Founded in 1993 in France, SERCIA (Société pour l'Enseignement et la Recherche du CInéma Anglophone) is a European academic society that promotes the study and teaching of cinema produced in English-speaking countries, as well as the growing number of English-language films produced worldwide. Equal attention is paid to mainstream, independent and experimental cinema, series and other audiovisual forms. We also encourage pluridisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity and welcome scholars working in aesthetics, cultural studies, film history, gender, queer and race studies, musicology, reception studies and other related fields. We aim to create an atmosphere that is at once friendly and scholarly, and are always happy to welcome new members, whether confirmed academics, PhD candidates or independent scholars. For more information about membership, click here.

A themed conference is organized every September and is followed by the publication of a collected volume and/or peer-reviewed journal issue. Recent conferences have been held in Arras, Bologna, Brest, Clermont-Ferrand, Paris, Växjö and Zaragoza. We have worked with such publishers as Artois Presses Universitaires, Bloomsbury, Corlet, McFarland, Mimesis International, Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, Presses Universitaires-François Rabelais and Routledge, and journals including Interfaces, Miranda and Motifs.

Organized by Andrea Virginàs, the 2025 conference will be held at Babes-Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca, Romania) from September 3-5 on the theme of Ageing and Ageism in English-language cinema and series.

SERCIA also has a peer-reviewed e-journal called Film Journal, which welcomes submissions by non-SERCIA members as well. Issue 9, “Screening the BoxScreening the Box,” edited by Nicole Cloarec and Sébastien Lefait, are out!

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