Society for Cinema and Media Studies


The Society for Cinema and Media Studies is an organization of professors and scholars. Its home office is at the University of Oklahoma, but it has members throughout the world.
SCMS holds an annual conference and publishes Cinema Journal, a periodical featuring articles on media from a critical perspective. This includes, but is not limited to, film studies, television studies, media studies, visual arts, cultural studies, film and media history, and moving image studies.
Its stated goals are:
Along with the University Film and Video Association, it is one of the principal academic organizations for studying media. Although based in the U.S., it has members throughout the world.

History

SCMS was founded in 1959 as the Society of Cinematologists. It became the Society for Cinema Studies in 1969.
It added "media" to its name in 2002 to account for the work of its members outside of the film studies discipline.

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