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Explore UC Press Film & Media Studies Journals at #SCMS26

Enjoy limited-time free content from film and media studies journals during #SCMS26.

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Hollywood's Last Golden Age

A brief look at Hollywood's last "Golden Age" with acclaimed author Thomas Schatz.

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The Future of Work in Hollywood

Authors Miranda Banks and Kate Fortmueller present excerpts from their new book about preparing for work in evolving landscape of Hollywood.

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Coming Soon

André Bazin on Documentary: Cinema's Urge to Explore

by André Bazin (Author), Dudley Andrew (Editor), and 2 more

Apr 2026

Trans Cinema: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds

by Laura Horak (Author)

Apr 2026

Boom to Bust: How Streaming Broke Hollywood Workers

by Miranda Banks (Author), Kate Fortmueller (Author)

Apr 2026

Smart as a City: The Politics of Test-Bed Urbanism

by Burcu Baykurt (Author)

May 2026

Journals

Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism

Representations

Film Quarterly

Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal

Open Access Titles

Care, Kin, Crack-Up: Fukushima and the Intrusion of Gaia

by Margherita Long (Author)

Nov 2026

Open Access

Preprogrammed: How Electronic Presets Changed Music and Media

by Amy Skjerseth (Author)

Sep 2026

Open Access

Working Title: Media Packaging and the Margins of Art

by Kalani Michell (Author)

Jun 2026

Open Access

Bibliotactics: Libraries and the Colonial Public in Vietnam

by Cindy Anh Nguyen (Author)

Jan 2026

Open Access

Pipeline Cinema: The Cultural Infrastructure of Oil Extraction in Iran and Iraq

by Mona Damluji (Author)

Dec 2025

Open Access

Archipelagic Cinemas: Screening Southeast Asian Modernity

by Dag S. Yngvesson (Author)

Nov 2025

Open Access

Music Streaming around the World

by David Hesmondhalgh (Author)

Oct 2025

Open Access

Undead: (Inter)(in)animation, Feminisms, and the Art of War

by Karen Redrobe (Author)

Apr 2025

Open Access