Fifth Issue

Open Access Issue

64.5, 2025

The Fifth Issue provides open access to JCMS research articles that go through our rigorous peer review process.


The Great Indian Road Trip: Picturing the Post-Colony in the Lost Travel Films of Warner Bros.

by Darshana Sreedhar Mini

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Geeton-Bhari-Kahani (Story-Full-of-Songs): Hindi Film Song Fanfiction on the Radio Airwaves, 1960–1979

by Isabel Huacuja Alonso

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Eadweard Muybridge’s Scenes of Settlement: The Modoc War Photographs

by Dylan Howell

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Considering a Phenomenology of Zoom

by Chiara Giovanni

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A24’s Academic Style; or, Coming of Age in an Era of Student Debt

by Jordan Brower

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Moving Stillness: Cinema, Temporality, and Life in Settler Capitalist Ruins

by Freya Schiwy

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Entrepreneurialism and the Return of the Bildungsroman: Mapping Racial Capitalism in Burhan Qurbani’s Berlin Alexanderplatz

by Rowan Melling

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A Sense of Security: The Visual Politics of COVID-19 Thermography

by Sasha Crawford-Holland

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Disinformation and the Informal Media Economy in Iran

by Blake Atwood

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