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- Oxford Bibliographies Online: Cinema & Media StudiesThis database offers brief encyclopedic entries with extensive lists of peer-reviewed books, articles, and websites on many important topics in the field.
Journals Related to AFANA
- Film History Film History publishes original research on the international history of cinema, broadly and inclusively understood. Its 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 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.
- Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television 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.
- JCMS: 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). JCMS's basic mission is to foster engaged debate and rigorous thinking among humanities scholars of film, television, digital media, and other audiovisual technologies. We are committed to the aesthetic, political, and cultural interpretation of these media and their production, circulation, and reception.
- The Velvet Light Trap The Velvet Light Trap is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering film and media studies. It is edited by graduate students at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Texas at Austin. Each issue covers critical, theoretical, and historical topics relating to a particular theme.
- The Moving Image: The Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists 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 American Archivist Published since 1938, the American Archivist provides a forum for discussion of trends and issues in archival theory and practice. It presents current research and thought about theoretical and practical developments in the archival profession, in the United States and abroad; the relationships between archivists and the creators and users of archives; and cultural, social, legal, and technological developments that affect the nature of recorded information and the need to create and maintain it. Peer-reviewed research articles, case studies, in-depth perspectives, and international scene papers address a wide variety of topics, such as digitization and digital preservation, electronic records, selection and appraisal, description and cataloging, reference and public services, preservation, records management, photographs and visual arts, disaster and contingency planning, copyright, intellectual property, legal issues, and authenticity. The journal also reviews books and other archival literature, web resources, and archival tools and products. The American Archivist has the largest circulation of any English-language archives journal.
- Journal of Film Preservation The Journal of Film Preservation (also known as the JFP) is published by FIAF twice a year. It offers a forum for both general and specialized discussions on all theoretical, technical, and historical aspects of moving image archival activities. Articles are written in English, French, or Spanish, with summaries in the other two languages.
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- Film & Television Literature IndexThe first place to go for scholarly articles in the field
- Academic Search UltimateA scholarly index for journal articles in nearly every academic field of study
- JSTORSearch this archive of full-text scholarly journals spanning a number of disciplines.
- Project MuseA source for full-text articles and books in many fields, including film studies
- Media History Digital LibraryA non-profit digital archive of classic media periodicals in the public domain