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Use this form to submit a research article to JCMS for peer review. Other types of submissions (book reviews, In Focus proposals, Teaching Media essays, etc.) should *not* be submitted here. Please submit that material to the relevant editors directly. Submission information is at https://jcmsjournal.org/guidelines. JCMS (formerly Cinema Journal) is published by Michigan Publishing in cooperation with the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, and is always interested in exciting new work in the fields of cinema and media studies. JCMS is open to all areas of humanities-oriented scholarship in media studies. We welcome submissions on film, television, radio, sound, and digital media. Considered one of the top journals in media studies, our acceptance rate is about 15 percent. Before submitting your manuscript, please be sure to consult our submission guidelines at https://jcmsjournal.org/guidelines. Manuscripts that do not meet the requirements detailed there will be desk rejected (not sent out for peer review). Do not submit anything other than research articles through this form. Required fields are indicated by a red asterisk.

Corresponding Author's full name
If you do not have affiliation, please enter "unaffiliated". We use this for conflict-of-interest checks with potential reviewers, but all publication decisions are made anonymously using double-anonymized peer review.
Corresponding Author's email address
If there are additional authors, please enter their names and institutional affiliations here.
Author Bio(s)
Please provide a brief bio for each author, of 25–40 words. We use this for our conflict-of-interest checks.
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Abstract
Please enter an informative abstract of 100 words or less.


Manuscript
Please attach the manuscript. It should be: formatted according to the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th ed.; 8,000–10,000 words; in an MS Word file (.doc, .docx). We do not accept manuscripts in formats other than MS Word. In addition, you may also include up to 6 images. Please embed them in the Word document and upload them as image files (.jpg or .tiff), with a minimum resolution of 300dpi. This is not obligatory: you will have an opportunity to provide figures later, if your article is accepted. All submitted files (including images) should be anonymized, including file names.
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Submission Type
Please select whether this is an Open Submission (regular submission) to JCMS or whether you have been working with the Associate Editors of Outreach and Equity on this article as part of the JCMS Publishing Initiative. To learn more about the JCMS Publishing Initiative, please visit this link: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/about#initiative.
Academic Integrity
By checking this box, you affirm that you have read, understood, and agree to JCMS's policy on academic integrity, available at https://jcmsjournal.org/integrity.
Exclusive Submission
This manuscript has NOT been previously published NOR is currently or will be submitted for review elsewhere while under consideration by JCMS. Please see the JCMS submission guidelines for more information: https://github.com/jcmsjournal/editorial/wiki/Submission-guidelines
Image Guidelines and Permissions
JCMS can publish up to six images (illustrations, screenshots, etc.) in an article, abiding by specific requirements for the quality and composition of these images. Please consult https://github.com/jcmsjournal/editorial/wiki/Style-guide#images Authors are responsible for securing permissions to be able to print their images. Documentation of permissions for all images to be used will be due three months from when authors receive communication that their submission has been accepted for publication in JCMS. Please consult https://www.press.umich.edu/authors/perms By checking this box, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to both JCMS's guidelines for images (https://github.com/jcmsjournal/editorial/wiki/Style-guide#images) as well as Michigan Publishing's permissions requirements for image publishing (https://www.press.umich.edu/authors/perms).

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