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Films evoke emotions and spark conversations: good or bad. And as a film studies major, you’ll explore similar questions and dive deeper. You’ll examine a film’s historical, sociological, and anthropological links. You’ll study film history, storytelling, aesthetics, and analysis.
Upon graduation, you’ll be equipped to apply your skills in film, television, media analysis, history and writing. You can become a specialist in media policy, strategy, research, marketing, social media and branding. What internships and resources are available through this film and media studies program?
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NYU’s Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies was one of the first university departments in the country devoted to film history, theory, and aesthetics. Over time our focus has expanded to include broadcast television, video art, and digital media.
Columbia University has the distinction of being the first university in the United States to recognize the importance of Film Studies as an academic discipline, back when Victor Freeburg launched the Photoplay Composition class in 1915.
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- San Francisco State University. B.A. in Cinema, M.A. in Cinema Studies. The B.A. in Cinema at SFSU trains students in the critical analysis of film as well as the fundamentals of media production, including animation, filmmaking and screenwriting.
- University of California, Berkeley. B.A. in Film & Media, Film & Media Ph.D. UC Berkeley’s B.A. in Film & Media focuses on the deep scholarly study of film history, theory and criticism across cultures.
- Northwestern University – School of Communication. B.A. in Radio/Television/Film, M.A. in Sound Arts and Industries, Screen Cultures Ph.D. The B.A. in Radio/Television/Film from Northwestern University is another program that balances film production with critical analysis.
- University of California, Los Angeles. Film and Television B.A., Cinema and Media Studies M.A., Cinema and Media Studies Ph.D. For those who want to be closer to Hollywood, UCLA offers a B.A.
The core curriculum for Cinema Studies majors includes five courses taken in sequence: Intro to Cinema Studies, Film History, Film Theory, Television: History & Culture, and an Advanced Seminar. Recent Advanced Seminar topics have included Adaptation, Costume Design, Horror, Sci-Fi & Difference, Orson Welles, and Surrealism and Cinema. Tier II.
Film History. Sarah Lawrence students approach film, first and foremost, as an art. The College’s film-history courses take social, cultural, and historical contexts into account—but films themselves are the focus of study and discussion.
