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Film Studies Area

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Film as a Focus Area for English Majors

English majors can choose film studies as the focus area of their major programs. To complete this requirement, students must complete three 5-credit upper-division film courses (i.e., courses that are 500-level and above), which can include upper-division courses in other departments. Departments regularly offering upper-division film courses include History of Art, Comparative Studies, French, and the Department of German Languages and Literatures.

Courses

Core film classes

English 263: Introduction to Film
This course provides students with methods of reading film texts by analyzing cinema as technique, as system, and as cultural product.
English 378: Literature and Film
This course takes a comparative approach to adaptations and other relationships between literary and cinematic texts.
English 578: Studies in Film
This upper-division course examines a particular problem, theme, filmmaker, genre, or movement in cinema or in relationships between cinema and other genres: for example, melodrama, the evolution of a genre, postmodern aesthetics. It can be repeated once for credit because the topic varies each time it is offered.
English 778: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Film
An introduction to the methodologies, contexts, and development of contemporary film theory, including methodologies of formal analysis of cinematic texts.
English 878: Seminar in Film Studies
An advanced graduate seminar in film studies.

Media studies classes of potential interest to film students

English 264: Introduction to Reading Popular Culture
English 364: Special Topics in Reading Popular Culture
English 569: Digital Media and English Studies

English Faculty

Interdisciplinary Major and Minor in Film Studies

For information about the opportunities to do cross-disciplinary work in Film Studies at OSU, visit the Film Studies Web site, which also provides a comprehensive course-listings for film studies across the University.

Faculty in Other Departments Working in Film

Web Resources

Journals That Publish Articles in Film Studies

  • Asian Cinema -- We are an international group of academics, scholars, filmmakers and film enthusiasts who have come together to give voice to an interest in Asian Cinema.
  • Bright Lights -- Film journal, features, articles and commentaries.
  • Camera Obscura -- Since its inception, Camera Obscura has devoted itself to providing innovative feminist perspectives on film, television, and visual media.
  • CineAction!
  • Cineaste -- Quarterly publication focusing on both the art and politics of American cinema.
  • Cinefantastique -- CFQ/Cinefantastique has been providing the best coverage of genre entertainment for over 35 years. Each issue of CFQ features in-depth coverage of your favorite sci-fi, fantasy and horror films, TV, DVDs, games, toys, books, comics and more.
  • Cinema Journal -- Cinema Journal is sponsored by the Society for Cinema Studies and presents recent scholarship by SCS members.
  • Continuum -- Continuum is a thematically-based cultural studies Australian journal.
  • Critical Inquiry -- Critical Inquiry On-line Journal
  • Discourse -- Discourse explores a variety of topics in contemporary cultural studies, theories of media and literature, and the politics of sexuality, including questions of language and psychoanalysis.
  • Film and History -- Film & History is concerned with the impact of motion pictures on our society. Also, unlike many other journals, Film & History focuses on how feature films and documentary films both represent and interpret history.
  • Film Comment -- America's pre-eminent film presentation organization, The Film Society of Lincoln Center was founded in 1969 to celebrate American and international cinema, to recognize and support new filmmakers, and to enhance awareness, accessibility and understanding of the art among a broad and diverse film going audience.
  • Film History -- A commercial Web site devoted to a list of books in Media, Animation, Early Cinema and Popular Music Culture published by John Libbey Publishing.
  • Film International -- Promoting Intellectural Film Culture Since 1973.
  • Film Quarterly -- Available for purchase or review.
  • Filmfax -- Filmfax is the magazine of film and unusual television. In every issue, you'll find interviews and features on horror, science-fiction, and B-movies from the silent era through the 1970s.
  • Flow -- Flow is an online journal of television and media studies conceived by Christopher Lucas and Avi Santo and launched in October 2004. Flow's mission is to provide a space where researchers, teachers, students, and the public can read about and discuss the changing landscape of contemporary media at the speed that media moves.
  • Genders -- Presenting Innovative Work in the Arts, Humanities and Social Theories. We publish essays about gender and sexuality in relation to social, political, artistic and economic concerns.
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  • Images -- Online journal.
  • Indiewire -- the leading source on independent film since 1996.
  • Journal of Film and Video -- Publication and issue information.
  • Journal of Popular Culture -- The Journal of Popular Culture continues to break down the barriers between so-called "low" and "high" culture and focuses on filling in the gaps a neglect of popular culture has left in our understanding of the workings of society.
  • Journal of Popular Film and Television -- Publication and issue information.
  • Jump Cut -- Looking at media in its social and political context. Pioneers since 1974, analyzing media in relation to class, race, and gender
  • Kinema -- ESTABLISHED in 1993 at the University of Waterloo, Department of Fine Arts (Film Studies), the semi-annual KINEMA publishes articles, critiques of film and media literature. It also reports on international film festivals, conferences and other important events. The journal's aim is to promote the discussion of history, theory and aesthetics of film and audiovisual media from an international perspective. KINEMA is listed in Ulrich's, Oxbridge and other major periodical directories.
  • Literature/Film Quarterly -- The International Journal of Adaptation Studies - Established 1973.
  • Millennium Film Journal -- Since 1978 the Millennium Film Journal has published articles about independent, experimental, and avant-garde cinema, video, and, more recently, works that use the newer technologies.
  • New Orleans Review -- New Orleans Review, an international journal of contemporary poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, photography, film, and book reviews, founded in 1968 at Loyola University in New Orleans.
  • October -- Online journal.
  • Offscreen -- http://www.horschamp.qc.ca/offscreen/
  • Postmodern Culture -- Founded in 1990 as a groundbreaking experiment in scholarly publishing on the Internet, Postmodern Culture has become a leading electronic journal of interdisciplinary thought on contemporary culture. PMC offers a forum for commentary, criticism, and theory on subjects ranging from identity politics to the economics of information.
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  • POV -- a Danish journal of film studies.
  • Quarterly Review of Film and Video -- Publication aind subscription information.
  • Screen -- Screen is the leading international journal of academic film and television studies. From video art to popular television, from Hollywood to Hong Kong, from art cinema to British film finance, Screen authors cover a wide range of issues, both contemporary and historical, from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Each quarterly issue combines substantial scholarly essays with reports and debates on conferences and current research, along with book reviews.
  • Senses of Cinema -- Senses of Cinema is an online journal devoted to the serious and eclectic discussion of cinema. We believe cinema is an art that can take many forms, from the industrially-produced blockbuster to the hand-crafted experimental work; we also aim to encourage awareness of the histories of such diverse forms.
  • Sight and Sound -- Publication and issue information.
  • South Atlantic Quarterly -- Founded amid controversy in 1901, the South Atlantic Quarterly continues to cover the beat, center and fringe, with bold analyses of the current scene--national, cultural, intellectual--worldwide. Now published exclusively in special issues, this vanguard centenarian journal is tackling embattled states, evaluating postmodernity's influential writers and intellectuals, and examining a wide range of cultural phenomena.
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  • Velvet Light Trap -- VLT is collectively edited by graduate students at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and The University of Texas at Austin, with the support of media scholars at those institutions and throughout the country. Each issue provokes debate about critical, theoretical, and historical topics relating to a particular theme.
  • Vertigo-- For worldwide independent film.
  • Wide Angle -- Wide Angle presents some of today's foremost scholarship in film studies and examines a variety of topics ranging from international cinema to the history and aesthetics of film. Each issue concentrates on a single topic and offers extensively illustrated articles, interviews with prominent filmmakers, and reviews of recent books in the field. The journal's unique thematic approach is well-suited to course work, facilitating assigned reading and classroom discussion on particular film subjects.
  • Yale Journal of Criticism -- The Yale Journal of Criticism publishes works of interest to readers in the humanities, irrespective of field or period, including scholarly articles, original art, review essays, polemical interventions, and conference and symposium papers. The journal engages in current methodological debates in literature, history, philosophy, popular culture, and the visual arts. Work from the YJC has appeared in Best American Essays.

Organizations Devoted to Film Studies

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