Society for Cinema and Media Studies
- Society for Cinema and Media Studies
The Society for Cinema and Media Studies (formerly the Society for Cinema 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 (i.e., not empirical) 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:
:to promote all areas of media studies within universities and two-and four-year colleges; to encourage and reward excellence in scholarship and writing; to facilitate and improve the teaching of media studies as disciplines and to advance multi-cultural awareness and interaction. SCMS is dedicated to serving its members' professional needs and concerns; strengthening the ties between the academic community and those who interact with it, from the media industry to the government to the public at large; and to promoting the preservation of our film, television, and video heritage.
Along with the University Film and Video Association, it is one of the principal U.S. academic organizations for studying media.
History
SCMS was founded in 1959.
It added "media" to its name in the early 2000s to account for the work of its members outside of the film studies discipline.
External links
* [http://www.cmstudies.org/ Official Website]
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