Cinema Studies
Cinema Studies is the study of moving images and screen cultures which centers on film, film experience, and phenomena surrounding films. Historically, it ranges from image cultures before film to the screens and digital platforms of today.
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This is where you study - in Filmhuset (The Film House) in Stockholm City. Movie theaters, film archives, library, lecture halls, restaurant and the Cinematek. All you need for a rewarding time as a student and an education in Cinema Studies. Foto: Ingmarie Andersson
Subject description
The field is broad and can be found at institutions around the world and is sometimes called Film Studies, Television Studies, Media Studies, Visual Arts, Cultural Studies, Film and Media History, and Moving Image Studies.
The objects of study can be specific films, production cultures, genre, auteurs, intermedia and trans-media relations, archives, circulation and distribution, reception (audience, critique), film culture, media industries, institutional frameworks (legal, political, economic), technological arrangements or streaming platforms.
Approaches and perspectives applied can be genre or narrative analysis, aesthetics, auteur criticism, reception studies, critique of filmic representations, post-colonial or gender perspectives, celebrity culture, or perspectives from political economy and cultural studies.
The field is informed by literature, history, philosophy, cultural studies, anthropology, linguistics, psychology, sociology, and economics. Cinema Studies at Stockholm University is focused on historical perspectives and key media moments of transformation, Ingmar Bergman, as well as contemporary film and mediascapes.
Career opportunities
Courses and programmes
Courses and programmes within the subject area.
Courses at bachelor's level
Current courses at bachelor's level
Courses at master's level
Current courses at master's level
Bachelor's programme
Master's programme
PhD studies
Of course you can become a PhD student with the Department of Media Studies. Then you will follow our doctoral program in Cinema Studies. Vacancies will be advertised via su.se.
PhD studies at the Department of Media Studies
Are you an international student with no education in the Swedish language?
You're in luck, we have several "Non-Swedish"- courses. All taught in English.
We have courses on BA-level (that means you don't have to have prior studies at universities) and MA-courses/MA-programme (requires usually a Bachelor's exam or at least several semesters on BA level.)
Degree
For a bachelor’s degree in Cinema Studies you can choose to study individual courses or join one of the bachelor’s programmes listed under Educations within the subject.
The bachelor’s degree in Cinema Studies is only offered in Swedish.
Learn more about Swedish language qualification
A master’s degree in Cinema Studies can only be obtained through enrolment in one of the master’s programmes listed under Educations within the subject.