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The Moving Image Source Research Guide is a gateway to the best online resources related to film, television, and digital media.

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Online Film and Media Journals

  • Synoptique: The Journal of Film and Film Studies  
    This website created by Concordia University includes a searchable archive of past issues.
  • The Alliance of Women Film Journalists  
    The Alliance of Women Film Journalists, Inc. (AWFJ) is an association of professional female movie critics, reporters, and feature writers working in print, broadcast, and online media. The AWFJ website keeps an active record of fiction feature and documentary films that are by and/or about women or focus on women’s issues. The online magazine features interviews, profiles, reviews, and essays.
  • The Cine-Files   Peer Reviewed
    The Cine-Files is the online journal of the Department of Cinema Studies at Savannah College of Art and Design. Produced biannually, it is edited by faculty and graduate students.
  • Transformative Works and Cultures   Peer Reviewed
    Published by the Organization for Transformative Works, Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC) is an international journal featuring articles about “transformative works,” broadly conceived; articles about media studies; and articles about the fan community.
  • Upperstall.com  
    A general information site on Indian cinema, founded by a group of cinephiles and filmmakers from India. Exhaustive reviews, synopses, and director biographies. In English.
  • Vertigo Magazine   Paid Subscription Required
    Though Vertigo's online versions of its print articles are available to subscribers only, all articles are catalogued by issue and a searchable index. Most articles from the monthly online issues are available in full for free.
  • Wide Screen   Peer Reviewed
    Wide Screen is a peer-reviewed, open access journal devoted to the critical study of cinema from historical, theoretical, political, and aesthetic perspectives.