FIAF International Index to Films Periodicals – Bibliographic data, journal article search, full-text access to over 60 journals. Under site license
Open access digitized journals
Media History Digital Library – “ Online Access to the Histories of Cinema, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound”. A fantastic free library! A non-profit project to digitize collections of early film magazines. These include Ciné-journal (1908-1912), The Film Daily (1918-1948), Photoplay (1914-1940), Close Up (1927-1933), Motion Picture News (1913-1930), Motion Picture [Magazine] (1914-1941), Motion Picture Daily (1931-1960), Modern Screen (1930-1960), Screenland (1920-1960), Variety (1905-1926) and more. Read online or download
Switzerland :
- Scriptorium – the archives of the French-language press (daily newspapers, illustrated magazines, Vaudois heritage documents, etc.). Here you’ll find Lausanne’s film magazine Travelling, all 58 issues of which have been digitized.
- Ciné-Bulletin (1975 to present)
- Cinema (1974-2020)
- Close Up (1927-1933)
- L’écran illustré (1924-1927)
- L’Effort cinégraphique suisse: Revue mensuelle = Deutschschweizerische Kino-Revue / Schweizer Filmkurier: Monatliche Revue (1930-1934)
- Filmbulletin: Zeitschrift für Film und Kino (1959->)
- Schweizer Film = Film Suisse: offizielles Organ des Schweiz. Lichtspieltheater-Verbandes, deutsche und italienische Schweiz (1934-1944)
- Kinema (1913-1919)
- Zappelnde Leinwand: Eine Wochenschrift fürs Kino-Publikum (1920-1924)
- Schweizer illustrierte Filmwoche (1924-1926)
- Illustrierte Filmwoche (1926)
France :
- Gallica(BnF) – French cinema press
- Ciné-Ressources – Directory of digitized magazines
- Bordeaux-Ciné (1928-1940) – Weekly cinema magazine for the South-West region
- Cinéa (1921-1923) – Magazine directed by Louis Delluc
- Cinégraphie (1927-1928 / 5 issues) – Magazine directed by Jean Dréville
- Ciné-journal (1908-1912) – Weekly magazine for the film industry
- Cinémagazine (1921-1935) – Weekly illustrated magazine, monthly review since 1930
- Ciné pour tous (1919-1923) – Bimonthly magazine for the general public
- Pour vous (1928-1940) – Popular film magazine with a wealth of photos
- Sud-Ouest Spectacles (1932-1937) – Regional magazine for cinema managers
Italy:
- Library of the Museo Nazionale del Cinema (Turin) – Access to magazines dating back to the silent film era, such as La vita cinematografica, Cine-Cinema
- Bianco & Nero (1937-2002) – PDF files with text recognition, but cannot be downloaded or copied
- Cinema Illustrazione (1930-1939)
- Cinema: quindicinale di divulgazione cinematografica (1936-1954)
- Cinematografo (1927-1931)
- Other magazines
Germany and Austria :
A selection of free magazines
- DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals / Répertoire de revues électroniques en accès libre
- Journal Storage – Online archiving of academic and scientific journals, especially in the humanities and social sciences
- Cahiers du cinéma – Online summaries only (2005 to present)
- Ciné-Tracts: A Journal of Film, Communication, Culture and Politics – Access to the full text of the 17 issues published between 1977 and 1982
- Conserveries mémorielles – A transdisciplinary journal for young researchers
- Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies – Free access to most articles since 2006
- Critikat – “The website for film reviews”.
- Dérives.tv – Dérives autour du cinéma… Numerous texts and films by authors with little or no distribution.
- L’écran traduit – Biannual magazine dedicated to audiovisual translation (AVT) in all its forms (subtitling, dubbing, voice-over) and for all distribution media (cinema, television, etc.).
- Ekphrasis : images, cinema, theatre, media – Romanian and English-language journal devoted to contemporary visual culture. Access to the full text of issues published from 2008 to 2013
- Film Culture / UbuWeb – Access to the full text of selected articles from the American magazine FILM CULTURE (1955-1996)
- Le Film français – “The leading web magazine for audiovisual professionals”.
- Films for the Feminist Classroom – “publishes film reviews that provide a critical assessment of the value of films as pedagogical tools in the feminist classroom”
- Genre en séries : cinéma, télévision, médias – “Online academic journal using scientific criteria (international scientific committee, double-blind evaluation), to explore the way in whichgender crosses media cultures”.
- Hors Champ – Critical reflection on the world of images, from auteur cinema to mass media (Montreal)
- Images – “A journal of film and popular culture
- Intermédialités – “Histoire et théorie des arts, des lettres et des techniques” (Montreal)
- Kinema. A Journal for film and audiovisual media – Access to the full text of all articles in this Canadian magazine
- Kino-Eye – Review of European cinema (especially from Eastern Europe)
- Millenium Film Journal – Access to all summaries. Some articles are available in full text
- Mise au point – Academic journal dedicated to research on cinema, television and new screens (Cahiers de l’association française des enseignants chercheurs en cinéma et audiovisuel)
- Objectif cinéma – Webmag with interviews, film analyses, portraits, articles on film professions, reports on film shoots, etc.
- P.O.V. A Danish journal of film studies – Full-text access to all issues (1996-2009)
- Radical Software – Historical video magazine, published from 1970 to 1974. The 11 issues are available as PDF files
- Le Rayon Vert – Belgian film magazine offering original content from the world of cinema every week.
- Rouge – Online magazine edited by Helen Bandis, Adrian Martin and Grant McDonald. Observations, analyses and reflections on cinema
- Scope, an online journal of film & tv studies – Full-text access to all issues (1999 to present)
- Screening the past – Full-text access to all issues (1997 to present)
- Senses of Cinema – Full-text access to all issues (1999 to present)
- Vertigo – Full-text access to all issues (1993-2012)
- VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture – “A multi-media e-journal on the past and present of European television”.