TY - JOUR
AU - Kuhn, Annette
AB - ANNETTE KUHN Screen can lay claim to at least three, and perhaps as many as five, birthdays. The journal’s beginnings may be dated first of all to the early 1950s, when an occasional mimeographed newsletter called The Film Teacher was launched under the banner of a newly formed membership 1 The first issue of The Film Teacher organization calling itself the Society of Film Teachers. The Film is dated 1952. Between that year Teacher was eventually to evolve into a periodical with a new name, with and around 1958, some seventeen the first issue under its present title, Screen, appearing early in 1969. issues of the newsletter appeared. However, we have chosen to mark the journal’s birth year as 1959, for this was when the society – now more grandly and inclusively renamed the Society for Education in Film and Television (SEFT) – published the first issue of a print journal that has appeared regularly, and without breaks, ever since: an impressive achievement in itself. No more than a pamphlet, the 1959 inaugural issue declared a concern with ‘the impact of the visual media upon the young’, with ‘our’ [that is, teachers’] role being to interpret these media, since 
TI - Screen and screen theorizing today
JF - Screen
DO - 10.1093/screen/hjp001
DA - 2009-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/screen-and-screen-theorizing-today-eqjLw0K7BX
SP - 1
EP - 12
VL - 50
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -