Coverage of hundreds of the world's foremost academic and popular film & TV journals
JSTOR
A humanities and social science journal archive that has strong coverage in literary studies. Just note that it is an archive and does not contain content from the last 3-5 years
Journals database of scholarly titles in the humanities and social sciences, covering literary studies.
Film, radio and telavision journal rankings from Web of Science Journal Citation Reports.
Screen is the leading international journal of academic film and television studies.
Film Quarterly has published peer-reviewed writing on cinema and media for over sixty years, earning a reputation as one of the most authoritative academic film journals.
Journal of Cinema and Media Studies
JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies is the peer-reviewed, scholarly publication of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS).
Television & New Media explores these fields as they focus on the historical, ethnographic, political-economic, technological, and textual dimensions of media in social contexts.
Critical Studies in Television
Publishes articles that draw together divergent disciplines and different ways of thinking on any aspect of television—production studies and institutional histories, audience and reception studies, or theoretical approaches
BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies
Peer-reviewed journal publishing on South Asian screen practices and wider networks, and the historical, regional, and virtual spaces of screen cultures, including globalized and multi-sited conditions.
Journal of British Cinema and Television
The Journal of British Cinema and Television is the prime site for anyone interested in reading or publishing original work in the fields of British cinema and television.
Publishes research aiming to break down traditional geographical divisions on any aspect of transnational film, TV, streaming culture and screen media practices
Eastern European Screen Studies
Eastern European Screen Studies covers screen cultures of Albania, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine, just as well as cinemas of Czechoslovakia, East Germany and Yugoslavia as now non-existent states with historic cinematic tradition.
Studies in Australasian Cinema
Studies in Australasian Cinema is a scholarly journal devoted to the screen cultures of, and film scholarship from, the Australian, New Zealand, and Pacific region. The journal features academic articles focusing on current and historical trends, representations, themes, styles, debates and scholarly work from across the region's rich cinema culture.
Asian Cinema is a peer-reviewed journal, publishing a 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.
Peer reviewed journal on French and francophone cinema, exploring the cultural and technical aspects of French cinema from a range of perspectives.
Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies
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.
Refereed academic journal devoted to the study of film and media as practiced in Chinese-speaking communities. coverage includes, but is not limited to, commercial releases, independent films, videos, video art, animation, new media, exhibition conditions, and texts and debates.
Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas
Peer-reviewed journal exploring 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.
Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema
Publishes research on pre-revolutionary, Soviet and post- Soviet film, its aesthetic development, and its position between ideology and industry
Jewish Film & New Media publishes research into any aspect of Jewish film, television, and new media and is unique in its interdisciplinary nature, exploring the rich and diverse cultural heritage across the globe.
Black Camera is devoted to the study and documentation of the black cinematic experience. It regularly features essays and interviews that engage film in social as well as political distribution, and production of film in local, regional, national, and transnational settings and environments.
Leading magazine on the art and politics of the cinema
BFI magazine publishes reviews and surveys of contenporary film.
Film Criticism is a peer-reviewed, online publication whose aim is to bring together scholarship in the field of cinema and media studies, foregrounding textual criticism as a primary value.
Pre-eminent magazine of the visual effects industry, charting major technologies and productions from 1980 to 2021. No longer published but the arcives are available through the Internet Archive.
International Cinematographers Guild magazine from the organization representing Directors of Photography, Camera Operators and Assistants, Computer Graphics Specialists, Visual Effects Supervisors, etc.
Magazine of the Society of Camera Operators
Magazine of the Art Directors Guild
Magazine of the Visual Effects Society
The international publication of the American Society of Cinematographers
Televisual is the leading UK magazine for the UK production community and is read by the majority of those directly responsible for creating television, film, commercials and corporate video.
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