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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. JCMS’s basic mission is to foster engaged debate and rigorous thinking among humanities scholars of film, television, digital media, and other audiovisual technologies. We are committed to the aesthetic, political, and cultural interpretation of these media and their production, circulation, and reception. 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.

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Publisher:   Michigan Publishing Services
Imprint:   Society for Cinema and Media Studies
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9781607859369

ISBN 10:   160785936
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   19 December 2025
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Spotlight: Ishita Tiwary Interviewed by Mukesh Kulriya Yes, It Is Media: Introduction to the Special Issue by Bo Ruberg and Elizabeth Ellcessor; Co-Editors Uncontainable: Cardboard, Media, Interface by Christina Corfield Digitizing Scent: What Vaporwave Can Teach Us About the Limits of Mediation by Kaitlin Clifton Forcier Black Freedom, Busing as Media Theory, and Stan VanDerBeek's ""Social Media"" by Kirsten Mairead Gill Emergent Mediations Framework: Sensemaking and Sensor-Making in Wearable Technologies Research by James N. Gilmore Shipwreck Media: Crisis Ornaments and How to Read Them by Debashree Mukherjee Green Means Go? The Green Light in and as Media by Catherine Wheatley In Focus: Images and (Infra)Structures Edited by Mal Ahern and Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal Book Reviews Edited by Tupur Chatterjee

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The Society for Cinema and Media Studies is the leading scholarly organization in the United States dedicated to promoting a broad understanding of film, television, and related media through research and teaching grounded in the contemporary humanities tradition. SCMS encourages excellence in scholarship and pedagogy and fosters critical inquiry into the global, national, and local circulation of cinema, television, and other related media. SCMS scholars situate these media in various contexts, including historical, theoretical, cultural, industrial, social, artistic, and psychological.

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