Below is a list of some of the core journals in the field. This list is not comprehensive but rather serves to introduce you to some of the key journals in your discipline. If you'd like to see a journal/magazine added to this list, just send me an email!
Academic Film Journals
Academic Media Studies Journals
Film and Media Studies - Magazines
Open Access Journals & Magazines
Animation Journal was the first peer-reviewed scholarly journal devoted to animation history and theory. Its content reflects the diversity of animation's production techniques and national origins.
BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies
BioScope encourages theoretical and empirical research both on located screen practices and wider networks, linkages, and patterns of circulation involving research into the historical, regional, and virtual spaces of screen cultures, including globalized and multi-sited conditions of production and circulation.
Canadian Journal of Film Studies
Published in the spring and fall, the journal offers insightful reviews of books and films and a Featured Section of articles that looks closely at one significant topic.
Film International focuses on longer essays with in-depth-analysis, but it also features interviews, festival reports and an extensive review section on books, special DVD editions and films at the cinema.
Film Journal International (earlier title: Film Journal) covers exhibition, production, and distribution, reporting both U.S. and international news, with features on industry trends, movie theater design and technology, screen advertising, and other topics.
Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media
A peer-reviewed, international journal published bi-annually by Wayne State University.
Journal of Cinema & Media Studies
Journal of Japanese & Korean Cinema
The Moving Image: The Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists
New Review of Film and Television Studies
Science Fiction Film & Television
America's Leading Magazine on the Art and Politics of the Cinema
Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture
Discourse explores a variety of topics in contemporary cultural studies, theories of media and literature, and the politics of sexuality, including questions of language and psychoanalysis.
Founded in 1962, Film Comment has been the home of independent film journalism for over 50 years, publishing in-depth interviews, critical analysis, and feature coverage of mainstream, art-house, and avant-garde filmmaking from around the world. Today it is a bimonthly print magazine and a website published by Film at Lincoln Center.
The Magazine of Independent Film
International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics
Journal of Media Business Studies
Journal of Religion, Media, and Digital Culture
Journal of Popular Film & Television
Journal of Radio & Audio Media (formerly Journal of Radio Studies)
Sexualization, Media, and Society
Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media
Film Matters is North America's first-ever peer-reviewed film publication for undergraduates, on which undergraduates serve as the editorial committee.
Film-Philosophy is an open access peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the engagement between film studies and philosophy. The journal is interested in the ways in which films develop and contribute to philosophical discussion.
Flow is an online journal of television and media studies. Flow’s mission is to provide a space where researchers, teachers, students, and the public can read about and discuss the changing landscape of contemporary media at the speed that media moves.
International Journal of Computer Games Technology
[in]Transition: A Media Commons and Cinema Journal Project
Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC)