Concept
Film studies
Overview
Film studies is an academic discipline that deals with various theoretical, historical, and critical approaches to cinema as an art form and a medium. It is sometimes subsumed within media studies and is often compared to television studies.
Film studies is less concerned with advancing proficiency in film production than it is with exploring the narrative, artistic, cultural, economic, and political implications of the cinema. In searching for these social-ideological values, film studies takes a series of critical approaches for the analysis of production, theoretical framework, context, and creation. Also, in studying film, possible careers include critic or production. Overall the study of film continues to grow, as does the industry on which it focuses.
Academic journals publishing film studies work include Sight and Sound, Film Comment, Film International, CineAction, Screen, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Film Quarterly, and Journal of Film and Video.
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During this course of study, part of the three unoccupied months of each year will be spent in public examinations, to test the degree to which the instruction has been assimilated. The pupils will of their own accord continue their esthetic pursuits, even supposing their natural tastes in this direction not to be encouraged as they ought to be.
Auguste Comte, A General View of Positivism Or, Summary exposition of the System of Thought and Life
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Related ideas
- Film theory
- Washington, D.C.
- Gilles Deleuze
- Analytic philosophy
- Slavoj Žižek
- Nazi Germany
- Film
- Los Angeles Times
- Continental philosophy
- William Shakespeare
- Amsterdam
- Hugo Münsterberg
- Edinburgh University Press
- Siegfried Kracauer
- André Bazin
- Noël Carroll
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Place in the tradition
Part of Philosophy of film.