How our program prepares you for the field

The Film Studies major is an interdisciplinary program with courses in English, art, broadcasting, philosophy, communication studies and music which focus directly or implicitly on the critical, historical and theoretical discipline of the cinema.

Study the history, theory, and criticism of film from a rigorous perspective with some of the leading scholars in the field, covering a wide range of approaches to the cinema. The program is aimed at undergraduates planning to go on to a career within critical/archival/academic disciplines, or to graduate study in film history, theory, criticism and production at other institutions.

Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center A comprehensive library of classic films in original format ranging from the 1900s to the present Faculty actively publishing and editing film-related books and periodicals State-of-the-art facilities for showing films Classes structured around analytical screenings of classic and contemporary films The journal Quarterly Review of Film and Video, one of the top journals in the field, edited by Wheeler Winston Dixon and Gwendolyn Foster

You should be able to write carefully reasoned, well-researched papers on film history, theory and criticism, using the facilities of Love Library, which has an extensive collection of film books and film study DVDs for you to use.