hard. But the feminist project has been vital both to ...

The favourite cinema of my teenage years was a two-screen, shoebox theatre. Two or three times a week I’d go there, often getting through everything on the programme; I still have my ticket stubs. Four o’clock on a weekday was my favourite slot, a period of lull ...