Farrah Freibert

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I research and teach in film and media studies, industry history, media law and politics, LGBTQ+ cultural history, and gender and sexuality studies. Ph.D. in Visual Studies from University of California, Irvine.

Mostly on Bluesky these days: @finleyfreibert.bsky.social

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GRAD STUDENT GRANT OPPORTUNITY for MFA students, PhD candidates, & graduate students who work in LGBTQ+ studies & arts. The G&LR‘s Writer’s and Artist’s Grant (Up to $7,500) is now accepting applications, with a deadline of February 2, 2024. Please share widely. #transstudies #queerstudies https://glreview.org/the-gay-lesbian-review-writers-and-artists-grant/
The G&LR‘s Writer’s and Artist’s Grant

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The Gay & Lesbian Review

Happy to share my new article on the stardom of Judy Coleman (aka Judy Angel) who was involved in various sectors of Los Angeles independent cinema and live theater. Her work with gay filmmaker Pat Rocco was especially legendary. The article unearths various aspects of her life including her correct birth date.

Here's a link to the article with first 50 downloads for free: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VA4CH6CJIUZCH3MDJ6IS/full?target=10.1080/23268743.2023.2225508

Here's my post about it elsewhere: https://twitter.com/FinleyFrei.../status/1683482248639553536

#bisexualstudies #bisexualhistory #queerfilm #filmstudies #filmhistory #queerhistory #pornstudies #patrocco

#CFP Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture has an interesting new CFP on a series of trans and queer sound studies work. It is a rolling series with no deadline listed:

See the call at the UC Press website:
https://online.ucpress.edu/DocumentLibrary/RES/CFPs/Resonance-%20queer%20sound_FINAL.pdf

#queerstudies #soundstudies #transstudies #mediastudies #LGBTQ+studies #sonicart #CFPalert

When we teach architecture & film, where are the women? Ekin Pinar asks a good question and nominates Kent's THE BABADOOK and Amirpour's A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT as candidates for the classroom. New essay in Open Screens @BAFTSS #horror #horrorfilms #horroracademia
https://doi.org/10.16995/OS.8012
The Place of Women’s Filmmaking in an Interdisciplinary Architecture Course

This paper explores the rich pedagogical potential of women’s filmmaking for interdisciplinary courses that explore the relations between cinema, architecture, and urbanism. While many courses on this subject tend to focus on white male filmmakers (e.g., Alfred Hitchcock, Jacques Tati, Stanley Kubrick, Fritz Lang), in constructing a new version of this elective, I aimed to extensively incorporate women’s filmmaking to the curriculum, especially opting for exemplary films that provide a rich basis to discuss the construction of gender and cinematic space in relation to one other. The course pays sustained, rigorous attention to women as filmmakers, textual subjects, and spectators while discussing topics including domesticity; borders and movement; screening space and spectatorship; cine-museology; national and transnational spaces; animated worldmaking; and digital realisms. Taking the classroom discussions on The Babadook (dir. Jennifer Kent, Australia, 2014) and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (dir. Ana Lily Amirpour, US, 2015) as its case studies, this paper considers how the use of women’s filmmaking in an interdisciplinary course allows students to explore diverse strategies of cinematic representation that deconstruct and reshape gender in connection to the cinematic fabrications of space.

Open Screens

Here's an event that may be of interest for #mediastudies #commodon #filmstudies folks:

The Media History Digital Library (https://mediahist.org/) provides free online access to books and magazines on the histories of film, broadcasting, & recorded sound.

The MHDL recently achieved several milestones, major enhancements, and surpassed 3 million digitized pages.

Please join the MHDL team for a free Zoom-based workshop on Friday Jan 13 at 17:00 GMT.

Registration: https://go.wisc.edu/tx812x

Media History Digital Library

The new Monstrum issue (Montréal Monstrum Society) has sharp thoughts on short horrors, incl. traumatizing trailers, Frankenstein muscle boys & Korean ghost marriages. Essays by @FinleyFreibert and tons more. #horror #horroracademia #monsters
https://www.monstrum-society.ca/monstrum-v5-n2-december-2022.html
MONSTRUM v5 n2 (December 2022)

Issue 5.2, December 2022  |  ISSN 2561-5629​ Short-Form Horror: History, Pedagogy, and Practice Edited by Sonia Lupher and Alanna Thain ​ ​Editor-in-Chief: Kristopher Woofter | Assistant...

MONTRÉAL MONSTRUM SOCIETY / SOCIÉTÉ MONSTRUM DE MONTRÉAL

DEADLINE EXTENSION! The CFP for Realizing Resistance III: The Expanding Universe has been extended until January 13, 2023.

The Digital Cultural Studies Co-operative invites proposals of individual papers, panels, academic posters and infographics, media objects (critical making, comics, video, Twine, or performance), and methodology or other workshops.

Join us (online) in May for the FINAL conference of our Realizing Resistance trilogy!
https://dcsco-op.org/rriii/rriii-2023/

#StarWars #CFP #DigitalHumanities #CulturalStudies #FilmStudies #MediaStudies #FanStudies

RRIII 2023

Call for Proposals Since the advent of the Disney era, the Star Wars universe has expanded rapidly, manifesting in new comics, games, and animated and live-action series. Although The Rise of Skywa…

The Digital Cultural Studies Co-Operative
Hi, I'm an assistant professor of #filmstudies at the University of Southern Mississippi. My work is based in the #EnvironmentalHumanities.

Re-#introduction: I'm currently a lecturer in WGS at Gonzaga Uni. I study #webhistory, specifically how #lgbtq folks used early digital communications. I founded and curate the Queer Digital History Project (queerdigital.com), which preserves info on #queer spaces online pre-2010.

I also have a book coming out in Aug 2023: The Two Revolutions: A History of the #Transgender Internet (https://nyupress.org/9781479818310/the-two-revolutions/).

So mostly, I share old tech stuff that amuses me.

The Two Revolutions

The internet origins of the American transgender movementThe Two Revolutions explores how the rise of the internet shaped transgender identity and activism f...

NYU Press
I am getting ready to book the trip for #scms23 and am so excited - I wonder if the hashtag will allow #scmsfolk to reconnect their old Twitter communities a bit more swiftly. The decentralized platforms - for me - made it too time consuming really to rebuild quickly. Maybe this would be a good time to #scmsconference up a storm?