Projections

Membership

The Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI)

SCSMI—Leading the study of how moving-image media shape and are shaped by human psychological activity

The Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI) is an interdisciplinary organization of scholars interested in cognitive, philosophical, aesthetic, neurophysiological, and evolutionary-psychological approaches to the analysis of film and other moving-image media.

Membership in SCSMI, including a print subscription and online access to Projections, is now directly handled by the association. Please visit the SCSMI website to join as a new member, to renew your membership, or to register for SCSMI annual meetings.

SCSMI members: For online access to Projections, please visit the SCSMI website and log in.

Members of SCSMI seek to understand, among other things, the ways these media arouse our senses, stir our emotions, and prod us to thought. They explore how conceptions of social organization and human nature find their way into films, television, video games, and online videos. Their research seeks to explain the power of movies over audiences, what popular films tell us about the ways our minds work, and how documentaries and avant-garde films engage us. How may media products bear the traces of social intelligence and evolved capacities? What philosophical issues are at stake in examining media from a psychological perspective? These are just some of the questions SCSMI members pursue in their own research, at SCSMI conferences, and in the pages of Projections. The gatherings are lively; the research articles are deeply informed and consistently provocative.

We invite all people interested in understanding media from a broadly cognitive perspective to join us in exploring the range and depth of the moving image.

Membership Information

Renew your SCSMI membership or join as a new member!

Regular annual membership fees are $80, with a student rate of $40.

Membership benefits of the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image include:

• Print subscription* with online access to Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind (winner of the 2008 Prose award for Best New Journal in the Humanities and Social Sciences). Once you've renewed your SCSMI membership, issues will be mailed to you as they release; for full online access to current and back issues, activate your access any time after you have renewed by visiting the SCSMI website and logging in.
• The opportunity to submit proposals to annual SCSMI conferences, which alternate between North American and European locations. All presenters at the annual meetings must be members of SCSMI;
• Reduced registration to the annual SCSMI conference;
• Regular e-mail newsletter with notices and information about professional issues of interest to scholars and students of film and media.

*Please note that as of 2012, SCSMI membership enrollment will be on anytime/rolling start basis with members receiving a print copy of the next available issue of Projections. Online access will include all previous issues in their electronic format for the duration of an active membership.