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Film Studies

53 Wall, 432.0152

Co-Chairs
Dudley Andrew (Comparative Literature; Film Studies) (dudley.andrew@yale.edu)
Charles Musser (American Studies; Film Studies) (charles.musser@yale.edu)

Professors
Dudley Andrew, Hazel Carby (African American Studies; American Studies), Katerina Clark (Comparative Literature), Michael Denning (American Studies), John Mack Faragher (History), Benjamin Harshav (Comparative Literature), Christopher L. Miller (French), Charles Musser, Brigitte Peucker (Germanic Languages & Literatures; Film Studies), Joseph Roach (English; Theater Studies), Michael Roemer (American Studies), John Szwed (American Studies; Anthropology), Alan Trachtenberg (American Studies)

Associate Professors
Joshua Gamson (Sociology; American Studies), Laura Wexler (American Studies; Women's & Gender Studies)

Assistant Professors
John MacKay (Slavic Languages & Literatures), Kristin Phillips (Italian), Noa Steimatsky (History of Art; Film Studies)

Film Studies is an interdisciplinary field drawing on the study of the history of art, national cultures and literatures, literary theory, philosophy, sociology, and other areas. Although there is no advanced degree in Film Studies, there is an active undergraduate program, and a number of graduate classes are offered each year. Students are welcome in undergraduate seminars, space permitting. A number of departments offer the possibility of developing Film Studies as an area of concentration for an advanced degree, including American Studies, English Language & Literature, History of Art, French, Germanic Languages & Literatures, Italian Language & Literature, and Comparative Literature. Interested students should apply directly to these departments. The directors of the Film Studies Program and the Film Studies Committee can assist graduate students in designing a balanced and coordinated curriculum.

Graduate students who wish to develop a concentration in Film Studies are urged to take the following course offered by the American Studies Program:

AMST 814a, Problems in Film History. Charles Musser.
See description under American Studies.

This alternates with the other core Film Studies graduate course, CPLT 916a, Films and Their Study, which will be next taught in fall 2002. There is no course of study in film production at the graduate level.

The Yale Film Study Center is an important resource for graduate study and research. The Film Study Center maintains an archive of 4,000 classic American and European films as well as a number of special print and video collections.

Program materials are available on request to the director of graduate studies of the department of intended specialization, or to the co-chairs, Yale Film Studies Program, 53 Wall Street, New Haven CT 06511.

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