Film and Media Studies

While the graduate core focuses on history, theory, and critical analysis, the MA-PhD program nurtures innovative research projects with an eye to the future of the field. The Department of Film and Media Studies at UC Santa Barbara is one of the leading international centers for education and research in the discipline. The research of our distinguished faculty, which has helped define the discipline over time, is currently shaping new sub-fields around artificial intelligence, environmental media, media industry and policy, risk and media, data visualization, sound studies, and global and emergent media.

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