Kanbar Institute of Film and Television

Cinema Studies

Cinema is Everywhere. Cinema Studies students engage with the moving image in all of its forms, on all its platforms, across the world. They pay attention to the margins as well as the mainstream. They are constantly experimenting with exciting new forms of research and scholarship. They are critics, curators, and creators.

During their time here, Cinema Studies students will hone their critical voice, develop a trained eye and ear, and practice in-depth, careful analysis of moving images. NYU’s Cinema Studies Department was one of the first university departments in the country devoted to film history, theory, and aesthetics. Over time our focus has expanded to include broadcast television, video art, and digital media. After years of being steeped in an interdisciplinary, international approach, many alumni go on to careers in museum film departments, archives, and programming; journalism; or in the film industry as filmmakers, screenwriters, and editors.