1970 | ||
semiannually | ||
English, but manuscripts in other languages have been published with an accompanying English translation. | ||
American Studies, Film and Television Studies, History and Cultural Studies |
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0360-3695 | ||
Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies
On December 29, 1970 John E. O’Connor and Martin A. Jackson founded the Historians Film Committee, with the intent to begin publishing a journal on film and history. They published the following statement: The Historians Film Committee exists to further the use of film sources in teaching and research, to disseminate information about film and film use to historians and other social scientists, to work for an effective system of film preservation so that scholars may have ready access to film archives, and to organize periodic conferences and seminars dealing with film. A journal of film and social sciences will be established at the earliest practicable date in order to facilitate the exchange of information among scholars and others concerned with film. Efforts will be made to contact interested scholars in other social science organizations with a view toward creating a common association of film researchers. Similarly, contacts will be maintained with foreign scholars concerned with film use. We study how media is shaping history as well as how media are being shaped by history. We examine the evolution of genre over time and how contemporary pressures affect the changes in genre formulas. We review relevant books, films, and television specials. Film & History is an Affiliated Society of the American Historical Association since 1970. In addition to our print journal, Film & History produces a CD-ROM series that includes peer-reviewed scholarly articles, books, films, and audio presentations. See the website for full details on all the activities of the journal (www.filmandhistory.org). |