Communication, Media & Theatre Research Guide

The AFI Archive and the AFI Catalog of Feature Films preserve the legacy of America's film heritage for future generations, comprising rare footage from across the history of the moving image and compiling an authoritative record of the first 100 years of American film.

Covers feature films, television, commercials, music videos, digital video, new equipment, DVD, book releases, and much more.

Presents essays in film criticism.

Presents reviews of and essays about international films.

Coverage of communication as a theory, practice, technology, and discipline of power

Note: the Library does not have a subscription to this journal, so all articles must be interlibrary loaned. Convergence aims to encourage and advance interdisciplinary modes of enquiry into the study of the histories, trajectories, impacts, practices, pleasures and creative potential of contemporary convergent media & allied innovative technologies.

Critical Studies in Media Communication (CSMC) is a peer-reviewed publication of the National Communication Association. CSMC publishes original scholarship in mediated and mass communication from a cultural studies and/or critical perspective. It particularly welcomes submissions that enrich debates among various critical traditions, methodological and analytical approaches, and theoretical standpoints.

Features articles on narrative, documentary and independent film makers, filmography, film criticism and book reviews.

Film Matters is a peer-reviewed journal with submissions written by undergraduate students. Each issue contains feature articles, as well as a healthy reviews section.

Film Quarterly has published substantial, peer-reviewed writing on cinema and media for nearly sixty years, earning a reputation as one of the most authoritative academic film journals in the United States, as well as an important English-language voice of cinema studies abroad.

Film Studies is a refereed journal that approaches cinema and the moving image from within the fields of critical, conceptual and historical scholarship.

JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies is sponsored by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies and represents recent scholarship by SCMS members.

The Journal of Popular Culture continues to break down the barriers between so-called “low” and “high” culture and focuses on filling in the gaps that a neglect of popular culture has left in our understanding of the workings of society.

Articles on individual motion pictures, interviews with directors, screenwriters and literary figures, reviews of current film adaptations of literary works, reviews of books concerning film and responses to articles and reviews.

Note: the Library does not have a subscription to this journal, so all articles must be interlibrary loaned. Media, Culture & Society provides a major international forum for the presentation of research and discussion concerning the media, including the newer information and communication technologies, within their political, economic, cultural and historical contexts.

New Media & Society is an international journal that provides an interdisciplinary forum for the examination of the social dynamics of media and information change.

Popular Culture Studies Journal is an academic, refereed journal for scholars, academics, and students from the many disciplines that study America, American culture, American popular culture, and global popular culture as it relates to the United States.

The international entertainment weekly; feature articles, interviews and profiles, television and motion picture reviews and ratings, financing, legislation, box office reports and news of note on all aspects of the entertainment industry.