Film Studies

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Leading news, information, and networking site for independent-minded filmmakers, the industry, and moviegoers alike since 1996.

Provides online access to the histories of cinema, broadcasting, and recorded sound by digitizing collections of classic media periodicals that belong in the public domain for full public access.

Open archive for media, film, and communication scholars to upload their working papers, pre-prints, accepted manuscripts, and published manuscripts.

Stay up-to-date on the latest movie news.

Website devoted to the history of film, television, and digital media. It features original articles by leading critics, authors, and scholars; a calendar that highlights major retrospectives, festivals, and gallery exhibitions at venues around the world; and a regularly updated guide to online research resources.

Continuing the legacy of one of the most famous American film critic, this site highlights reviews by leading critics, as well as interviews and essays on cinematic controversies.

Peer-reviewed, online publication bringing together scholarship in the field of cinema and media studies since 1975.

Its areas of interest range from the technical and entrepreneurial innovations of the early and pre-cinema experiments, through all aspects of the production, distribution, exhibition, and reception of commercial and non-commercial motion pictures.

Publishes in-depth articles, reviews, and interviews on all aspects of cinema, media, and society—from film classics to emergent technologies.

Biannual, peer-reviewed, open access journal which aims to provide a space for trailblazing research by scholars of film, media and screen studies.
Last issue published July 2023

Explores the history of audio-visual mass media and considers its impact on political and cultural history.

Peer-reviewed, scholarly publication of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS).committed to the aesthetic, political, and cultural interpretation of film, television, digital media, and other audiovisual technologies, and their production, circulation, and reception.

Articles and reviews in the fields of film and video production, history, theory, criticism, and aesthetics.

Focuses upon problems of adapting and transforming fiction and drama into film. It has also covered film genre, theory, and criticism and has featured interviews with screenwriters and directors.

A refereed open access publication aimed at creating a forum for the range of analysis, debate and discussion that only a journal devoted to a detailed film criticism can adequately provide, and committed to publishing rigorous but accessible critical writing and videographic criticism that is responsive to the detailed texture and artistry of film and television, old and new.

Online journal primarily concerned with ideas about particular films or bodies of work, but also with the regimes (ideological, economic and so forth) under which films are produced and viewed, and with the more abstract theoretical and philosophical issues raised by film study.

World’s premiere source of information about the global cinema industry

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 magazine of film culture past and present, with new articles, interviews, and videos published every day

Quarterly magazine published by the Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), covering the art, craft and business of independent film.

Leading source of information for independent, grassroots, and activist media-makers, providing inspiration and information for their films and video projects, as well as creating connections to the larger independent media community.

Leading resource on the art and business of making movies, empowering moviemakers, engaging film lovers, informing and entertaining.

Digital publication of the Museum of the Moving Image

Online news articles, reviews, features, interviews, videos, and polls from the internationally renowned film magazine published by the British Film institute (BFI).

Daily column devoted to goings on in film culture.

Weekly space for critical conversations about film, with a look at topical issues, new releases, and the big picture.

The author's mission is to help filmmakers get their films funded, shot and seen. He also wants to try to understand how the industry functions and, whenever possible, why. This site is a document of his journey as he uses data to work out what’s going on.

The New Yorker contributor Richard Brody offers notes on blockbuster movies, independent films, and documentaries.

Highly informative blog maintained by two of the most respected film scholars, David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson.

A weekly film podcast featuring discussions of new films, old films, double features, cult movies, filmmakers and movie lists among a smorgasbord of other cinema-related things.

Glenn Kenny’s blog features his in-depth ruminations on films, filmmakers, DVD releases, and other cinema-related matters.

A blog about style and practice in cinema and media. The author writes, teaches, and speaks about all matters related to cinema and media history, and is based in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.