Research

Film and Digital Media Research

Our graduate and undergraduate programs encourage our students to take a path towards creative research, scholarship, and critical practice. Students are able to take the theoretical and historical concepts and contexts of film and digital media and apply them to their coursework and creative work.

The curriculum for both programs is supported by faculty research in their respective fields. In addition to teaching courses, our faculty are also active artists and scholars that seek to further media study and critical thinking through their own creative and/or scholarly works. This type of work is done through the documentaries, publications, installations and exhibitions that they produce.

What is Film and Digital Media?

Taken from the Society of Cinema and Media Studies website:

“Over the course of the 20th century and into the 21st, cinema, television, and related media have become increasingly central both to individual lives and to the lives of peoples, groups, and nations. Sound and screen media have taken their place beside other crucial areas of human communication and creativity such as literature, music, art, and performance to form distinctive modes of expression, necessitating specialized analysis and criticism…. Cinema and Media Studies emphasize the cultural and historical importance of media and focus on the production, circulation, and reception of texts and representations, which are analyzed in terms of aesthetics, meanings, and uses.”