Bachelor of Arts - Film and Media Studies

Film and Media Studies offers a grounding in the analysis of film, television and new media such as the Internet.

It can be combined with other subjects such as Communication Studies, Visual Culture, English, History, Gender and Women's Studies, Theatre Studies, Design Studies, Marketing and Psychology.

Students have access to resources through an audio-visual study centre in the Central Library, and a venue in which film prints brought from within and beyond New Zealand, are displayed in theatrical conditions.

Papers cover a historical survey of film and television; contemporary issues in the media; film genres; New Zealand film, culture, politics and the global media; national cinemas; television studies; digital culture.

Graduates work in filmmaking, television, journalism, teaching, advertising, government institutions, archival and curatorial work and some pursue further postgraduate studies.

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