Program Recognition
•BA in Studies in Cinema and Media Culture (SCMC), housed in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature — no audition required; emphasizes the cultural, historical, and theoretical study of cinema over production
•Explicitly interdisciplinary: core SCMC courses combine with credit from Art, English, Communication Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Gender/Women's/Sexuality Studies, and Journalism
Training
•Named cinema/media faculty include Professor Cesare Casarino (philosophy, cinema, queer theory), Professor Maggie D. Hennefeld (silent cinema, film history and theory), Associate Professor Charles Kronengold (film and audiovisual media, aesthetics), Professor Alice Lovejoy (film history, nonfiction and experimental film, East Central European film), and Senior Lecturer/Film Studies Coordinator Graeme Stout (film, television, video games, and digital media)