Cinema Studies

In Cinema Studies, you will examine a full range of topics that cover the diversity of World Cinema and cinematic aesthetic practices. The program’s mission is to educate students in the diversity of cinematic practices, and in their historical and contemporary formats. We aim to provide a supportive environment in which you can discuss the role that moving pictures play in various societies, and how they mediate our perceptions of the world. You’ll also gain insight into the workings of global film industries and how commercial and industrial contexts shape film art. This provides transferable knowledge and skills that extend beyond just analyzing film texts.|The Visual Resource Centre has total holdings of more than 400,000 35mm photographic slides, videos, films, DVDs, and a growing database of 35,000 digital images. Eight viewing stations and a screening room are available to view material.

The Centre for Cinema Studies is a research unit within the Department of Theatre and Film that instigates first-class research into film and film audiences. It brings together the expertise of every film-related course taught at UBC and invites visiting scholars from all over the world, most recently from Korea, Germany, the Czech Republic, and the United Kingdom.

Since 2005, the graduate students in the MA program have edited the journal Cinephile, providing opportunities for students to be on an editorial board and to see their best work published. Recent guest faculty include essays from Slavoj Žižek and Barry Keith Grant.