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Department of Media and Culture Studies

The Department of Media and Culture Studies provides education on and carries out research in the fields of film, television, games, new media and digital culture, theatre, dance and performance, gender and ethnicity, music and cultural policies. Culture is a dynamic mix of artistic, creative and everyday practices with which people shape their identities and actions, and within which societal structures and institutions take shape. Media (old and new) are crucial factors in these processes.

The department is the home base for all the lecturers who teach in the Bachelor’s programmes Media en Cultuur and Muziekwetenschap . They also teach in the various Master's programmes, including  Applied Musicology , Arts and Society , Contemporary Theatre, Dance and Dramaturgy , Film and Television Cultures ,  Gender Studies , Gender Studies (research) , Media, Art and Performance Studies , Musicology and New Media & Digital Culture .

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The scholars in media and culture studies from the various research groups often work together to explore issues surrounding different facets of the role played by art, culture, and media in present-day society. The research focuses on a broad range of media and cultural and artistic performances, which are studied within their intermedial context. We pay particular attention to the relation between historical and contemporary developments, transmedial and intermedial phenomena, cultural diversity, emancipation, heritage and the digital humanities.

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Doing a Phd

If you have completed your Master's programme, and you are enthusiastic about doing research in your field, then maybe doing a Doctorate (PhD) might be something for you. A Doctor’s degree is the highest academic degree awarded by a Dutch university. You start as 'assistant in training' (aio) or 'researcher in training' (oio).

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At Utrecht University you take part in education in one of the Graduate Schools and often also teach students. During the four-year PhD programme you work under the guidance of a professor on creating a research project that results in a dissertation or a series of articles in scientific journals. You can search for positions on research projects on offer or a position whereby you are free to submit your own research proposal. Read more on doing a PhD at Utrecht University. 

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The best way to find a PhD position is through networking with the professor in the field you wish to specialize. Another option is to search via www.academictransfer.nl . Here you can also find more information on doing PhD research in the Netherlands. 

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A PhD track consists of original scientific research under the supervision of a professor, which takes on average 4 years.

Every year, around 400 PhD candidates defend their dissertation at Leiden University, spread across all the University’s different disciplines.

A PhD track consists of original scientific research under the supervision of a professor, which takes on average 4 years. Many PhD candidates are employed by the University, but a number are subsidised by a grant that they have acquired themselves. The University also has a large number of external PhD candidates, who generally work part-time on their research. 

Every PhD candidate is enrolled in one of the University Graduate Schools.

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Postgraduate Courses in Film Studies in The Netherlands - 2 Courses

University of amsterdam graduate school of humanities.

• Media Studies: Film Studies

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• Media Studies: Film and Photographic Studies

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FILM STUDIES

Arnoud Arps

• Cultural memory
• Indonesian war films and popular culture
• Cinema and literature
• Colonial and postcolonial cinema
• Extended cinema and film heritage
• Travelogues

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Marie-Aude Baronian

• Memory, testimony and visual culture
• Film-philosophy
• Material objects and material culture
• Fashion, costume and design
• Armenian diasporic cinema and art

Erica Biolchini

• Film Aesthetics
• Neuro-philosophy
• Media Ecologies
• Eco-critical Media

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Bogna Bochińska

• Elemental media
• Environmental humanities

Pei-Sze Chow

• Film aesthetics
• Space, place, and identity
• Transnational media geography
• Cinemas of small nations/regions (Denmark, Singapore)
• Algorithms and AI in cinema
• Diversity and representation in film

Özgür Çiçek

• National and transnational cinemas
• ‘Minor’ cinemas, particularly Kurdish cinema
• Audiovisual heritage and memory studies
• Documentary filmmaking and instable archives

Emily Clark

• Music and sound
• Ethnographic methods
• Colonial history, migration and diaspora
• Audiovisual archives
• Anthropology/history of the senses
• Representations of culture and nature

Jacob Engelberg

• Queer and bisexual approaches to cinema
• Feminist film theory
• Early cinema
• Film theory
• Critical theory

Jamil Fiorino-Habib

• Aesthetics and politics
• Film philosophy
• Media temporalities
• Queer theory

Charles Forceville

• Visual & multimodal metaphor/discourse
• Narrative & argumentation across media
• Relevance theory and visuals
• Documentary, animation, comics
• Cognitivist film studies
• Research bridging academia and the real world

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Giovanna Fossati

• Film heritage and film restoration
• Digitization and digital cinema
• Film archival theory
• Colour in silent cinema

• Film theory (classical and contemporary)
• U.S. cinema

Gert Jan Harkema

• Early film history (incl. pre-cinema)
• Philosophy of history
• Aesthetic philosophy
• Precarity in contemporary Dutch film and television
• Mediations of nature

Hemen Heidari

• Cinematic body and memory
• Materiality of cinema
• Cinematic image and sound analysis
• Photography and/in cinema
• Noir & road movies
• Iranian cinema

Slava Greenberg

• Disability Film Studies (Crip and Mad Theories)
• Transgender Film Studies
• Feminist and Transfeminist Film Theory
• Animation Theory
• Documentary
• Film-Philosophy (Phenomenology, Affect, and Frankfurt School)

Sara Janssen

• Close Reading
• Affect Theory
• Gender and Sexuality
• Pornography

Rhys Steven Jones

• Film theory (classic and contemporary)
• Critical and cultural theory (including queer theory, Marxist theory and affect theory)
• Racial capitalism
• Theories of abjection/disgust/waste/surplus
• Horror cinema / extreme cinema(s)
• Architecture and film
• Speculative fiction and film
• Reality television

Blandine Joret

• Francophone film culture
• Film criticism
• Film and other arts
• Classical film theory
• Media literacy
• Film/media pedagogy

Tarja Laine

• Cinematic affect
• Film and emotions
• Film and art
• Film phenomenology

Catherine Lord

• Practice-based research
• Intermediality
• Adaptation studies
• Literature and film
• Cinema and ecology (eco-films)
• Climate change communication
• Film and psychoanalysis
• Frankfurt School, media, and the culture industry

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Media Studies: Film Studies

The Master's in Film Studies at the University of Amsterdam is a unique one-year programme that offers a theoretically rigorous engagement with the field of film studies and visual culture. Film Studies is situated within the internationally ranked Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam, which brings together renowned scholars from a variety of media and theoretical perspectives.The programme approaches the study of film as a multi-faceted phenomenon, one that plays a vital and ever-changing role in contemporary digital media culture. The programme invites students to engage critically and creatively with the field through a series of core courses in film-philosophy, media archaeology, and (trans)national and global audiovisual practices. Students also take part in intensive research seminars that explore specialized topics related to the expertise of the core film faculty. These seminars address both classic and cutting-edge subjects, ranging from neuro-aesthetics, ethics, affect, fashion, body, and the politics of gender and identity, to classical film theory, multimodal metaphor, and the cinematic city. With its many festivals, its rich cinematic tradition, its archives, museums and cultural institutions, Amsterdam offers the perfect setting for this programme. Please note, the Master's in Film Studies is not a Master's in Film Production.

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The institutional rate is for all students who have already obtained a bachelor’s or master’s degree and who want to start a second programme leading to a degree at the same level or at a lower level.

Application requirements

The Master’s in Film Studies is open for application to all students with a Bachelor’s degree from the UvA, or another accredited university in:

- A discipline in the Humanities related to Media Studies, or the Social Sciences with a strong focus on Media Studies as developed from a Humanities perspective, including media analyses, media practices, text and audience analysis  (to be decided upon by the selection committee).

Please see: www.uva.nl/ma-film-studies > Application and admission

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The research seminars offer the students insights in an emerging and specific research field of Film Studies, ranging from theoretical and/or historical issues to more generic problems in the field of the (moving) image.

We will consider a number of key issues as an advanced introduction to classical and contemporary film theory which have fascinated thinkers and practitioners of film from its earliest days through its many cultural and technological transformations up to the present.

The premise of this course is that film historical research informs our understanding not only of the past, but also of the present. Therefore, we will consider a number of motifs and issues that have fascinated people through the many transformations up to the present.

This course helps students to orientate themselves within the theoretical and historical frameworks towards possible topics for research, formulate research questions and select appropriate methods, as well as to conduct (preliminary) literature research and determine a time plan for their research.

Some examples of electives include "Documentary Imagination", "This is Film! Film Heritage in Practice", and "Sexuality and Media".

The Master's thesis reports on research carried out under the supervision of an academic staff member involved in the programme. The subject of the thesis must be mutually agreed upon by the student and the academic adviser.

Credit transfer

Students who show exceptional promise during a regular or professional programme are encouraged to continue their studies in a research programme. Once students are admitted to the research programme, they can transfer credits earned during their previous course of study towards their Research Master's degree. The Examinations Board determines which courses qualify for transfer. 

Research Master's in Media Studies 

The Film Studies specialisation within the Media Studies Research Master's Programme focuses on the theoretical, philosophical, cultural and historical study of film and cinema. The intensive and selective two-year programme has been developed for students with proven ability in, and passion for, research. 

In this video, teachers and a student of the Master’s in Media Studies share their experiences with the study programme at the University of Amsterdam.

No, this programme does not teach practical filmmaking or other technical skills. The MA in Film Studies is highly academic, focusing on theoretical knowledge and research skills such as written and verbal communication.

We typically enrol between 40 and 50 students each year.

All courses in the MA Film Studies are taught in English and students are expected to write all assignments including the MA thesis in English. 

Our students run the UvA Film Club that organises regular film screenings and Q&A sessions with noted directors. Off-Screen is the student association for students in Media Studies. Many students are also involved in the international film festivals happening in and around Amsterdam.

We welcome mature applicants, regardless of their prior work experiences, so long as the application requirements are met.

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Fabian Schlott | Algorithmic Mediation in the Digital Creative Economy

Traditional cultural economics research has primarily focused on the economic aspects of art markets and museums, neglecting the burgeoning platform economy’s impact on cultural consumption and dissemination. The rise of User-Generated Content platforms, which serve as intermediaries between numerous producers and users, introduces new dynamics in platform competition and consumer engagement through automated algorithms that streamline transaction costs. These platforms employ recommender, search, and ranking systems to cater to diverse user preferences, encouraging longer and more frequent interactions. However, the opaque nature of these algorithms raises concerns about potential biases and inequalities, as they are not subject to external audits or transparency.

Helena Baard | Afrikaans Film in Flux: Investigating the Deconstruction of Apartheid Ideology in Contemporary Afrikaans Films

How do contemporary Afrikaans films, rooted in biographical and historic source material, interrogate apartheid ideology to deconstruct the cultural hegemony of traditional Afrikaner culture and its reproduction within contemporary Afrikaner culture? I do a film analysis of six recent Afrikaans films made in South Africa, namely Vir die Voëls (2016), Ellen: The Ellen Pakkies Story (2018), Kanarie (2018), Moffie (2019) Poppie Nongena (2019), and Toorbos (2021). The history of South African cinema is closely tied to the country’s socio-political past. South Africa was an apartheid state from 1948 till 1994, which meant that it had legalised racial segregation.

Eirini Tsitse | Cultivating Cultural Innovation: Audience Engagement, Digital Dynamics, and Entrepreneurial Strategies

This PhD research investigates the transformative potential of audience engagement in the cultural and creative sectors and industries (CCSIs), focusing on the intersection of audience engagement, cultural entrepreneurship, and digitalization. Motivated by a research gap in understanding individual-level audience experiences in cultural sectors, the study aims to uncover how audience engagement influences the overall trajectory of CCSIs.

Vanessa Richter | Imaginaries of Artificial Intelligence – Mapping (Social Media) Platforms’ Role in Shaping (Public) Tech Imaginaries

Artificial intelligence is considered a key technology today, although interpreted diversely and ambiguously. With the shift of AI products into everyday life, new fears of job loss and promises of easing work burdens are hatching, impacting large public investments into research and industry and are reflected in policy discourses and legislation. The imagination and future perception of what AI can and should become have led to different trajectories showcasing the importance of social and cultural discursive imagination in envisioning and determining trajectories of AI and its integration into society through such imaginaries.

Luuk Schröder | Re-sensing electronic waste through artistic practice, how can lived experience at e-waste recycling centers contribute to our media-ecological future?

This research project addresses the mediation processes that persistently hide the materiality of media technology. Media technologies contribute siginicantly to the current ecological crisis. Yet, ‘a pivotal feature of media technology’s is that their “materiality”, their material presence, and sensorial impact in the mediating process, tends to escape regular users’ (van den Oever and Fickers, 2023). As a result, the role that media technology plays in the current ecological crisis and the lived experiences of people working at the end of the production chain is often overlooked. If we want to grasp the human involvement and environmental harm that are consequences of the material that media equipment is made of, we must re-sensitize ourselves to the media technology we use so much

Semmy Claassen | Researching The Pros of Digital Bookish Platforms and How They Can Improve Reading Education in Dutch-Language Contexts

Semmy Claassen | Utrecht University As evidenced by the PISA 2022 Results, a third of Dutch 15-year-old students is at risk of leaving secondary school illiterate (OECD, 2023; Stichting Lezen, 2023). This points to the reading crisis among Dutch youth which manifests a decrease in reading (Waal, 2023). In the midst of this reading crisis, there is a fair share of adolescents who are (re)discovering and celebrating reading through TikTok’s literary subculture BookTok (Martens et al., 2022). I will further explore the mechanisms of digital literary platforms in Dutch-language contexts and their possible role in motivating reading among young people.

This interdisciplinary PhD project, combining media studies, literary studies, and educational sciences, consists of two main phases. The main research question is whether and if so, how, digital platforms and/or their subcultures with an emphasis on reading can enhance reading education in secondary schools to contribute towards combatting the reading crisis described above.

PhD Defence: Jeroen Boom (Radboud University Nijmegen)

6 March 2024 | 16.30hrs | Aula Radboud University Nijmegen Strangers Unseen explores images of refugees and migrants that are deliberately obscure, opaque, and illegible. It examines these images within a group of recent essay films that employ fractures and frustrations as expressive cinematic elements to engage with the different realities of displacement and statelessness.

Kate Saccone | “The Work of Cinema is Finished When the Show Begins”: Curating and Presenting Silent Cinema Today

My practice-led research project focuses on curating and presenting silent films (i.e., films made during cinema’s first two decades) within contemporary archival and museological contexts. What does curating silent films today entail? What are the constitutive elements of this practice?

Jiaxin Liu | Unlocking the Past: Bridging Art, History, and Young People’s Media Environment Through Multisensory Extended Reality (XR) Engagement

Museums and art galleries play a crucial role in enlightening the public and improving appreciation and comprehension of art and cultural heritage. In today’s increasingly competitive and hyper-mediated world, attracting and engaging young people is one of the most challenging issues museums face; young people are constantly bombarded with information and entertainment options, making it difficult for museums to compete for their attention, museums must find ways to make their collections and programs engaging and relevant for youth.

Sanghwa Lee | PlatforMuse: Korean musicians’ identity and working conditions within the dynamics of the platformization of music

This project offers the first global analysis of how platforms are shaping – and being shaped by – the creative practices and working experiences of Korean music artists.

It has been well established that the cultural industries (television, film, music, publishing, gaming etc.) require academic attention not only for their economic clout, but for the influence they exert on shaping our knowledge and experiences of the world we live in (Hesmondhalgh, 2019). The importance of these industries in ‘the production of social meaning’, also directs our attention to the creative workers and cultural producers who work in these industries.

Jim Kroezen | PlatforMuse

PlatforMuse aims to investigate how online platforms shape—and are being shaped by—the work of music artists. The project involves ethnographic fieldwork on the music industries of three countries: The Netherlands, South Korea, and Nigeria. Digital platforms have become a central part of contemporary capitalism and changed the way in which we produce and consume culture. However, we still do not know much about how platforms change the actual work conditions and creative practices of cultural producers.

Ilker Bahar | Digital transformation of body, identity and intimacy through social VR: The case of VRChat

Supported with gradually advancing AR and VR technologies, social VR platforms began to offer various opportunities for users to interact, communicate, and create with others in a shared digital space. Launched in 2014 and used by millions across the world today, VRChat platform is one such place where participants engage in practices such as role-playing, ASMR, and cross-gender avatar embodiment and form communities such as mirror dwellers, furries, and memers. Despite burgeoning research on the technological and economic aspects of virtual worlds and the parallel developments in blockchain, NFT, and immersive technologies, there is still a lack of scholarly research on the social and cultural dynamics of these digital ecosystems.

Mohammad Talebi | Dance-music communicology: interaction of dancers with musical rhythm for narrative embodiment in classical ballet variations

Classical ballet is a European technical dance theater genre using various dramaturgic elements such as libretto, music, and choreography to share a nonverbal narrative with the audience. Dancers integrate textual, aural, and visual components of the ballet using various corporeal articulations and expressive gestures to represent a new multimodal narrative from each element. Dancer-music communication for narrative visualization is embedded within a complex dynamic system that has received less attention.

Linda Kopitz | Artificial Amsterdam: Architectural Writing and the Urban (Re)imagination of Nature

In our current moment of ecological crisis, creating urban environments that are more green, more sustainable, more livable has become an urgent challenge. Encompassing strategies as diverse as the private greening of rooftops via technological ‘smart’ solutions to the municipally mandated use of renewable construction materials, sustainability is a practical concern, representational practice and discursive process. This PhD project proposes that the cross-mediality of ‘architectural writing’ – architecture as writing – plays a crucial role in the sustainable (re)imagination of urban life through the production of nature within the city.

PhD Defense: Gemma Newlands (University of Amsterdam)

22 June 2023 | 16:00hrs | Agnietenkapel As new occupations emerge in response to the growth of the digital economy, the relationship between digital technology and labour has resulted in significant changes in how work is evaluated. By critically examining the ways in which humans and artificial intelligence (AI) are co-evolving and the ways in which work is becoming more technical and less human(e), this dissertation provides insights into the challenges and opportunities of this rapidly changing landscape.

PhD Defense: Kun He (University of Groningen)

29 June 2023 | 14.30hrs | Academy building RUG Chinese populism exhibits unique features that distinguish it from populism observed in democratic settings. Notably, Chinese populism encompasses two distinct forms: communist populism and online bottom-up populism, each operating in its own distinct manner. Communist populism is propagated through the party-state system, mobilizing against perceived corrupt elites in the name of the majority Chinese people.

PhD Defense: Constanza Gajardo (VU University)

Friday 20 October 2023 at 13:45 hrs | VU University – Amsterdam From a traditional normative perspective, it is understood that if people do not consume news, democracy loses an informed foundation for an engaged citizenship (Christians et al., 2010; Schudson, 2008; McNair, 2009). Hence, the acquisition of factual information, primarily about politics and public affairs, is often considered what people need from journalism (McQuail, 2013). However, such normative formulations seem to primarily represent the viewpoint of journalists. The audience’s perspective has only been tangentially included in the normative framework of journalism, mainly based on predefined definitions of what it means for individuals to fulfil a citizen’s role (Moe, 2020).

Marc Prüst | The visual economy of the photographic industry

In the age of digital media, images are more important than ever, but the vast majority of image makers find it increasingly difficult to make a full time living from their work. We are in a moment of contradiction where, at the same time, the social value of visuals has increased while the economic value of photography has declined. However, the industry’s attitude to the production and distribution of photographic images seems to have changed little.

Jialing Song | Gendering Digital Cultural Production in Chinese Platform Economy

This project aims to fill in the gap of a specific gender focus in the process of Chinese platformization and contribute to understanding the formation of Chinese gendered subjects vis-à-vis digital cultural production, as well as in what ways they participate in, interact with, and navigate the system of the Chinese platform economy. 

Floor Mijland | Platformisation of Education: Edtech and Learning Ecosystems in Dutch Secondary Education

Many educational institutions build heavily on EdTech’s, EduApps, and Learning Management Systems in their daily practices. At the ‘back end’ of this incorporation of such platforms are usually private American big tech Google (Alphabet), Amazon and Microsoft (Kerssens and van Dijck, 2022; Williamson et al., 2022). The platforms and data-infrastructures provided by these companies are convenient, easy to access, and user friendly. Yet, they are built by profit driven companies from countries which do not (necessarily) share the public values of Dutch secondary education: they do not govern an accountable, responsible, and transparent use of technology.

Hannah Poon | Surviving in Abeyance: Digital Networks and Resistance in Hong Kong after the Anti-Extradition Bill Movement

How to sustain a political movement when it is not allowed? How to survive in abeyance? Hong Kong’s 2019-20 Anti-Extradition Bill (Anti-ELAB) Movement, a full-scale democratic struggle against Chinese rule, was forced into abeyance under the National Security Law imposed in June 2020. Followed by hard-handed suppression, activist networks were forced to shift to other arenas less susceptible to the regime’s control: consumer marketplace, fan culture, and diasporic communities. These informal networks remain active in constructing political discourse and staging micro-resistance, which remaps the boundaries of politics and solidarity outside traditional institutions, protests, and civil society.

Qingling Zhang | The Sublime in Cosmic Horror Films

Cosmic horror derived from Romantic literature at the end of the 18th century and reached its climax in Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. By hybridizing scientific outer space with ancient cultural material, Lovecraft’s cosmic horror emphasizes the vastness of time and space, and in turn, it expresses the insignificance and inadequacy of human beings.

Maciej Grzenkowicz | Tik-Tok, it’s time for the truth! The multimodal language of fact-checking on TikTok

In my project, I am analysing the fact-checking accounts on TikTok in order to understand the specifics of multimodal argumentation on the social media platform and the argumentative strategies used by the fact-checkers. Even though TikTok is one of the most downloaded applications in the world, there have been little efforts to fight mis- and disinformation, which are omnipresent in the platform.

Sarah Burkhardt | Socio-technical and feminist strategies of visibility: Rethinking and programming representation through mapping Dutch #MeToo formations

The project critically engages with the Dutch #MeToo debate by situating it within a longer history of attempts to render visible‚ the struggle to end sexist oppression‘ (hooks, 1984) across different online media. It maps involved actors and researches the role of different spaces, such as educational or governmental institutions, social media platforms, legacy news outlets.  As part thereof, the project creates access and knowledge about #MeToo-related debates through leveraging, building and critically reflecting TwiXL as a cross-media research infrastructure.

Maud Rebergen | Marginalising Machines: Digital Citizenship in the age of e-Governance

The growing role of digital technology in society has changed the notions of citizenship and inclusion. Governments worldwide are becoming increasingly digital and shift the responsibility to handle e-governance technologies towards citizens. Digital divide scholars express concern about these developments, as it becomes increasingly difficult for a significant part of society to participate. This is the case, even in societies that are digitally advanced. The Netherlands is an example of such a place where 97% of citizens have domestic internet access but where four out of 17 million citizens lack the basic digital literacy to participate in the digital society.

Nathalie Fridzema | Before WEB 2.0: A Cultural History of Early Web Practices in the Netherlands from 1994 until 2004

The objective of the PhD project is to create a cultural history of web practices before web 2.0, specifically in the Netherlands between 1994 and 2004. This period of the preliminary web – characterized by idealistic initiatives adhering to utopian ideals like participatory democracy, freedom, and accessibility – is often overshadowed by the swift development of platforms and social media.

Skinner Myers | Black Star: Race, Representation, & the need for Intransigence against the Despotism of Anti-Blackness over Black Hollywood Cinema

Black Star analyzes the “idea of blackness” in the world and how there are two separate paths “Black Cinema” can take: “that which ‘awakens’ the spectator by taking him along the path of progress, and that which ‘lulls him to sleep’ by making him sluggish and escape from reality by merely entertaining him.”[1] The dissertation posits that “Cinema”, which it designates as a “Colonizing Cinema”, has demanded, “Black Cinema” to perform with a minstrel mask and explicit blackface that grants a partial humanization of the “idea of blackness” in “Cinema.” This allows “Colonizing Cinema” to take possession of “Black Cinema” to make it palatable, which further concretizes its place as the “other” within “Cinema.”

Saskia Asser | The Spaarnestad Collection, a Resourceful Archive. A Study of the Relevance of Analogue Press Photo Archives in Digital Times for the History of Photojournalism

The central focus of my research is the Spaarnestad Collection in the National Archives of the Netherlands. The collection is a good example of a resourceful archive: an archive that is not so much a passive resource but reflects a social practice in its physical form and material coherence. The core is formed by the former photo library of De Spaarnestad, a major Dutch publisher of illustrated magazines in the 20th century.

Daniel Leix Palumbo | From Spoken Audio to Digital Identities: How AI impacts the interpretation of information communicated by the sound of voice

Today’s digitised media context is undergoing an oral/aural renaissance, where voice technology increasingly permeates much of contemporary life. In particular, tech companies and states are massively investing in voice biometrics, making such technology a multi-billion global industry and a new centre of digital innovation.

Anunaya Rajhans | Meme Culture and the crisis of meaning in Indian public discourse

The project proposes to create a first-of-its-kind account of meme culture in India. The study aims to survey the everyday internet practices of individuals and online communities, to try to understand their growing socio-political influence and cultural capital. By looking at memes as mirrors​of socio-cultural formations, the idea is to develop a thorough understanding of individual motivations, desires and the shared creative energies that form these communities within the given context.

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BA Media Studies

University of groningen.

• Groningen, Netherlands

Media have a major impact not only on how we communicate with one another, but also on how societies are organised: culturally, politically and economically. This academic Program therefore studies the informative and social function of media and conceives 'culture' in its anthropological definition: as the ideas, customs and social behaviour of particular (groups in) societies.

Bachelor Composition for Film and Theatre

Artez university of the arts.

• Arnhem, Netherlands

Blended, On-Campus

Composition for Film and Theatre is a hybrid course for gutsy, wilful composers. Do you want to become the best composer you can be, from wherever you are in the world? Then this is the course for you! You can take this course either online or on campus in Arnhem; you can even switch between the two every year!

Bachelor Moving Image

• Enschede, Netherlands

The Moving Image course at the Design Department at the Academy of Art Design in Enschede focuses on the endless possibilities of the moving image. The focus is on design, film and communication.

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film Art

Paris college of art.

• Paris, France
• Boston, USA

For centuries, the world’s greatest thinkers and artists have come to Paris to learn, create, and find inspiration. This program gives you the chance to do the same.

MA Film and Contemporary Audiovisual Media

In this one-year Master’s program, you will work closely with our international faculty, whose collective expertise includes phenomenological and cognitive film theory, digital film forensics, queer film studies, post-colonial and settler colonial studies, film festival research, screen acting studies, media anthropology, and more. Students leave our MA program ready to leave their mark on the next chapters of film history, both inside and outside of academia.

MA Media Studies

Dutch, English

A healthy society needs good journalism. How and why is journalism changing so much? How do you make independent, reliable and fascinating journalistic stories yourself? In this track you will be trained as a reporter and you will learn to think critically about what journalism entails. You develop both practical skills and academic knowledge.

MA in Arts & Culture: Film and Contemporary Audiovisual Media

Are you fascinated by the emotional and cognitive effects of films? Do you love studying documentaries and the contributions cinema can make to discussions of climate change? Then the Master’s track ‘Film and Contemporary Audiovisual Media’ is the right one for you. Within a year you can acquire a Master’s degree from one of the Top 100 universities in the world—and you will do so in the city with the youngest population in the Netherlands. An internship in film, television or other media is part of the program as well. In ‘Film and Contemporary Audiovisual Media’ you will work closely with our international faculty, who will initiate you into the latest theoretical debates in film and media studies. You will learn to work with state-of-the-art approaches such as phenomenology, film-cognitivism, ecocriticism, film philosophy, digital film forensics, and experimental media archaeology.

Master of Arts in Film and Television Cultures

Utrecht university.

• Utrecht, Netherlands

Full time, Part time

We live in mediatised worlds in which film and television are part of globalised and digitised media industries that are highly dynamic. To understand how contemporary media work one needs advanced familiarity with its cultural forms, knowledge of industry systems and practices as well as historical awareness of media’s pasts. In this Master’s programme in Film and Television Cultures, you will explore our dynamic media worlds and learn to think critically about changing industries, technologies and cultures.

Motion Graphics & Compositing training

College of multimedia in amsterdam.

• Amsterdam, Netherlands

Nowadays video is much more than the footage shot with a camera. A strong visual story with maximum impact often uses advanced animation and moving graphics.

Video Production Certificate

Sae institute amsterdam.

Certificate

The popularity of Video is constantly rising, and nowadays, it is considered the most engaging type of content. With the Video Production Certificate, you will learn how to make your own videos, working in the entire production chain., from pre-production to shooting, sound recording, post-production and final exports for web videos and short documentaries.

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Degrees in Film Studies

Film is subject to academic study in a variety of different areas, including film history, criticism, and production. Students often analyze the social, political, aesthetic, and narrative features of a particular work, as well as the general theories that underlie filmmaking as a whole.

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, consisting of twelve provinces in North-West Europe and three islands in the Caribbean. English-speaking students will have no problems finding suitable courses. For international students applying to universities in the Netherlands, several scholarships are available.