Film studies is an academic discipline that deals with theoretical, historical, and critical approaches to the cinema. It is sometimes subsumed within media studies and is closely allied with television studies.

In the US and the UK, film-studies programs began to appear in the 1950s and then grew in popularity and influence in the 1960s.

Academic journals publishing film-studies work include Screen, Cinema Journal and the Journal of Film and Video.

[edit] Further reading

• Dana Polan, Scenes of Instruction: The Beginnings of the U.S. Study of Film (UC Press, 2007)

[edit] External links

• Screensite listing of college film programs