Society for Cinema and Media Studies

SCMS Flyer reads "Reminder Award Submission Portal Closes Monday, August 4" over a photo of downtown Chicago

REMINDER: Submissions for the 2026 Awards cycle are due on Monday, August 4, 5 PM CT.

If you’ve published recently, don’t miss out on your chance to submit work for consideration!

Statement on District Court Ruling onTrump Administration Cancellation of NEH Grants Statement on ruling issued July 25, 2025.

Statement on District Court Ruling onTrump Administration Cancellation of NEH Grants

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Issue 64.5 of JCMS (published open access online) is now available here: quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/oa-is...
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Co-chair of the Precarious Labor Organization of
@scmstudies.bsky.social here! Application for membership fee waivers is LIVE. Deadline to apply: August 1 by 5pm CT. If you applied before July 11 at 2:30pm, please reapply!

Details re: eligibility + lottery here:

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Want to help shape the future of SCMS? The Board self-nomination form is now live through Sept. 15. Go here for more information: conta.cc/3TFgY8e

Co-chair of the Precarious Labor Organization of @scmstudies.bsky.social here! Application for membership fee waivers is LIVE. Deadline to apply: August 1 by 5pm CT. If you applied before July 11 at 2:30pm, please reapply!

Details re: eligibility + lottery here:

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Precarious scholar? Are you thinking of submitting to #SCMS2026 but no institutional support for membership? Co-chair, grad rep, or on an SCMS committee? Apply for a 2025/26 SCMS membership fee waiver from the PLO! Deadline August 1st!
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ACLS Announces 2025-26 Fellowship and Grant Competitions ACLS is pleased to announce its 2025-26 fellowship and grant competitions, which support research across all fields of the humanities and social sciences.

ACLS is pleased to announce our 2025-26 fellowship and grant competitions. We offer programs that support research across all fields of the humanities and social sciences: bit.ly/4lI8A3C

#humanities #socialsciences #funding

Image of a bridge announcing submission portals are now open for 2026 SCMS conference.

Conference proposal and award submission portals are now open! Questions? Be sure to check the General Conference Guidelines and Procedures on our website.

#SCMS26

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All memberships will expire on June 30th! Don't forget to renew to avoid missing important communication from SCMS.

Renew here: cmstudies.org/page/Membership_Renew

Congratulations to Dr. Elizabeth Lundén (University of Southern California) on being named a John W. Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress for the project “Shaping Global Fashion Discourses: The Archival Afterlife of Fox Movietone’s Fashion News.”

SCMS congratulates member Eleanor Patterson for winning the biannual IAMHIST Michael Nelson Book Prize for 2025 and the BEA 2025 Book Award for her first monograph, Bootlegging the Airwaves: Alternative Histories of Radio and Television Distribution.

Graphic congratulating Molly A. Schneider of Columbia College Chicago for receiving the 2025 Broadcast Historian Award from the Library of American Broadcasting Foundation for her book Gold Dust on the Air: Television Anthology Drama and Midcentury American Culture. Includes her photo, book cover, and logos of the Library of American Broadcasting Foundation and BEA.

Congratulations to Molly A. Schneider on receiving the 2025 Broadcast Historian Award from the Library of American Broadcasting Foundation. She received the award for her book Gold Dust on the Air: Television Anthology Drama and Midcentury American Culture (U of Texas Press).

Portrait graphic congratulating SCMS member Vuk Vuković, University of Pittsburgh, on being named an ACLS Leading Edge Fellow for his role as Associate Curator and Summit Coordinator at the National Public Housing Museum.

🎉 Congratulations to SCMS member Vuk Vuković (University of Pittsburgh) on being named an ACLS Leading Edge Fellow! Vuk will serve as Associate Curator and Summit Coordinator at the National Public Housing Museum.

Join the Professional Development Committee’s “How to Prepare for the Job Market” virtual workshop this Friday, June 6 at 1PM EDT. Guidance on preparing materials, cover letters, and research/teaching statements. Sign up to receive the Zoom link: forms.gle/GENr6MkLGzi1....
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(2/2) Check out this collaboration between FIAF + George Eastman Museum, with funding from Louis B. Mayer Foundation, George Eastman Museum Publishing Trust Endowment, and FIAF's Eileen Bowser Memorial Fund. We congratulate all involved, especially the SCMS members contributing to the project!

(1/1) New! Film Atlas (filmatlas.com) is an online encyclopedia of film as a physical medium, featuring essays + images contributed by 200+ authors from 25+ countries.

SCMS congratulating Jean Ma, Daniel Morgan, Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa, Jacob Smith, and Samhita Sunya, finalists for the 2025 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes & Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards!

🎉 Congratulations to Jean Ma, Daniel Morgan, Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa, Jacob Smith, and Samhita Sunya, finalists for the 2025 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes & Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards! 🎉

A longer obituary for Barbara, who was a frequent presenter at SCMS conferences and whose impact on the scholarly community was characterized by her generosity, enthusiasm, and a wide and deep knowledge of archival resources about Hollywood filmmaking history, will be forthcoming in the near future.

Barbara Hall, film historian, Archivist for the Art Directors Guild, former Archivist at the Margaret Herrick Library (AMPAS), and co-author of Letters from Hollywood: Inside the Private World of Classic American Moviemaking (2019), passed away on May 24, 2025, surrounded by her loving family.

I’m finishing my term this summer as co-chair of the Sound and Music scholarly interest group of @scmstudies.bsky.social. I’d like to leave it in good hands. Here’s how to get involved:

Portrait of Jose Miguel Palacios with text announcing his ACLS Project Development Grant for a project titled The Cinema to Come: The Archives, Writings, and Films of Raúl Ruiz. Logos of ACLS and SCMS are also included.

🎉 Congratulations to Jose Miguel Palacios of Cal State Long Beach on receiving an ACLS Project Development Grant for "The Cinema to Come: The Archives, Writings, and Films of Raúl Ruiz"!

Special episode! Jordan Sjol talks with acclaimed writer José Rivera about his journey from theater to Hollywood, discussing adaptation of literay classics, writing across media, and balancing art with commerce. aca-media.org/episode80

SCMS flyer announcing today is the last day to volunteer for committee service.

Today's the last day to volunteer to serve on a committee!
Read more here: cmstudies.org/page/Volunteer_service

Reminder: Friday, May 16, 2025 is the last day to volunteer for service. You can serve on an Award or Standing committee, or the 2026 Program committee. SCMS relies on its members to function at its best, so get involved!

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This May, join Women Make Movies + Film Fatales for a powerful webinar series featuring case studies from 4 WMM filmmakers whose films premiered at Sundance & SXSW. From co-productions to creative distribution—don’t miss these candid convos. Sign up: bit.ly/WMMCaseStudies

SCMS Flyer "Call for Committee Volunteers". Flyer shows hands raised on pinkish background.

SCMS needs you! The Volunteer for Service form is open now until May 16, 2025. Follow the link listed below to find out more about our committees and volunteer opportunities.

www.cmstudies.org/page/Volunte...

SCMS flyer congratulating Jessica Bardsley (NYU) and Patrick Keating (Trinity University) on being named Guggenheim Fellows! 👏🎉

Congratulations to Jessica Bardsley (NYU) and Patrick Keating (Trinity University) on being named Guggenheim Fellows! 👏🎉

Flyer featuring ACLS Fellowship recipients: Lida Zeitlin-Wu (Old Dominion University), project titled How Color Became a Technology: The Making of Chromatic Capitalism; and Debashree Mukherjee (Columbia University), project titled Tropical Machines: A Decolonial History of Media & Modernity.

🎉 Congrats to SCMS members Debashree Mukherjee (Columbia, "Tropical Machines: A Decolonial History of Media & Modernity") and Lida Zeitlin-Wu (ODU, "How Color Became a Technology") on their ACLS Fellowships!

Congratulations to SCMS PDC Committee Member Swapnil Rai (University of Michigan) on her book "Networked Bollywood: How Star Power Globalized Hindi Cinema" receiving an honorable mention at the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies Book Awards