Journal of Popular Film and Television
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I. Basic Journal Info

Country

United States

Journal ISSN: 01956051, 19306458

Publisher: Routledge

History: 1978-2021

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The Journal of Popular Film was founded in 1971 at the Center for Popular Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University. It became the Journal of Popular Film and Television with Volume 7 Number 1 1978 being the first scholarly film journal anywhere to include television in its title and editorial purview. From the beginning the Journal of Popular Film and Television has been resolutely committed to the widest possible range of analytical views and techniques.The primary purpose of the Journal of Popular Film and Television is to provide a representative cross section of criticalcultural perspectives and to broaden the existing literature to include the public visions of popular filmmakers and television showrunners economic and industrial factors and an emphasis on the complex role of audiences in the development of film and television as art forms and widereaching sociocultural forces.Today the Journal of Popular Film and Television remains the leading scholarly publication for sociocultural analyses of films and television programming. A sociocultural orientation to film and television has understandably matured and advanced in many diverse directions over the years but one elemental assumption remains The first allegiance of this genre of criticism is to thecultural context and not the media. As basic as this premise is it powerfully asserts that film and television are cultural products and forms of social knowledge. They are never neutral technologies but are only meaningful within their relationships to broader contexts institutions and discourses.