Listed here are some of the important journals in film. Notice that many of them are not in JStor! If there's a particular journal that you like, or that is closely aligned with your resarch topic, you may be able to search within the full text of that journal for keywords. Check the VCL link to see a journal's availability. You may also want to search broadly in a particular journal or skim through recent issues to see what's new in the field.
Afterimage: the journal of media arts and cultural criticism in the social and decision sciences
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American Cinematographer: the international journal of motion picture production techniques
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L'Art du Cinema
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Black Camera
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Callaloo
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Camera Obscura: a journal of feminism and film theory
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Cineaction!: radical film criticism & theory
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Cinéaste Magazine
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Cinema (Zürich)
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Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (formerly Cinema Journal)
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Culture Machine (open access)
Film & History: an interdisciplinary journal of film and television studies
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Film Comment
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Film criticism
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Film-Dienst (0720-0781)
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Text in German.
Film History: an international journal (0892-2160)
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Covers all aspects of the historical development of international cinema, and the social, technological, and economic context against which this has occurred.
Film International (1651-6826)
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Film journal international (1526-9884)
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Filmmaker: the magazine of independent film (1063-8954)
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Film Philosophy (1466-4615)
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from 1997 to present via Open Humanities Press
Film quarterly (0015-1386)
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Contains articles and interviews focusing on experimental, documentary, and special-interest films.
Film studies (1469-0314)
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Films in review (0015-1688)
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Magazine/Trade. Ceased.
Framework: the journal of cinema and media (0306-7661)
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Griffithiana (0393-3857)
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Devoted to silent cinema and classic animation. Italian/English
Historical journal of film radio and television (0143-9685)
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Journal of broadcasting & electronic media (0883-8151)
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Journal of film and video (0742-4671)
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Journal of material culture (1359-1835)
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Journal of media practice (1468-2753)
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Journal of popular film and television (0195-6051)
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Journal of visual culture (1470-4129)
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Koncept-media (Russian Language)
Literature film quarterly (0090-4260)
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Media, Culture & Society (0163-4437)
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Media History Monographs
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Moving image (1532-3978)
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New cinemas : Journal of Contemporary Film (1474-2756)
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Nouvelles vues sur le cinéma québécois
from 2004 to present in Directory of Open Access Journals
Postmodern Culture: an electronic journal of interdisciplinary criticism (1053-1920)
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Review of postmodern literature, cultural and social issues.
Quarterly review of film and video (1050-9208)
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Screen (London) (0036-9543)
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Senses of cinema
from 12/01/1999 to present in Freely Accessible Journals
Sight and Sound: the international film monthly (London) (0037-4806)
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South Central review (0743-6831)
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Studies in Australasian cinema (1750-3175)
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Studies in documentary film (1750-3280)
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Studies in European cinema (1741-1548)
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Studies in French cinema (1471-5880)
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Studies in Hispanic cinemas (1478-0488)
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Studies in Russian & Soviet Cinema (1750-3132)
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Velvet light trap (0149-1830)
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Wide Angle: a quarterly journal of film theory, criticism and practice (0160-6840)
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