Bright Lights Film Journal

Bright Lights Film Journal is an online popular-academic film magazine, based in Oakland, California, United States. It is edited and published by Gary Morris.

Bright Lights Film Journal

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Categories	Film
Frequency	Quarterly
Publisher	Gary Morris and Gregory Battle
Founded	1974; 51 years ago (1974)
Final issue	1995 (print)
Country	United States
Website	brightlightsfilm.com
ISSN	0147-4049

Originally a print publication established in 1974, it was discontinued in 1980 to be restarted and re-discontinued in 1993, and 1995 respectively. The magazine moved to online publishing exclusively in 1996 and has continued publication ever since. It is indexed in academic research databases such as MLA (Modern Language Association) ProQuest^{[citation needed]} and the Film and Television Literature Index.^[1]

In 2009, select interviews from the journal were compiled in a print anthology, Action!: Interviews with Directors from Classical Hollywood to Contemporary Iran, published by Anthem Press as part of its "New Perspectives on World Cinema" series.^[2]

See also

• Senses of Cinema
• The Moving Arts Film Journal
• List of film periodicals