Cinema Studies Library Guide: Film Journals

The journal features unique, high-quality coverage of digital media, film, games, photography, television, video, and visual arts, as well as addresses important issues and debates within art history, media studies, visual and cultural studies, and related fields. In addition to in-depth feature articles, the journal publishes book and exhibition reviews as well as conference and festival reports.

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.

CineAction was conceived as a political forum that included challenging the then contemporary theoretical notion that ideology was monolithic and, as such, put into question the possibility of political change. CineAction was meant to be wide ranging in its content, embracing the medium in all its manifestations, whether it be the Hollywood cinema, the art film, the documentary film or other cinematic formats.

America's leading magazine on the art and politics of the cinema.

Regrouper les organisations du cinéma non commercial du Québec dans le but de promouvoir auprès des Québécois la culture cinématographique et de développer une activité de loisir cinématographique diversifiée et de qualité.

Cinema Journal publishes essays on a wide variety of subjects from (using) diverse methodological perspectives. A "Professional Notes" section informs Society for Cinema and Media Studies members about upcoming events, research opportunities, and the latest published research.

Cinema Scope unites experienced critics from across North America with up-and-coming writers. Packed with reviews, essays, festival reports, and interviews, we're geared to cinephiles looking for an intelligent forum on world cinema. "Advocates for a passionate, political and purist engagement with the movies".

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. 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.

Best known for exploring the avant-garde cinema in depth, it also published articles on other aspects of cinema, including Hollywood films.

A digest-sized publication with lots of photographs and reader friendly articles.

Films of the Golden Age, "The Magazine for Film Lovers" has been published quarterly since 1995. No other publication goes so deeply into film history, covering the entire spectrum, from the great starts and the great films to the bit players and the B movies.

The Journal of British Cinema and Television is indispensable for anyone seriously interested in British cinema and television. Themed issues alternate with general issues, and each issue contains a wide range of articles that encourage debate.

Today the Journal of Popular Film and Television remains the leading scholarly publication for sociocultural analyses of films and television programming. The first allegiance of this genre of criticism is to the cultural context and not the media. As basic as this premise is, it powerfully asserts that film and television are cultural products and forms of social knowledge. They are never neutral technologies, but are only meaningful within their relationships to broader contexts, institutions, and discourses.

24 images presents a critical look at what animates and transforms filmmaking around the world, paying particular attention to Quebec cinematography. This journal aims toward reflection and publishes special reports, in depth articles, columns, reviews, round tables and interviews with local and international filmmakers.

Literature/Film Quarterly is the longest standing international journal devoted to the study of adaptation.

Magill's Cinema Annual offers an in-depth retrospective of significant domestic and foreign films released in the U.S. Distinguishing features include its extensive credits, awards and nominations, MPAA ratings, eight indexes, and most importantly its exhaustive critical reviews with author bylines.

Independent, student, grassroots, underground film focus - independent press for independent cinema

Up-to-date Hollywood film focus with in-depth coverage of films, actors, directors and everything having to do with current cinema.

Early and silent film focus.

Post Script: Essays in the Humanities, an interdisciplinary journal, was published continuously from 1981 until 2021 and produced three issues annually: Spring, Summer, and Fall.

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Sight & Sound is the British Film Institute's international film magazine, offering unrivalled insight into film culture with in-depth reviews, interviews and features exploring contemporary and historical cinema in all its variety.

Produced by The Division of Cinema & Media Studies, Spectator is the school's premier journal for film and television criticism. This internationally distinguished journal, which is published twice annually, carries insightful articles and research findings by Cinema & Media Studies students on a broad range of topics.

Transnational Screens has emerged in response to a shift in global film, television and streaming and how we understand dynamic new industrial and textual practices. Transnational Screens aims to break down traditional geographical divisions and welcomes submissions on any aspect of transnational film, television, streaming culture, and screen media practices.

The Velvet Light Trap is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal of film, television, and new media. The journal draws on a variety of theoretical and historiographical approaches from the humanities and social sciences and welcomes any effort that will help foster the ongoing processes of evaluation and negotiation in media history and criticism. 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. Each issue concentrates on a single topic and offers extensively illustrated articles, interviews with prominent filmmakers, and reviews of recent books in the field.