MA in Film and Media Studies | School of the Arts

The Master’s Program in Film and Media Studies at Columbia takes up the evolution of cinema as an art, an institution, an object of philosophical study, and an international socio-cultural phenomenon. Recently renamed to emphasize both motion picture film and the newest of new media, the program facilitates exploration from the one to the other and back. It is designed to consider current theoretical approaches and to look historiographically at trends such as the transition from motion picture film to digital media. MA in Film and Media Studies students elect to concentrate in either the Cinema/Media or Emergent Media. The Cinema/Media track focuses on history, theory, and critical approaches to the study of cinema and media. This includes an introduction to historiography and the study of film style, genre, auteurs, silent and sound cinemas, the avant-garde, national cinemas, the political economy of world cinema, the transition from photochemical film to digital, and film and digita

The Master’s Program in Film and Media Studies at Columbia takes up the evolution of cinema as an art, an institution, an object of philosophical study, and an international socio-cultural phenomenon. Recently renamed to emphasize both motion picture film and the newest of new media, the program facilitates exploration from the one to the other and back. It is designed to consider current theoretical approaches and to look historiographically at trends such as the transition from motion picture film to digital media. MA in Film and Media Studies students elect to concentrate in either the Cine