紐約大學

As a student in the Department of Cinema Studies, you will focus on the history, theory, and criticism of motion pictures and related media, examining cinema as both an art form and as a form of mass culture. Graduates of our program have gone on to successful careers in teaching, archival work, journalism, screenwriting, multimedia, network television, and filmmaking. You’ll spend your four years taking a mixture of courses in the Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch, and other schools at NYU.

Courses in the Department of Cinema Studies are divided into four tiers. Over your four years in the department, you’ll take a mixture of courses from each tier to complete the requirements for your major. Give a look at what courses are currently being offered.

TIER I

The core curriculum for Cinema Studies majors includes five courses taken in sequence: Intro to Cinema Studies, Film History, Film Theory, and Television: History & Culture, and an Advanced Seminar. Recent Advanced Seminar topics have included Adaptation, Costume Design, Horror, Sci-Fi & Difference, Orson Welles, and Surrealism and Cinema.

TIER II

Small lecture classes will give you the opportunity to delve into specific topics in the areas of film auteurs, genres, movements, national cinemas, television studies, and special topics. Course topics change each semester, so there’s always something new to learn. Recent topics have included American Film of the 1960s & 70s, Choreography and the Moving Image, Hitchcock, Korean Cinema, The Sitcom and Special Effects.

TIER III

Large lecture courses will give you a survey of American and international film history. Each fall, courses focus on cinema up to 1960. Each spring, courses focus on cinema from 1960 to the present.

TIER IV

Small theory/practice courses allow you to put your theoretical knowledge into practice in the areas of screenwriting, film criticism, and forms of filmmaking as well as other modes of moving image production such as new media.