Journals and magazines devoted to a more academic examination of film and the impact of cinema with more of a focus on documentaries, independent film, international cinema, and film history.

Bright Lights Film Journal
Examines classic, commercial, independent, and international film from a wide range of vantage points from the aesthetic to the political.
Cahiers du Cinema
Legendary French film journal now offering articles in four languages including English
Cineaste
America's leading magazine on the art and politics of the cinema
Cinema Scope
Expanding the Frame on International Cinema
Experimental Conversations
Cork Film Centre’s online journal of experimental film, art cinema and video art.
Film And History
The leading peer-reviewed journal in its field, with an editorial board of international scholars from multiple disciplines in the humanities. F&H examines how film and television shape and are shaped
Film International
Focuses on longer essays with in-depth-analysis, but it also features interviews, festival reports and an extensive review section on books, special DVD editions and films at the cinema.
Film Philosophy
An international academic journal dedicated to philosophically reviewing film studies, philosophical aesthetics, and world cinema.
Film Quarterly
Combining the best of scholarship and journalism since 1959, Film Quarterly publishes wide-ranging, well-crafted, incisive, and detailed writing for thoughtful movie lovers.
Images
Quarterly journal of film and popular culture with feature articles and reviews.
Millennium Film Journal
Since 1978 the Millennium Film Journal has published articles about independent, experimental, and avant-garde cinema, video, and, more recently, works that use the newer technologies.
Offscreen
A wide-ranging film journal that covers film festivals, retrospectives, film forums, and both popular and more academic events. Part of our mandate is to cover the Montreal film scene, but within an i
Out 1 Film Journal
Founded in 2007 by James Hansen. All writers retain copyright for their material published herein.
Reverse Shot
A quarterly, independently published film journal.
Rouge
An Australian film journal.
Screening The Past
An international, refereed, electronic journal of screen history.
Sense Of Cinema
An online journal devoted to the serious and eclectic discussion of cinema. We believe cinema is an art that can take many forms, from the industrially-produced blockbuster to the hand-crafted experim
Synoptique
The Journal of Film and Film Studies. It is our intention to make sensible to those looking that there are connections here—historical, personal, coincidental—and that these connections account f
The Film Journal
Independently produced, online film publication, which seeks to contribute to the community of serious-minded film websites by being a forum for eclectic film criticism, study and discussion. The Film
The Journal of Moving Image Studies
The new hard-copy Journal created by Benjamin and his students at Avila University is tasteful not trendy, scholarly but not stuffy, and inclusive without being promiscuous. Those who love motion pict
Vert!go Magazine
Partisan, polemical, politically engaged in its examination of form, content, industry infrastructure and international developments, it has considered the entire spectrum of moving image media: from