Screen is a journal of film

Film studies

Film studies is an academic discipline that deals with various theoretical, historical, and critical approaches to films. It is sometimes subsumed within media studies and is often compared to television studies...

 and television studies

Television studies

Television studies is an academic discipline that deals with critical approaches to television. Usually, it is distinguished from mass-communication research, which tends to approach the topic from an empirical perspective...

 based at the John Logie Baird

John Logie Baird

John Logie Baird FRSE was a Scottish engineer and inventor of the world's first practical, publicly demonstrated television system, and also the world's first fully electronic colour television tube...

 Centre at the University of Glasgow

University of Glasgow

The University of Glasgow is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities. Located in Glasgow, the university was founded in 1451 and is presently one of seventeen British higher education institutions ranked amongst the top 100 of the...

 and published by Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press

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. It is co-edited by John Caughie

John Caughie

John Caughie is a British academic, specialising in film and television studies. Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow, his books include Theories of Authorship, A Companion to British and Irish Cinema and Television Drama: Realism, Modernism, and British Culture...

, Alan Durant, Simon Frith

Simon Frith

Simon Frith is a British sociologist, and former rock critic, who specializes in popular music culture. He is currently Tovey Chair of Music at University of Edinburgh.-Background:...

, Sandra Kemp

Sandra Kemp

Professor Sandra Kemp is Head of College at the London College of Communication , one of the six constituent colleges of the University of the Arts London. She was appointed in 2008.-Education:She has a BA and DPhil from the University of Oxford...

, Norman King

Norman King

Norman James King was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party, and a cabinet minister.He represented the Waitemata electorate from 1954 to 1969, and then the Birkenhead electorate from 1969 to 1975, when he was defeated by Jim McLay.In 1957 he had defeated Rob Muldoon in his second attempt...

, and Annette Kuhn.

History

Screen originated in the Society of Film Teachers' journal, The Film Teacher in 1952. Soon after, SFT became the Society for Education in Film and Television and its journal changed its name to Screen Education. Screen Education evolved into Screen in 1969, although a separate journal titled Screen Education was also published.

During the 1970s, Screen was particularly influential in the nascent field of film studies

Film studies

Film studies is an academic discipline that deals with various theoretical, historical, and critical approaches to films. It is sometimes subsumed within media studies and is often compared to television studies...

. It published many articles that have become standards in the field—including Laura Mulvey

Laura Mulvey

Laura Mulvey is a British feminist film theorist. She was educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She is currently professor of film and media studies at Birkbeck, University of London...

's seminal work, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" (1975). It is still highly regarded in academic circles.