Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (JCMS)

The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies is the peer-reviewed, scholarly publication of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS). The journal was renamed (from Cinema Journal) in October 2018. To that end, JCMS is dedicated to intellectual diversity of all kinds. We publish critical inquiry into the global, national, and local circulation of a wide variety of media. We seek to promote a range of approaches to film and media studies and attendant fields, including (but not limited to) digital media, sound studies, visual culture, video game studies, fan studies, and avant-garde and experimental film and media practices. We do not adhere to any methodological approach to media studies, nor do we focus on particular emphases in the field. The journal is open to all areas of humanities-oriented scholarship in media studies, including digital humanities. JCMS comprises a constellation of forums for scholarship. In addition to 8,000- to 10,000-word research articles, the journal’s quarterly issues include an “In Focus” dossier examining a topic of timely concern to SCMS members and book reviews of recently published texts in the field. JCMS also publishes the quarterly, open-access, online features Archival News, Professional Notes, Spotlight, JCMS Teaching Dossier (in partnership with TeachingMedia.org), and “In Focus” Theme Weeks (in partnership with In Media Res). Moving towards a digital-forward life, JCMS also releases Fifth Issue, an open-access, online-only issue each year, featuring rigorously peer-reviewed, feature-length articles. It also enjoys an ongoing relationship with [in]Transition, the first peer-reviewed academic journal of videographic film and moving image studies.

Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (JCMS) is :-

• International, Peer-Reviewed, Open Access, Refereed, Film Studies, Media Studies, Television Studies, Digital Media, Visual Culture, Sound Studies, Video Game Studies, Cultural Studies, Fan Studies, Experimental Media, Audiovisual Studies, Digital Humanities, Interdisciplinary Humanities , Online or Print , Quarterly Journal

• UGC Approved, ISSN Approved: P-ISSN P-ISSN: 2578-4900, E-ISSN: 2578-4919, Established: 1962,
• Provides Crossref DOI

• Indexed in: Scopus, WoS

• Not indexed in DOAJ, PubMed, UGC CARE