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Descriptions of journals, where applicable, are excerpted from each journal's own mission statement or
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[in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies is the first academic journal of its kind. The open peer-reviewed journal encourages scholars to write using the very materials that constitute their objects of study—moving images
and sounds—and publishes work that contributes to both the knowledge of film and media studies and the videographic form.
Adaptation provides an international forum to theorize and interrogate the phenomenon of literature on screen from both a literary and film studies perspective.
Alphaville is a fully peer-reviewed online journal. It offers a dynamic international forum open to the discussion of all aspects of film and screen media history, theory and criticism through multiple research methodologies and perspectives. It cultivates
inspiring, cutting-edge research, and seeks work that displays a clear engagement with current debates and with methodological issues.
Animation Practice, Process & Production is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal presenting, analysing and exploring how animation is created and shown. Animation encompasses a huge variety of practices, many of them unacknowledged or underexplored.
This journal attempts to bring all types of animation to the fore and to present insight and analysis about the practice, process and production of such work.
Animation Studies is the Society for Animation Studies' peer-reviewed online journal. It publishes the society's conference proceedings and is open to submissions from SAS members.
Animation is increasingly pervasive and implemented in many ways in many disciplines. Animation: an interdisciplinary journal provides the first cohesive, international peer-reviewed publishing platform for animation that unites contributions from a wide
range of research agendas and creative practice.
Responses to Media and Culture
From 2012 Asian Cinema has been published by Intellect as part of our film studies journal portfolio. The journal currently publishes a variety of scholarly material – including research articles, interviews, book and film reviews and bibliographies –
on all forms and aspects of Asian cinema. The journal’s broad aim is to advance understanding and knowledge of the rich traditions of the various Asian cinemas, thereby making an invaluable contribution to the field of film studies in general.
BioScope encourages theoretical and empirical research both on located screen practices and wider networks, linkages, and patterns of circulation involving research into the historical, regional, and virtual spaces of screen cultures, including globalized
and multi-sited conditions of production and circulation.
Black Camera, a journal of Black film studies, is devoted to the study and documentation of the Black cinematic experience and aims to engender and sustain a formal academic discussion of Black film production. We include reviews of historical as well
as contemporary books and films, researched critiques of recent scholarship on Black film, interviews with accomplished film professionals, and editorials on the development of Black creative culture.
Bright Lights is one of the most widely read, quoted, and respected movie sites on the Web, mixing savvy pop reviews with in-depth analysis of current and classic, edgy and indie, international and experimental cinema - with wit and a political edge.
Camera Obscura provides a forum for scholarship and debate on feminism, culture, and media studies. The journal encourages contributions in areas such as the conjunctions of gender, race, class, and sexuality with audiovisual culture; new histories and
theories of film, television, video, and digital media; and politically engaged approaches to a range of media practices.
Canadian Journal of Film and Media Studies / Revue Canadienne d’études cinématographiques et médiatiques is Canada’s leading academic peer-reviewed film journal. We have published bi-annually since launching in 1990.
America's Leading Magazine on the Art and Politics of the Cinema
Since its founding in 1979, Discourse has been committed to publishing work in the theoretical humanities with an emphasis on the critical study of film, literature, the visual arts, and related audiovisual media. The journal seeks contributions that
explore the relations of these and other cultural phenomena to questions of language, philosophy, politics, psychoanalysis, history, and area studies, as well as theories of gender, race, and sexuality.
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.
Feminist Media Studies provides a transdisciplinary, transnational forum for researchers pursuing feminist approaches to the field of media and communication studies, with attention to the historical, philosophical, cultural, social, political, and economic
dimensions and analysis of sites including print and electronic media, film and the arts, and new media technologies.
Film & History, which is a non-profit, peer-reviewed journal affiliated with the American Historical Association and has been published continuously since 1971, is published twice each year, in the summer and the winter.
Since 1962, Film Comment has been the home of independent film journalism, publishing in-depth interviews, critical analysis, and feature coverage of mainstream, art-house, and avant-garde filmmaking from around the world. Published by Film at Lincoln
Center, Film Comment is a nonprofit publication that relies on the support of readers. Its activities supporting film culture also include The Film Comment Podcast, the Film Comment Letter, and events and talks at Film at Lincoln Center and elsewhere
Film Criticism is a peer-reviewed, online publication whose aim is to bring together scholarship in the field of cinema and media studies in order to present the finest work in this area, foregrounding textual criticism as a primary value. Our readership
is academic, although we strive to publish material that is both accessible to undergraduates and engaging to established scholars.
Film History publishes original research on the international history of cinema and related media. Our areas of interest are the production, distribution, exhibition, and reception of films designed for commercial theaters as well as the full range of
nontheatrical, noncommercial uses of motion pictures; the role of cinema as a contested and shifting cultural phenomenon; the technological, economic, political, and legal aspects of film history; the circulation of film within and across national
borders; and the relations between film and other visual media and forms of commercial entertainment.
Film International is devoted to the study of world cinemas, focusing on films within international and transnational contexts. The journal offers insights into the broader scope of cinema practices across the globe, both feature-length and otherwise,
including by way of cultural comparison. It not only encourages attention to underrepresented regions such as the Global South, small-nation and minor cinemas, but also to how aesthetic choices have been made in these contexts.
Film Matters is an exciting film magazine, celebrating the work of undergraduate film scholars. It is published three times a year, by students and for students, and each issue contains feature articles, as well as a healthy reviews section. In addition,
with an undergraduate audience in mind, Film Matters will include occasional service-oriented pieces, such as profiles of film studies departments, articles that engage the undergraduate film studies community and prepare students for graduate study
in this field, and resources and opportunities that undergraduate scholars can pursue.
Combining the best of scholarship and journalism since 1959, Film Quarterly publishes in-depth articles, reviews, and interviews on all aspects of cinema, media, and society—from film classics to emergent technologies. Film Quarterly is committed to advancing
timely and intersectional approaches to the criticism and analysis of visual culture through exploring new perspectives on issues of inclusive excellence, race, gender, sexuality, and transnationalism.
Film-Philosophy is dedicated to the engagement between film studies and philosophy, exploring the ways in which films develop and contribute to philosophical discussion. The journal also provides a forum for the thoughtful re-evaluation of key aspects
of both film studies and philosophy as academic disciplines.
Film, Fashion & Consumption is a peer-reviewed journal designed to provide an arena for the presentation of research and practice-based writing within and between the fields of film, fashion, design, history and art history. The journal aims to unite
and enlarge a community of researchers and practitioners in these fields, whilst also introducing a wider audience to new work, particularly to interdisciplinary research that looks at the intersections between film, fashion and consumption.
The Magazine of Independent Film
Flow is an online journal of television and media studies. Flow's mission is to provide a space where researchers, teachers, students, and the public can read about and discuss the changing landscape of contemporary media at the speed that media moves.
Framework explores a variety of topics in film, media, art, politics, and cultural studies. The journal publishes valuable and innovative work with a wide international range and promotes theoretical and avant-garde approaches from its contributors.
Game Studies is a non-profit, open-access, crossdisciplinary journal dedicated to games research, web-published several times a year. Our primary focus is aesthetic, cultural and communicative aspects of computer games, but any previously unpublished
article focused on games and gaming is welcome. Proposed articles should be jargon-free, and should attempt to shed new light on games, rather than simply use games as metaphor or illustration of some other theory or phenomenon.
Grey Room brings together scholarly and theoretical articles from the fields of architecture, art, media, and politics to forge a cross-disciplinary discourse uniquely relevant to contemporary concerns. Publishing some of the most interesting and original
work within these disciplines, Grey Room has positioned itself at the forefront of current aesthetic and critical debates. Featuring original articles, translations, interviews, dossiers, and academic exchanges, Grey Room emphasizes aesthetic practice
and historical and theoretical discourse that appeals to a wide range of readers, including architects, artists, scholars, students, and critics.
The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television is an international and interdisciplinary journal concerned with the history of the audio-visual mass media from c.1900 to the present. It explores the institutional and ideological contexts of film,
radio and television, analyses the evidence produced by the mass media for historians and social scientists, and considers the impact of mass communications on political, social and cultural history.
In Media Res is dedicated to experimenting with collaborative, multi-modal forms of online scholarship. Our goal is to promote an online dialogue amongst scholars and the public about contemporary approaches to studying media. In Media Res provides a
forum for more immediate critical engagement with media at a pace closer to how we experience mediated texts.
For over 25 years, IndieWire has been covering the business and art of entertainment. With the respect of film and TV creators, executives, and passionate fans alike, IndieWire is known for being ahead of the curve with a unique editorial voice that combines
in-depth industry reporting and analysis, breaking news, and its best-in-class Oscars, Emmys, and crafts coverage. IndieWire began in July 1996 as an online chat room and evolved to become one of the earliest online entertainment news outlets.
The journal of Cult Media
The International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal committed to analysing the politics of communication(s) and cultural processes. It addresses cultural politics in their local, international and global
dimensions, recognizing equally the importance of issues defined by their specific cultural geography and those that traverse cultures and nations.
InVisible Culture: A Journal for Visual Culture (IVC) is a student-run interdisciplinary journal published online twice a year in an open access format. Through double-blind peer-reviewed articles, creative works, and reviews of books, films, and
exhibitions, our issues explore changing themes in visual culture. Fostering a global and current dialogue across fields, IVC investigates the power and limits of vision.
The Journal of 20th Century Media History is a fully online, peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes original essays, research articles, and book reviews on topics related to the history of mass media in 20th Century North America. We publish articles
on journalism, broadcasting, film, publishing, strategic communications, and related subjects.
The closely associated practices of adaptation and translation have had a central place in global cultures for centuries. Focusing on theatre, film and other media, this peer-reviewed journal discusses the place of adaptation and translation within historical
and contemporary cultures.
The Journal of African Cinemas explores the interactions of visual and verbal narratives in films from and about Africa, no matter where they are made. It encourages studies about production, reception and audiences, interpretation and theory, and history
and technology. The journal recognises the shifting paradigms that have defined and continue to define African cinemas in relation to cinema everywhere, within diverse African languages and cultures.
The journal is grounded in humanities research traditions that examine cultural, historical, material, and aesthetic dimensions in ways that differ from many journals in communication studies or specialty journals, such as those in cognitive studies.
Yet it accepts articles that use a range of critical methods if they shed light on the production and study of film, video, and media.
Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies is a fully peer-reviewed, English-language journal, which explores Italian cinema and media as sites of crossing, allowing critical discussion of the work of filmmakers, artists in the film industry and media
professionals. The journal intends to revive a critical discussion on the auteurs, celebrate new directors and accented cinema and examine Italy as a geo-cultural locus for contemporary debate on translocal cinema.
The Journal of Popular Film and Television uses the methods of popular culture studies to examine commercial film and television, historical and contemporary. Articles discuss networks, genres, series, and audiences, as well as celebrity stars, directors,
and studios. Regular features include essays on the social and cultural background of films and television programs, filmographies, bibliographies, and commissioned book and video reviews.
The Journal of Religion & Film is a peer-reviewed journal that is committed to the study of connections between the medium of film and the phenomena of religion, however those are defined. We encourage multiple approaches to the study of religion
and film, including (but not limited to) the analysis of how religious traditions are portrayed in films; exploration of the religious concepts that may be found or utilized in the interpretation of films; study of how the religious ideals and background
of the filmmakers may have influenced them; and analysis of how films themselves may operate “religiously” for viewers.
Journal of Scandinavian Cinema is a double-blind peer-reviewed scholarly journal devoted to excellent research and stimulating discussion focusing on the cinemas of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, both within their national and Nordic contexts,
and as transnational cinemas in a globalized world.
The Journal of Screenwriting is an international double-blind peer-reviewed journal published three times per year. The journal highlights current academic and professional thinking about the screenplay – in all its forms and guises – and stimulates debate
about contemporary and historical screenwriting practices, as well as the teaching of screenwriting and training of screenwriters.
Journal of Visual Culture welcomes provocative, innovative analyses of visual culture especially those that challenge conventional categories or modes of inquiry. To address the broad interests of our readers, the Journal supports critically informed,
original interpretations that both illuminate a specific phenomenon, and yield insights for social, political, philosophical or aesthetic concerns shaping global visual cultures.
Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media is run on a nonprofit basis by its staff and is not affiliated with or supported by any institution. Begun in 1974 as a film publication, Jump Cut now publishes material on film, television, video, new media, and
related media and cultural analysis.
Established in 1993 at the University of Waterloo, Department of Fine Arts (Film Studies), the semi-annual Kinema publishes articles, critiques of film and media literature. It also reports on international film festivals, conferences and other important
events. The journal's aim is to promote the discussion of history, theory and aesthetics of film and audiovisual media from an international perspective. Kinema is listed in Ulrich's, Oxbridge and other major periodical directories.
Literature/Film Quarterly is the longest standing international journal devoted to the study of adaptation. Founded in 1973 by Jim Welsh and Tom Erskine, the journal has for over forty years served as a forum for scholars and writers to discuss, debate,
and articulate various ways of conceptualizing adaptation, whether in the more traditional considerations of transforming fiction and drama into film or in the more recent reflections on intertextuality, adaptation theory, and other related concerns.
A peer-reviewed, open access journal that supports critical studies of media industries, institutions, and policies worldwide.
The bi-annual Millennium Film Journal has been in print since 1978. As the longest-running publication devoted to artists’ moving image, its unique focus has garnered a committed global following including art, film and visual culture enthusiasts.
New Cinemas provides a peer-reviewed platform for scholarship that broadens and elaborates our knowledge of late-twentieth century and contemporary cinematic theory and practice. Welcoming approaches that do not take existing conceptual paradigms and
canons as given, it anticipates submissions that refresh our understanding of established bodies of work as well as those which tackle practices still in the process of development.
One of the leading media studies journals, New Review of Film and Television Studies publishes peer-reviewed research on the theory, history, aesthetics, and politics of expressive screen culture. Committed to a broad definition of film and television
studies, NRFTS welcomes articles on digital, sound, video, and web-based media. The journal particularly encourages contributions on and by media creators and scholars from underrepresented groups, and values work informed by intersectional approaches
and diverse perspectives.
Northern Lights is a peer-reviewed international publication dedicated to studies of film and media. The yearbook is a meeting place for European and global perspectives on film and media. The editors stress the importance of interdisciplinary research
and welcome contributions on both old and new media.
Offscreen has been online since 1997, along with its French language sister journal Hors Champ. Based in Montréal, Offscreen is a wide-ranging film journal that covers film festivals, retrospectives, film forums, and both popular and more academic events.
Part of our mandate is to cover the Montreal film scene, but within an international context.
Welcomes manuscripts on film as language and literature; acting; film music; film as visual art (painting and cinematic style, set design, costuming); film and photography; film history; aesthetics; the response of film and the humanities to technology;
interdisciplinary studies in theme and genre; film and American Studies; reappraisals of seminal essays; book reviews and interviews; and responses to articles appearing in POST SCRIPT.
Founded in 1990 as an experiment in scholarly publishing on the Internet, Postmodern Culture has become the leading electronic journal of interdisciplinary thought on contemporary cultures
The principal purpose of p.o.v. is to provide a framework for collaborative publication for those of us who study and teach film at the Department of Information and Media Science at Aarhus University. We will also invite contributions from colleagues
at other departments and at other universities. Our emphasis is on collaborative projects, enabling us to combine our efforts, each bringing his or her own point of view to bear on a given film or genre or theoretical problem. Consequently, the reader
will find in each issue of p.o.v. a variety of approaches to the film or question at hand - approaches which complete rather than compete with one another.
An interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal that explores the way in which the mind experiences, understands, and interprets the audio-visual and narrative structures of cinema and other visual media.
Reverse Shot is a publication of Museum of the Moving Image. The magazine was first formed in 2003 and was run independently by editors Michael Koresky and Jeff Reichert until September 2014, when they partnered with the Museum.
Screen Bodies is a peer-reviewed journal focusing on the intersection of Screen Studies and Body Studies across disciplines, institutions, and media. -
Senses of Cinema is an online journal devoted to the serious and eclectic discussion of cinema. We believe cinema is an art that can take many forms, from the industrially-produced blockbuster to the hand-crafted experimental work; we also aim to encourage
awareness of the histories of such diverse forms. As an Australian-based journal, we have a special commitment to the regular, wide-ranging analysis and critique of Australian cinema, past and present.
Short Film Studies is a peer-reviewed journal designed to encourage research by new and established scholars and critics that reflects both the historical importance and the increasing prominence and diversity of short films in today’s media landscape.
Sight and Sound is a monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute. Since 1952, it has conducted the well-known decennial Sight and Sound Poll of the Greatest Films of All Time.
Studies in South Asian Film & Media is a double-blind peer-reviewed publication committed to looking at the media and cinemas of the Indian subcontinent in their social, political, economic, historical, and increasingly globalized and diasporic contexts.
The journal will evaluate these topics in relation to class, caste, gender, race, sexuality and ideology.
This peer-reviewed journal explores the cinemas of Spain and Spanish-speaking South, Central and North America, including the Caribbean and Brazil. Maximizing the opportunities for contact between academic disciplines such as media, film studies, Latin
American, Hispanic and postcolonial studies, the journal encourages an inter-cultural and interdisciplinary focus.
Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies is a double-blind peer-review, open access journal that is fully run by graduate students and is housed in the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University (Montréal, Canada). Since
2004, the journal has promoted innovative research in film and media studies, combining a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches.
A host site for the JCMS Teaching Dossier, an online journal about media pedagogy.
Tecmerin publishes the biannual, peer-reviewed journal Tecmerin. Journal of Audiovisual Essays, which features research and audiovisual creation with a focus on Spanish and Latin American cultural production. They also collaborate on the Screen Stars
Dictionary, a project defining characteristics of stars through a single word, promoting intercultural exchange.
Television & New Media (TVNM), explores the fields of television and new media studies as they focus on the historical, ethnographic, political-economic, technological, and textual dimensions of media in social contexts.
The Moving Image explores topics relevant to both the media archivist and the media scholar. The Moving Image deals with crucial issues surrounding the preservation, archiving, and restoration of film, video, and digital moving images. The journal features
detailed profiles of moving image collections; interpretive and historical essays about archival materials; articles on archival description, appraisal, and access; behind-the-scenes looks at the techniques used to preserve, restore, and digitize
moving images; and theoretical articles on the future of the field.
The Soundtrack is a multi-disciplinary, double-blind peer-reviewed journal that brings together research in the area of music and sound in relation to film and other moving image media, including television, games and installations. A complex cultural,
technological, industrial and artistic phenomenon, sound-with-moving image is a rich area for analysis, investigation and speculation.
The Velvet Light Trap is a journal devoted to investigating historical questions that illuminate the understanding of film and other media. While VLT maintains its traditional commitment to the study of American film, it also expands its scope to television
and other media, to adjacent institutions, and to other nations' media.
Wide Angle presents some of today's foremost scholarship in film studies and examines a variety of topics ranging from international cinema to the history and aesthetics of film.
