DEIB Resources
What is DEIB?
DEIB stands for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging. By focusing on DEIB, FMS strives to ensure that every person at KU has equal opportunity to pursue their goals and feels valued in our community.
DEIB Policies and Toolkits
Edit Media, University Film & Video Association
“Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Teaching Media is a faculty-driven initiative dedicated to researching, developing, and educating about best practices in inclusive teaching in college-level media production.”
The Diversity Toolkit, Future Film Education
“[The Diversity in Film and Media toolkit] helps educators and students to navigate between various theories and practices. Narratives, audiovisual representations, films and digital media strongly affect our understanding and interpretation of the social world.”
DEI Resources for Teaching about Digital Culture, American University
“This set of resources is designed to help teachers … select from the wealth of materials produced by diverse thought leaders about challenges in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in our digital media and culture.”
DEIB Film Databases
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Collection, Kanopy
Black Film Archive
“Black Film Archive celebrates the rich, abundant history of Black cinema. We are an evolving archive dedicated to making historically and culturally significant films made from 1898 to 1999 about Black people accessible through a streaming guide with cultural context.”
ARRAY Releasing
“[This database] is dedicated to distributing and exhibiting independent films made by Black artists, people of color and women of all kinds.”
Latinx Representation in Film, Library of Congress
Library of Congress - “The Latinx Representation in Film Research Guide highlights narrative feature-length films, short films, documentaries, books, posters, interviews, and external websites, all carefully selected to increase understanding and access to moving images representing Latinos.”
Cinegogía
“Cinegogía is an open-access website devoted to the teaching and study of Latin American cinemas. This collaborative project is comprised of syllabi, film guides, course materials, a film database and links to other resources.”
Indigenous Cinema, National Film Board of Canada
Indigenous Studies, Docuseek
“Films from the Docuseek2 collection that cover the history, culture, and contemporary experience of indigenous people around the world. Films range from reports of initial contact between Europeans and Africans and South Americans to contemporary challenges of First Nations people to maintain their identity, spirituality and territorial claims.”
LBGT Studies in Video, Alexander Street
“[This volume] is a cinematic survey of the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people as well as the cultural and political evolution of the LGBT community. … This first-of-its-kind collection features award-winning documentaries, interviews, archival footage, and select feature films exploring LGBT history, gay culture and subcultures, civil rights … and other topics.”
Asian American Documentary Network
“This is a database of documentaries about Asian American topics, produced by Asian Americans. This resource is geared toward educators looking to screen a film in their classroom, student or community organizations looking to host a screening.”
The Women Film Pioneers Project
“WFPP is a digital publication and resource that advances research on the hundreds of women who worked behind the scenes during the silent film era.”
Great Women Animators
“This database is dedicated to sharing the contributions and profiles of female animators from the 1900s-present. Knowingly always in-process, the database is updated on a semi-regular basis and intends to educate, disseminate and champion the work of an international group of women animators from the last century. ... Great Women Animators is trans-inclusive and includes women, trans and gender non-conforming animators.”
DEIB Reading Resources
- Benshoff, Harry and Sean Griffin. America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality at the Movies. Wiley Blackwell, 2021.
- Queer Cinema and Visual Culture, Readings and Films, OpenCourseWare
- Potter, Susan. Queer Timing: The Emergence of Lesbian Sexuality in Early Cinema. 2019
Racial and Ethnic Representation in Film, Dartmouth Study Guides
- Feminist Film Theory: An Introductory Reading List
- Feminist Film Theory, Dartmouth Study Guide
- Holt, Nathalia. The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History. 2019.
- Gledhill, Christine. Doing Women’s Film History: Reframing Cinemas, Past and Future. 2015.
- Gaines, Jane. Pink Slipped: What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries?. 2018.
- Women’s Media History Now!
- Warren, Shilyh. Subject to Reality: Women and Documentary Film. 2019.
- Williams, Tami. Germaine Dulac: A Cinema of Sensations. 2014.
- Rabinowicz, Lauren. Points of Resistance: Women, Power, and Politics in the New York Avant-Garde, 1943-1971.
- New Korean Cinema
- Taiwanese New Cinema
- Cinema of Hong Kong
- Cinema of PRC
- Japanese Cinema
- Latin American Cinema
- Spanish Cinema
- African Cinema
- Indian Cinema
- Diasporan Cinemas