Its home office is at the University of Oklahoma, but it has members throughout the world.
[1] SCMS holds an annual conference and publishes the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (formerly Cinema Journal), a periodical featuring articles on media from a critical (i.e., not empirical) perspective.
Its stated goals are:[2] The Society for Cinema and Media Studies is the leading scholarly organization in the United States dedicated to promoting a broad understanding of film, television, and related media through research and teaching grounded in the contemporary humanities tradition.Along with the University Film and Video Association, it is one of the principal academic organizations for studying media.
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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