Online Film and Media Studies Journals

Latest update: May 21, 2014

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. Cine-Excess
16. The Cine-Files
    
17. Cinema Journal (free sample issue)
18. Cinema Scope
19. Cinephile
20. Ciné-Tracts: A Journal of Film, Communication, Culture and Politics (ARCHIVE 1977-1982)
21. Colloquy 
22. Consciousness, Literature and the Arts
23. Critical Studies in Television
24. Criticine (Southeast Asian Cinema)
25. CTheory.net
26. Culture Machine
27. débordements
28. DIGICULT
29. DOCUMENTARY BOX (Yamagata Film Festival article archive) [hat tip Adrian Martin]
30. e-flux art journal
31. Entertext - Animation Special Issue (ed. by Paul Ward)
32. Excursions
33. Experimental Conversations (Cork Film Centre Journal)
34. Fandom Research
35. Fanthropology
36. Fast Capitalism Not too much on film, but excellent articles on new media, etc.
    
37. Fibreculture Journal
38. Film Historia (Index to English-Language articles)
39. Filmicon: Journal of Greek Film Studies
40. Film International: filmint.
41. FILM: Danish Film Institute Film Magazine
42. Film-Philosophy
43. Film Quarterly (some free articles in each issue)
44. Film Studies (ARCHIVE 2004-2007)
45. FlowTV
46. Forum
47. fps: framespersecond (on animation) ARCHIVE ONLY)
48. Frames Cinema Journal (inaugural issue on Film and Moving Image Studies Re-Born Digital? guest-edited by Catherine Grant of FSFF) 
49. Frieze Magazine (online sections)
50. Genders
51. German Films Quarterly (English-language articles)
52. hyperrhiz: new media cultures
53. Hz Journal
54. Illusions: New Zealand Moving Image and Performing Arts Criticism 
55. Image and Narrative
56. Images: A Journal of Film and Popular Culture 
57. INCITE! A journal of experimental media & radical aesthetics
58. IndianAuteur
59. InMedia, an online French Journal, in English, of Media and Media Representations in the English-Speaking World
60. In Media Res
61. Institute of Network Cultures 
62. Intellect New Journals (free online issues)
63. INTENSITIES: The Journal of Cult Media 
64. International Journal of Žižek Studies
65. New [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies
66. Irish Communications Review (ARCHIVE)
67. Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies
68. JOAN'S DIGEST Feminist Film Studies and Criticism
69. Journal of Aesthetics and Culture
70. The Journal for Artistic Research 
71. Journal of Film Preservation (FIAF) 
72. Journal of the Moving Image
73. The Journal of Media practice: SCREENWORKS
74. Journal of Moving Image Studies (ARCHIVE 2002-2007)
75. Journal of Religion and Film
76. Journal of European Television History and Culture
77. Jump Cut
78. Kinephanos: Popular Culture Film Studies
79. Kinocultura 
80. Limina: a journal of historical and cultural studies
81. LOLA (edited by Adrian Martin and Girish Shambu)
82. M/C Journal: A journal of Media and Culture
83. MediaCommons Press
84. MEDIA FIELDS JOURNAL: Critical Explorations in Media and Space
85. New MEDIA INDUSTRIES JOURNAL
86. Media History Monographs
87. Mediascape
88. Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication (first issue 1 online)
89. Midnight Eye (Japanese Cinema)
90. Millennium Film Journal (avant-garde cinema and practice) (items gradually available online)
91. MOVIE: A Journal of Film Criticism
92. Moving Image Source
93. NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies
    
94. Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Post-Graduate Network (PGN)
95. Neural
96. Offscreen Journal
97. Other Voices (ARCHIVE)
98. P.O.V (A Danish Journal of Film Studies) (ARCHIVE 1996-2009)
99. PARTICIPATIONS: A Journal of Audience Research
100. Photogénie 
101. Post Identity (ARCHIVE 1997-2007)
102. PsyArt
103. Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media
104. Reverse Shot
105. Revue LISA / LISA e-journal
106. Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge
107. Rouge
108. Savage Cinema (on horror cinema)
109. Scan: Journal of Media Arts and Culture (Handy Index) 
110. Scene 360 (quarterly online film and arts magazine)
111. Scope: an on-line journal of film studies
112. Screen (Open Access material)
     
113. Screen Culture
114. Screen Machine 
115. Screening the Past
116. Senses of Cinema
117. SFRA Review (Science Fiction Research Assocation - delayed access. Scroll down on page for index)
118. Sight and Sound (some articles online) 
119. Silent film journals online (List maintained by Luke McKernan at The Bioscope)
120. Skepsi - Interdisciplinary graduate journal
121. Static Mass Emporium (a high quality, independent film journal and criticism website informed by film studies)
122. Studies in Popular Culture
123. SYNOPTIQUE: The Journal of Film and Film Studies
124. The Film Journal (ARCHIVE 2002-2006)
125. The New Everyday - A MediaCommons Project
126. Transformative Works and Cultures
127. Undercurrent (Fipresci)
128. Vectors
129. Vertigo Magazine (now at Close Up)
130. Views Reviews Interviews (Scholarly journal mostly on Indian Cinema)
131. Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture (WPCC)
132. Wide Screen
133. World Picture Journal