Online Film and Media Studies Journals

Latest update: May 1, 2012
A-Z list of links to online, Open Access, English-language Film-Studies related e-journals and other relevant scholarly, periodical websites with at least some OA content
(Film Studies For Free's favourite journal titles are in bold) 
  1. 16:9 (Eng-lang articles in Danish Film Studies Journal)
  2. Acidemic Journal of Film and Media
  3. ACTA Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies (hat tip to Adrian Martin)
  4. Afterall Online Journal (on artists' film and video)
  5. Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media 
  6. Alternate Takes (a superior film criticism website with post-doctoral contributors) 
  7. Americana (Hollywood) : the Journal of American Popular Culture
  8. Anime Essays 
  9. Animation Studies
  10. Antenna: Responses to Media and Culture
  11. Audiovisual Thinking: The Journal of Academic Videos
  12. Bright Lights Film Journal
  13. CineAction (sample articles)
  14. Cineaste 
  15. Cinema Journal (free sample issue)
  16. Cinema Scope
  17. Cinephile
  18. Ciné-Tracts: A Journal of Film, Communication, Culture and Politics (ARCHIVE 1977-1982)
  19. Colloquy 
  20. Consciousness, Literature and the Arts
  21. Critical Studies in Television
  22. Criticine (Southeast Asian Cinema)
  23. CTheory.net
  24. Culture Machine
  25. DIGICULT
  26. DOCUMENTARY BOX (Yamagata Film Festival article archive) [hat tip Adrian Martin]
  27. e-flux art journal
  28. Entertext - Animation Special Issue (ed. by Paul Ward)
  29. Excursions
  30. Experimental Conversations (Cork Film Centre Journal)
  31. Fandom Research
  32. Fanthropology
  33. New Fast Capitalism Not too much on film, but excellent articles on new media, etc.
  34. Fibreculture Journal
  35. Film Historia (Index to English-Language articles)
  36. Film International: filmint.
  37. FILM: Danish Film Institute Film Magazine
  38. Film-Philosophy
  39. Film Quarterly (some free articles in each issue)
  40. Film Studies (ARCHIVE 2004-2007)
  41. FlowTV
  42. Forum
  43. fps: framespersecond (on animation) ARCHIVE ONLY)
  44. Framework [online sections]
  45. Frieze Magazine (online sections)
  46. Genders
  47. German Films Quarterly (English-language articles)
  48. hyperrhiz: new media cultures
  49. Hz Journal
  50. Illusions: New Zealand Moving Image and Performing Arts Criticism 
  51. Image and Narrative
  52. Images: A Journal of Film and Popular Culture 
  53. INCITE! A journal of experimental media & radical aesthetics
  54. IndianAuteur
  55. New InMedia, an online French Journal, in English, of Media and Media Representations in the English-Speaking World
  56. In Media Res
  57. Institute of Network Cultures 
  58. Intellect New Journals (free online issues)
  59. Intensities: The Journal of Cult Media (ARCHIVE)
  60. International Journal of Žižek Studies
  61. Irish Communications Review (ARCHIVE)
  62. Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies
  63. JOAN'S DIGEST Feminist Film Studies and Criticism
  64. Journal of Aesthetics and Culture
  65. The Journal for Artistic Research 
  66. Journal of Film Preservation (FIAF) 
  67. Journal of the Moving Image
  68. The Journal of Media practice: SCREENWORKS
  69. Journal of Moving Image Studies (ARCHIVE 2002-2007)
  70. Journal of Religion and Film
  71. New Journal of European Television History and Culture
  72. Jump Cut
  73. Kinocultura 
  74. Limina: a journal of historical and cultural studies
  75. LOLA (edited by Adrian Martin and Girish Shambu)
  76. M/C Journal: A journal of Media and Culture
  77. MediaCommons Press
  78. MEDIA FIELDS JOURNAL: Critical Explorations in Media and Space
  79. Media History Monographs
  80. Mediascape
  81. Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication (first issue 1 online)
  82. Midnight Eye (Japanese Cinema)
  83. Millennium Film Journal (avant-garde cinema and practice) (items gradually available online)
  84. MOVIE: A Journal of Film Criticism
  85. Moving Image Source
  86. Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Post-Graduate Network (PGN)
  87. Neural
  88. Offscreen Journal
  89. Other Voices (ARCHIVE)
  90. P.O.V (A Danish Journal of Film Studies) (ARCHIVE 1996-2009)
  91. http://www.participations.org/
  92. Post Identity (ARCHIVE 1997-2007)
  93. PsyArt
  94. Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media
  95. Reverse Shot
  96. Revue LISA / LISA e-journal
  97. Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge
  98. Rouge
  99. Savage Cinema (on horror cinema)
  100. Scan: Journal of Media Arts and Culture (Handy Index) 
  101. Scene 360 (quarterly online film and arts magazine)
  102. Scope: an on-line journal of film studies
  103. Screen (Open Access material)
  104. Screen Culture
  105. Screen Machine 
  106. Screening the Past
  107. Senses of Cinema
  108. SFRA Review (Science Fiction Research Assocation - delayed access. Scroll down on page for index)
  109. Sight and Sound (some articles online) 
  110. Silent film journals online (List maintained by Luke McKernan at The Bioscope)
  111. Skepsi - Interdisciplinary graduate journal
  112. Static Mass Emporium (a high quality, independent film journal and criticism website informed by film studies)
  113. Studies in Popular Culture
  114. SYNOPTIQUE: The Journal of Film and Film Studies
  115. The Film Journal (ARCHIVE 2002-2006)
  116. The New Everyday - A MediaCommons Project
  117. Transformative Works and Cultures
  118. Undercurrent (Fipresci)
  119. Vectors
  120. Update Vertigo Magazine (now at Close Up)
  121. Views Reviews Interviews (Scholarly journal mostly on Indian Cinema)
  122. Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture (WPCC)
  123. Wide Screen
  124. World Picture Journal
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