| Wide Angle   |
A film quarterly of theory, criticism, and practice. Wide Angle examines a variety of topics ranging from international cinema to the history and aesthetics of film. |
621 |
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| Southwestern Mass Communication Journal |
Mass communication, media effects; media history, media law and First Amendment; radio, television, newspapers, magazines; journalism, photojournalism, public relations, advertising. |
532 |
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| Cinema Journal |
Academic journal published in cooperation with the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Available online through Project Muse (issues since 1999 only). |
483 |
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| Film & History |
An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies. Film & History is concerned with the impact of motion pictures on our society. Film & History focuses on how feature films and documentary films both represent and interpret history. |
452 |
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| Acidemic Journal of Film & Media |
Discovering the Cult films of tomorrow now. Merging vague satire with literary ambition and intellectual savvy to analyze contemporary and classic cinema like the lines in our collective palm. |
440 |
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| Film Criticism |
Published continuously since 1976, a scholarly journal of film theory, history, and criticism, including interviews, festival reports, and book reviews. Recent special issues on Douglas Sirk, contemporary French cinema, and recent American film. |
433 |
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| Cinema Scope |
New site has been launched. Several articles from the hardcopy edition are available online. Highly recommended. |
395 |
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| Bright Lights Film Journal |
Glossy, 8-1/2 x 11 popular-academic hybrid of movie analysis, history, and commentary, looking at classic and commercial, independent, exploitation, and international film from a wide range of vantage points from the aesthetic to the political. A prime area of focus is on the connection between capitalist society and the images that reflect, support, or subvert it--movies as propaganda. |
393 |
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| Scope: An On-Line Journal of Film Studies |
A refereed, online journal published by the Institute of Film Studies, University of Nottingham, UK. They encourage the submission of articles, film reviews, book reviews, review essays, and reports that engage with the cutting-edge debates in film, media and cultural studies. |
389 |
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| The Film Journal |
Quarterly online film journal with essays, interviews, and reviews. Issue 11 is now up. |
373 |
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| Journal of Popular Film and Television |
Dedicated to popular film and television in the broadest sense. Concentration is upon commercial cinema and television: stars, directors, producers, studios, networks, genres, series, the audience, etc. |
371 |
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| Communication and Critical/Cultural Theory |
Critical reflection on democratic culture with attention to subjects such as, but not limited to, class, race, ethnicity, gender, ability, sexuality, polity, public sphere, nation, environment, and globalization. |
354 |
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| Screen |
From pop videos to art films, film noir to third world cinema, Screen keeps pace with the changing world of film. Each issue offers the latest developments in film, television, and cultural theory plus conference reports, and book reviews. |
352 |
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| Critical Studies in Television (journal) |
An international, refereed online and hard copy journal focusing on fictions made for the small screen. It takes current and past television seriously and aims to encourage the academic and broader intellectual communities to recognize the value of the critical study of small screen fictions in the broadest sense. |
343 |
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| Animation Journal |
Only peer-reviewed scholarly journal devoted to animation history and theory. Its content reflects the diversity of animation's production techniques and national origins. |
342 |
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| Film Quarterly |
Offers articles covering the entire field of film studies. Articles include interviews with innovative directors, producers, actors, and writers; discussion of issues in contemporary film theory; definitive, reviews of the latest cinema and video releases; and important approaches to film history. |
340 |
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| The Velvet Light Trap |
Offers critical essays on significant issues in film studies while expanding its commitment to television as well as film research. Each issue provokes debate about critical, theoretical, and historical topics relating to a particular theme. |
335 |
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| Post Script |
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. |
315 |
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| Cineaste |
The art and politics of cinema. |
313 |
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| Popular Communication |
All aspects of popular communication and mediated popular culture texts, artifacts, audiences, events and practices. Encourages diverse methodological, theoretical and disciplinary perspectives particularly those from a cultural context. |
311 |
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| 16:9 |
A Danish online journal of film studies that is published five times pro anno. The essays, articles, interviews and reviews are primarily in Danish but each issue features an article in English written by a film scholar. |
309 |
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| Actuacine |
French journal focusing on films released in France. This links to the France Cinema Multimedia page where Actuacine and Grand Ecran--another French magazine with film reviews--are kept. |
299 |
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| Senses of Cinema |
An online film journal devoted to the serious and eclectic discussion of cinema. Senses of Cinema promotes various divergent voices that speak to a wide and diverse audience. It aims to bring together a mix of writers: established and emerging, theorists and un-published cinephiles, filmmakers and film programmers, and local and international writers. We are particularly committed to discussing art, independent, experimental and third world cinemas, theorising new encounters with digital technologies, and promoting writing that increases one’s understanding and appreciation of cinema. |
296 |
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| Journal of Popular Film and Television |
Commercial film and television from sociocultural perspective. Articles on stars, directors, producers, studios, networks, genres, series, audience and films in popular culture context. Essays on social and cultural realities of film and television; filmographies, bibliographies. |
294 |
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| Visual Communication Quarterly |
Visual communication, including photojournalism, visual social science, design, culture, ethics, history, aesthetics, representation, and technology; qualitative and quantitative research methods and creative work; cultural, critical, traditional and interdisciplinary theoretical approaches. |
291 |
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| Alfred hitchcock movies |
The Alfred Hitchcock Movies site gives information and critical comments on alfred hitchcock movies. |
289 |
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| Film and Philosophy |
Volume 9 - Philosophy and Science Fiction coming soon. Volume 8 Special Interest Edition on Ethical and Existential Themes in Cinema is up. |
288 |
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| Theory, Culture & Society |
Explorations in critical social science and humanities. |
287 |
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| Journal of Film and Video |
Academic journal published in cooperation with the University Film and Video Association. |
282 |
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| basilisk |
Quarterly journal of film, architecture, philosophy, literature, music, and perception. |
278 |
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| Journal of e-Media Studies |
A blind peer-reviewed, on-line journal dedicated to the scholarly study of the history and theory of electronic media, especially television and new media. It is an inter-disciplinary journal -- welcoming submissions across the fields and methodologies that study media and media history. |
275 |
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| Journal of Popular Culture |
Breaks down the barriers between so-called low and high culture and focuses on filling in the gaps a neglect of popular culture has left in our understanding of the workings of society. |
275 |
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| cinetext - film and philosophy |
cinetext is a bilingual internet forum for film and philosophy located at the University of Vienna (Austria) addressing students, researchers, scholars, and anyone with an interest in the thoughtful exploration of cinema, film, and television. |
273 |
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| Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies |
New media technologies including computer games and the games industry, cable and telecommunications, digital photography, virtual reality (VR), control and censorship of the media, copyright, media policy, new media products, interactive TV, CD-ROM, the Internet, gender and technology; interdisciplinary. |
269 |
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| New Review of Film and Television Studies |
New Review of Film and Television Studies promotes current research making a central contribution to film and television studies. Rather than endorse a particular doctrine or fixed agenda, the journal publishes research dedicated to clearly formulated, reliable methods of analysis, well posed questions examining resolvable problems, and focused deliberation on those problems. The journal is driven by the belief that intellectually rigorous research in the humanities is both possible and necessary. In-depth stand-alone essays or extracts from major research projects in progress are particularly welcome. |
267 |
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| American Communication Journal |
The broad theoretical and methodological spectrum of the communication discipline. |
265 |
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| Sight and Sound |
Online version of this BFI magazine, has several articles from each hard copy issue. Also includes a fully browse-able archive of their online articles. |
263 |
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| Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television |
Historical research. |
261 |
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| Kinema |
A Journal of History, Theory and Aesthetics of Film and Audiovisual Media. Published at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. |
261 |
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| Critical Quarterly |
A journal of literary criticism, cultural studies, poetry and fiction, edited by Colin MacCabe. |
255 |
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| Images: A Journal of Film and Popular Culture |
Online mag that is pretty stunning graphically, as well as providing some good content. Current postings: examination of 30 great westerns, reviews of recent films and plenty more in its archive section. |
254 |
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| Cahiers du cinéma |
Has a pdf of the current contents page, including subscription details. |
253 |
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| Feminist Media Studies |
Feminist approaches to media and communication studies with attention to print, electronic media, film, the arts and new media technologies. |
252 |
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| Film International |
Bimonthly journal Film International founded in Sweden 1973 as Filmhäftet. They say, “We aim not to be just a scholarly journal, but a new breed of film magazine, mixing established academic film scholars (and other scholars) with renowned film journalists, trying to reach a wider circle of readers. The main focus is on longer essays with in-depth-analysis and interviews. However, there is also an extensive review section on books, DVDs and films at the cinema”. Recommended. |
252 |
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| Quarterly Review of Film and Video |
Submission information. |
252 |
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| Critical Inquiry |
Interdisciplinary journal that brings its readers current criticism on a variety of topics within literature, art, architecture, film, history, philosophy, and music. |
251 |
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| Jump Cut |
A review of contemporary media. |
251 |
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| Vertigo: Independent Film Magazine |
A bi-annual British film magazine. Impressive range of contributors and subject-matter. Articles are not available online but their website includes the contents of each issue including subscription and mailing list pages. New site coming soon. |
251 |
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| Continuum |
The Australian Journal of Media and Culture. Several issues available online. |
249 |
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| Framework |
An international journal dedicated to plural approaches to film and media. |
249 |
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