Film Journals

Please share your experiences working with these journals! Feel free to add other journals to the list. Try to stick with this format: each journal should be separated by dashes, and responses under each journal should each have their own bullet.

See also: Literary Studies Journals

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Animation

• Great initial response--was assigned a sub-editor right away, but I've currently been waiting a year without receiveing reviews.

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Cinema Journal

• Have to be a member of Society for Cinema and Media Studies to submit. Fast rejection but one with a recommendation for another journal, which did accept my article.
• Received a supportive rejection from editor a month after submission. Felt scope was too narrow, but recommended alternative venue. 

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Film & History

• Bloody awful. Was told I'd receive a response in six months. Had to query after ten months passed in order to receive a delay notice. Had to query AGAIN after an entire year only to be told I had been rejected. I guess they never planned on telling me.

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Film History: An International Journal

• Three month turnaround; extremely detailed and supportive comments on a rejection.

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Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television

• Very good experience. Article accepted a month after I sent it (with good readers' reports and some minor changes), then published about 5 months later.

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Journal of Film and Video

• Tremendous backlog.  My piece has been ready to go -- copyedits and all -- for over two years.  Unresponsive editor.  

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Literature/Film Quarterly

• Very positive experience here. Quick turnaround (2 months) for initial response with requested revisions. Readers' comments were insightful and specific. Clear and timely communication from editorial staff.

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October

• This journal is posted at Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies and Theory Journals

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Quarterly Review of Film and Video

• Received the same notification re: 3 year waiting period less than 2 hours after submission.
• Received notification that there is currently a 3 year waiting period for new material, and that they are completely "full up at the moment" within 36 hours of submitting a manuscript.
• Two years ago, received a rejection within 20 minutes of submitting an article. A friend received an acceptance within a similar timeframe. I believe "peer review" is used very loosely here, and that it is the editor deciding on inclusion based on article topic (not argument).

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Screen

• Great experience! Whether they accept your article or not, their feedback is detailed and helpful.

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Studies in French Cinema

• Also posted at French and Francophone Studies Journals

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Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema

• Excellent experience! Article accepted within a month of submission, with good readers' report. Working with the editor was a pleasure.

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Discourse

• could anyone comment on turn around time? thanks in advance

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