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Cinema Studies


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Faculty Affiliation

Arts and Science

Degree Programs Offered

Cinema Studies – MA

Collaborative Programs

The following collaborative programs are available to students in participating degree programs as listed below:

1. Diaspora and Transnational Studies

  • Cinema Studies, MA

2. Sexual Diversity Studies

  • Cinema Studies, MA

3. Women and Gender Studies

  • Cinema Studies, MA

Overview

The Cinema Studies Institute offers a program leading to the Master of Arts degree in Cinema Studies. Our faculty have expertise in several areas, including film history, film theory, and film and culture.

Contact and Address

Web: www.utoronto.ca/cinema
Email: gradcinema.studies@utoronto.ca
Telephone: (416) 978-5809
Fax: (416) 946-0168

Cinema Studies Institute
University of Toronto
Innis College
2 Sussex Avenue
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1J5
Canada

Degree Programs

Cinema Studies

Master of Arts

Minimum Admission Requirements
  • Successful completion of an appropriate bachelor's degree.
  • Minimum B+ standing, demonstrated by an average grade in the final year, or over senior courses.
  • Successful completion of a minimum of 6.0 full-course equivalents (FCEs) in cinema studies, or comparable program preparation.
  • A letter of intent addressing the academic goals an applicant wishes to pursue in the program, three letters of recommendation, transcripts from all post-secondary institutions, and an academic writing sample of no more than 3,000 words.
Program Requirements
  • The MA is a coursework-only program and therefore does not require a thesis.
  • 4.0 FCEs over the course of an academic year, normally extending from September until August. Of the 4.0 FCEs:
    • 1.5 FCEs will be mandatory, core courses under the CIN rubric.
    • 1.0 FCE will be devoted to either the writing of a major research paper (CIN 1006Y) or pursuing an internship (CIN 1007Y). The internship option also entails writing a paper based on the learning or research experience gained from the internship.
    • 1.5 FCEs may be completed in the following way: 0.5 to 1.0 may be chosen from rotating special topics courses, also under the CIN rubric (but possibly cross-listed with another department, depending on the instructor's departmental home); the remaining 0.5 to 1.0 may be chosen from film-based courses offered by other units (non-CIN designator) but approved as relevant to the Cinema Studies master's program curriculum.
  • All students complete CIN 1000H, CIN 1001H, and CIN 1002H.
  • Additional requirements for students choosing the major research paper option:
    • CIN 1006Y
    • 0.5 to 1.0 FCE derived from elective CIN courses
    • 0.5 to 1.0 FCE derived from approved graduate-level courses offered outside CIN.
  • Additional requirements for students choosing the internship option:
    • CIN 1007Y
    • 0.5 to 1.0 FCE derived from elective CIN courses
    • 0.5 to 1.0 FCE derived from approved graduate-level courses offered outside CIN.

Normal Program Length: 3 sessions full-time

Time Limit: 3 years full-time

Course List

Not all elective courses are offered every year. The department should be consulted each session as to elective and non-CIN course offerings.

Core Courses

CIN 1000H Historiography of the Cinema
CIN 1001H Theories of the Cinema
CIN 1002H Cinema and Culture
Plus one of:
CIN 1006Y Major Research Paper in Cinema Studies
CIN 1007Y Internship in Cinema Studies

Elective Courses (subject to change)

CIN 1003H Women's Cinema and Women's Film Festivals
CIN 1004H Models of Film Analysis
CIN 1005H Special Studies in Cinema (sample topics: Textuality of the Cinematic Body, Colour and the Moving Image, Media/Participation)
CIN 1008H Independent Research and Reading in Cinema Studies
CIN 1100H One Film, Multiple Approaches
CIN 1425H British Social Realism and Cinema
CIN 1515H The Emergence of Mass Culture: Movies, Vaudeville and Public Amusements in Turn-of-the-Century America
CIN 1539H Film Comedy and Popular Culture
CIN 1772H The Politics of Non-Fiction Film
CIN 5968H Actuality, Documentary, Reality
CIN 6153H Race and Cinema
CIN 6156H Dark Passages: Film and the Geometry of Racial Imagination
CIN 6197H Eyes Looking, Lips Moving: Theories of Viewing Subject
CIN 6803H Intertextuality in Feminist Cinema: The Counter-cinematic Impulse
CIN 6817H Text, Context, Intertext: The Touch of Evil Project
JFF 1100H Surrealism and French Cinema

Graduate Faculty

Full Members

Ambros, Veronika - MA, PhD
Columpar, Corinn - BA, PhD (Coordinator of Graduate Studies)
Fenner, Angelica - BA, MA, PhD
Jain, Kajri - PhD
Kaplan, Louis - AB, AM, DPhil
Keil, Charles - BA, MA, PhD (Director)
King, Robert - AB, MA, PhD
Price, Brian - PhD
Ricco, John - BA, MA, PhD
Sammond, Nicholas - BA, MA, PhD
Tcheuyap, Alexie - PhD

Members Emeriti

Armatage, Kay - BA, MA, PhD

Associate Members

Cahill, James - PhD
Maurice, Alice - BA, DPhil
Sutherland, Meghan - PhD
Testa, Bart - BA, MA

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