Film Studies Postgraduate Study
The postgraduate coursework program in Film Studies offers the opportunity to develop your critical, historical and practical understanding of film. It will be of interest to those students seeking careers in the various film and film culture industries through to those students wishing to pursue more advanced academic study. Students are able to study the history of cinema, film theory and criticism, film aesthetics and style, as well as the relationship between film and other disciplines.
Students are also able to undertake a range of practically orientated film and screen arts courses at AFTRS (the Australian Film Television and Radio School). Undertaking courses at AFTRS, Australia’s national screen arts and broadcast school, provides students with the opportunity to combine the practical and creative aspects of film production with the more historical and critical awareness of film developed in other areas of the program. Courses at AFTRS are usually offered in intensive mode and often between semesters. Please contact the Postgraduate Coordinator of the Film Studies program for more detailed information on this. AFTRS new location at The Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park, near to the University of Sydney, gives students the ability to access the many extra-curricular events and activities offered by both institutions. Visit the AFTRS website.
Students will also be able to study film and film culture from different ethnic regions and its place in those regions. Film is a global form, and this is reflected in the ambitions of the program. Courses in Film Studies also take into account the changing nature and form of the film image, and recognise that film is now a significant presence (as art object or archival object) in art galleries and museums, and that it intersects with television and other media and communications images.
There are three Postgraduate levels of study:
