"In a world where we interact daily with one screen after another-on our cell phones, televisions, laptops, and iPods, as well as at the multiplex and the art house-any consideration of 'art' and expressive culture has to take seriously the many forms of moving image media with which we now live."
Susan Courtney, Director and Professor of Film Studies
Interdisciplinary in its approach and broad in its scope, the Film Studies
program at Carolina invites students to develop a deeper and richer understanding
of moving image culture. Film Studies students draw on skills and perspectives
fostered by a range of academic disciplines, from literary studies to art, music,
psychology, history, sociology, anthropology, and political science, to build a
multi-faceted, critical understanding of moving image culture and the increasingly
media-saturated world in which we live.
First established as an undergraduate minor in 1996, the program has grown
tremendously ever since. Its growth has been fueled in part by several unique
opportunities and resources at Carolina, among them collaborations with the
University's outstanding Media Arts
program; the vast film and television archival collection of the University's
Newsfilm Library;
and the Nickelodeon Theater, Columbia's
vibrant and growing independent cinema, which is home to the
Indie Grits Film Festival.
As the Film Studies program has grown, so too has its impact on film culture
in the Columbia community. Through screenings of significant films new and old,
public lectures and discussions with renowned scholars, archivists and media makers,
and its commitment to nurturing the next generation of critically-engaged media
citizens, Film Studies has added diversity and excitement to the range of moving
image events in Columbia.
To learn more about Film Studies at Carolina, visit the
Film Studies program website.
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