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Journals

1st Floor Periodicals
Historical

Filmmaking Serials that we currently subscribe to at KCAI, available for you to view in Jannes Library. Click on the Journal Title to go view the webpage associated with the Journal.
Journal Title	Frequency
AFTERIMAGE	QUARTERLY
AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER	MONTHLY
APERATURE	QUARTERLY
ART IN AMERICA	BIMONTHLY
ART BULLETIN	QUARTERLY
ARTFORUM INTERNATIONAL	10 PER YEAR
ART JOURNAL	QUARTERLY
ARTS OF ASIA	QUARTERLY
CONTACT SHEET	5 PER YEAR
FILM QUARTERLY	QUARTERLY
SIGHT & SOUND	MONTHLY
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC	MONTHLY
SMITHSONIAN	MONTHLY
MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW	BIMONTHLY

On the first floor, we have the most recent issues of all of our current periodicals and journals and even issues for those that have been discontinued. The journals and periodicals on the first floor range from 1996 to the current issue or latest purchased issue.

If you'd like to inquire about a pervious issue, please contact library@kcai.edu.

Other Resources

Chicago Film Archives
Chicago Film Archives is a regional film archive dedicated to identifying, collecting, preserving and providing access to films that represent the Midwest. Our purpose is to serve institutions and filmmakers of this region and elsewhere by establishing a repository for institutional and private film collections; serve a variety of cultural, academic and artistic communities by making the films available locally, nationally, and internationally for exhibition, research, and production; and serve our culture by restoring and preserving films that are rare or not in existence elsewhere.
Le Cinéma Club
Le Cinéma Club is a uniquely curated streaming platform screening one film every week, for free. Available for seven days to all visitors globally, selections vary in genre and length, with special attention given to short formats.
Eye Filmmuseum Film Player
Our colleagues recommend their favourites on offer from the many online platforms via Home Cinema Tips and make their selection from various Top 100-film lists. You can spend hours searching through our own online film collection. We also guide you through the best film platforms.
Cinelimite
São Paulo-based Cinelimite Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to exhibiting, distributing, and digitizing repertory Brazilian Cinema.
Another Screen
Welcome to Another Screen, Another Gaze's irregular streaming platform, bringing you ephemeral programmes of films by women across modes of production and geographies, with new writing and translations about these works.
byNWR
Founded by Nicolas Winding Refn, byNWR curates the preservation of the past and the innovation of the future. Based in Copenhagen and Los Angeles, we are an international production house, a destination for unique cultural content and a creative agency.

Mubi Notebook
Notebook is a daily, international film publication. Our mission is to guide film lovers searching, lost or adrift in an overwhelming sea of content. We offer text, images, sounds and video as critical maps, passways and illuminations to the worlds of contemporary and classic film.
Current
An online magazine covering film culture past and present hosted by the Criterion Collection.
Film Comment
Since 1962, Film Comment has been the home of independent film journalism, publishing in-depth interviews, critical analysis, and feature coverage of mainstream, art-house, and avant-garde filmmaking from around the world. In 2020, Film at Lincoln Center announced the return of Film Comment with the relaunch of its podcast and a weekly Film Comment Letter—a first step towards bringing the best in film criticism back to the publication’s devoted audience around the world.
Reverse Shot
Reverse Shot is a publication of Museum of the Moving Image. The magazine was first formed in 2003 and was run independently by editors Michael Koresky and Jeff Reichert until September 2014, when they partnered with the Museum.
Another Gaze
Founded in January 2016, Another Gaze is an irregular print and online journal.
Screen Slate
Screen Slate is a guide to moving image culture in New York, the SF Bay, and beyond. We share city-specific daily listings of arthouse/repertory cinema and gallery shows and publish original cultural criticism, interviews, zines, and podcasts.
Bright Wall/Dark Room
right Wall/Dark Room offers a different lens on film & television: no hot takes, no clickbait, no “content,” no ads. We’re an independent online film journal devoted to exploring the relationship between movies and the business of being alive.

Timeline of Historical Film Colors
This database was created in 2012 and has been developed and curated by Barbara Flueckiger, professor at the Department of Film Studies, University of Zurich to provide comprehensive information about historical film color processes invented since the end of the 19th century including specific still photography color technologies that were their conceptual predecessors.
Technicolor Online Research Archive
More than 40,000 documents ranging in date from 1914 to 1955—notes, journals, correspondence, film tests, technical drawings, and more—from the museum’s Technicolor collections are available to search and browse.
Handmade Cinema
A site that lets you explore the world of artisanal moving image production by providing information on the practices and themes of a sampling of the field’s major figures. “Handmade Cinema” is designed for you to quickly glean the many connections between artists, their ideas, and the media they used.