Clusters in Film and Media Studies
The Program offers a variety of clusters in film and media studies. The Film and Media Studies Program has 11 approved clusters. students may propose their own individualized clusters, but if they wish to modify a program cluster they should discuss their ideas with the undergraduate adviser in the program of the cluster.
THE ART OF FILM
This cluster acquaints students with basic techniques of film
analysis and with the development of cinema as an art form and
a technology.
MEDIA STUDIES
This cluster focuses on the history, theory, and analysis of
visual and electronic media and the cultures they help to produce.
FILM HISTORY
This cluster allows the student to explore the general evolution
of cinematic form, while encouraging more specific historical
focus on a tradition, genre or a region.
FILM AND MEDIA THEORY
The cluster provides training in theories of cinema and media;
allows students to explore in depth crucial theoretical debates
concerning film and media in their social context.
FEMINISM, GENDER, AND FILM
This cluster offers the study of gender representations in film
from a feminist perspective. Its focus includes instruction in
various feminist theories and methodologies for the study of
film, and explores the centrality of feminist work to the history
of film theory.
PRODUCTION
This cluster is designed for the student whose primary interests
and goals lie in studio work - film or video production, photography
or computer graphics. Students may combine a specialization in
one medium with training an allied medium, or in critical approaches
to their chosen medium.
REPRESENTATION AND SOCIAL DIFFERENCE IN THE CINEMA
This cluster links the study of cinematic representations with
social difference, identity formation, and political traditions.
it allows students to examine and analyze social and cultural
difference as they are represented and reproduced or transformed
in cinema, and as they affect the shape of cinema, and as they
affect the shape of cinematic traditions and industries.
REPRESENTATIONS OF RACE AND ETHNICITY
This cluster is designed for those students who want to pursue
a critical exploration of the various and competing ways that
race, ethnicity, and social difference in general are represented
in popular as well as canonical texts and images. It allows a
student to focus on one tradition or context, like, for example,
African-American culture, or to employ a more comparative model
that would highlight cross-cultural difference in the way something
like "race" is imagined and represented.
FILM AND NARRATIVE
This cluster is designed for students with a literary background
who wish to enhance their understanding of narrative forms and
strategies; it emphasizes close reading, narrative analysis,
and relations between visual and textual representation. Students
are expected to study film and literature drawn from the same
cultural tradition.
CULTURAL STUDIES AND TECHNOLOGY
This cluster is designed for the student who wishes to study
relations among contemporary technologies and their impact upon
our thinking about knowledge, communication, information, production,
consumption, communities, and social relations.
CINEMA AND CULTURAL STUDIES
This cluster studies film and media in a critical cultural context.
Its interdisciplinary nature is designed to highlight the reciprocal
influence between film and media theory and cultural studies.
For completer listings and descriptions of Film and Media Studies Clusters please click on the following registrar website link
http://www.rochester.edu/College/CCAS/clusters/
Cluster Directory
Film and Media Studies