PhD Film & Media at University of California, Berkeley

PhD in Film and Media Students in the Film and Media PhD are encouraged to situate moving images within the larger theoretical and analytical frameworks of a range of other disciplines. They integrate the traditions of history, law, literature, cultural studies, gender studies, and political theory to the newer disciplines of film studies and digital media, applying the tools of post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, new historicism, media archaeology, Frankfurt School, feminist theory, queer theory, post-colonialism, and critical race theory.

Faculty: Graduate Division  |  Department: Film and Media  |  Duration: 6 years  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Berkeley, CA, United States

What you will study

Curriculum Course List Code Title Units FILM 200 Graduate Film Theory Seminar 4 FILM 201 Graduate Film Historiography 4 FILM 203 Film Studies Proseminar 2-4 Film Electives: Graduate seminars (4 courses) 16 Outside Field Electives (2 courses) 8

Career pathways

Graduates enter career areas including Arts & Entertainment, Communications.

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