The world is awash in moving images, shot on cell phones and mammoth sound stages, accumulating in vast archives on the internet and in climate-controlled vaults, images of nearly everything from everywhere –evanescent home movies, artistic masterworks, guilty pleasures, and essential documents. Film and Media Studies gives students the tools necessary to grapple with the decisive media of the past 100 years – from film to television to the platform-agnostic digital images of today. That...
The Filmmaking program offers a professional degree that prepares graduates for careers in film, television, and media. Students learn narrative filmmaking through a comprehensive curriculum including film production, screenwriting, cinematography, directing, producing, entertainment law, and film marketing and distribution. The working industry today values students with a variety of skills. Woodbury’s location, within just a few miles of many major entertainment studios, provides students...
Administered through the Department of Theatre and Communication Arts, Film Studies at Whittier College is an interdisciplinary minor, emphasizing the analysis of film as an artistic form and a key media component in the multiple expressions of contemporary life.
Degrees Offered
4 Year BA
4 Year BFA
Concentrations
Film & Television Production
Film Studies
Screenwriting
Tuition Range
$40k to $50k
Undergraduate Deadlines
Spring: October 15
Fall Early Action: November 15
Fall Regular Decision: February 1
At Western, we start with the story. Storytelling is the basic skill that ties all the others together. And that is what the most successful filmmakers have in common. From screenplay through post-production, fiction or non-fiction, we use technology in service of story.
Wesleyan University has long been a leader in undergraduate Film Studies. Since the 1960s, scholars in both the humanities and the social sciences have recognized cinema as the most important of the new forms of art developed in the 20th century--one which has had a profound and pervasive effect on all of modern culture. The growth of Film Studies as an academic discipline testifies to the importance of examining film not just as a cultural artifact, but also as an influential art form and...
For students who dream of making movies, the Film Production degree program at Webster University provides the knowledge and skills needed to tell their stories.
Film Production majors and minors learn how the people, concepts and technology work together to create a movie. In addition to learning the role of each person on a film set, students study a variety of films to gain production knowledge. The Film Production program offers a systematic and thorough approach in learning the craft...
Do you love films your friends really hate? Do you know the difference between Bergman and Bertolucci? Do you make notes most days of dialogue, locations and situations for screenplays? Do you like learning about more than just movies? You could be an ideal student for the VCUarts Cinema degree.
Our program emphasizes academic excellence, professionalism, teamwork and performance oriented productions; we are storytellers and artists. This undergraduate degree introduces students to a broad...
We approach film as a modern aesthetic form and hands-on cultural practice. Our interdisciplinary curriculum combines filmmaking with the study of media theory and global film history. Courses cover diverse international cultures as well as critical and creative practices, including training in both 16mm and digital cinematography and production in fiction, experimental, and documentary modes. We encourage our majors to create work outside of the classroom and to submit senior projects to...
For more than 90 years, the University of Southern California has trained the next generation of prolific filmmakers. As the nation's first institution of higher learning to offer a bachelor's degree in film, the School of Cinematic Arts remains at the forefront of emerging filmmaking trends. USC SCA is among Filmschool.org’s top 10 undergraduate film schools and runner-up for Best Directing Program. In 2023, The Hollywood Reporter moved USC SCA up to no. 2 on its annual list of the top 25...
Summer Program classes are taught by leading industry professionals during two separate six-week sessions. Spend time on our state of-the-art campus taking classes focused on feature filmmaking, editing, animation, writing, computer graphics, interactive game design, and the business of the industry, among many others. Besides having access to the School's unparalleled facilities and equipment, Summer Program students will have many unique opportunities. Several classes take place on major...
Our interdisciplinary graduate program is committed to the intensive and rigorous production of creative time-based art. Non-commercial in spirit, we encourage works that demonstrate a personal commitment to the art of media making. It is the goal of the program to assist each graduate student in completing a number of accomplished works rooted in a developed sense of community, culture, and self.
Film, Video, Animation and New Genres at UW-Milwaukee earned recognition as one of Hollywood Reporter’s “Top 25 American Film Schools” and Variety’s “Best Film Schools” in 2017, 2018, and 2019 because of the program’s deep commitment to transforming students into expressive filmmakers with a mastery of creative, conceptual and technical skills. With dual focus on both the theoretical and practical worlds of filmmaking, our program provides students with the flexibility to explore all aspects...
Our two-year master’s program prepares students for advanced work in Cinema and Media Studies, or for careers in teaching at the elementary, secondary, or junior college levels. In addition, M.A. students will emerge with:
) an interdisciplinary understanding of the field from a humanistic perspective;
) awareness of the relationship between their scholarly practice and the communities in which we live;
) basic reading knowledge in at least one language other than English;
) the ability...
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