Film and Media Studies

Occidental’s Film and Media Studies program combines critical studies and digital production, matriculating graduates who are not only technically savvy, but also critically and socially engaged—understanding that media production and consumption are not simply matters of "entertainment" and "box office" but also constitute powerful social and ideological realms both locally and globally. Film and Media Studies students at Occidental are continually reframing audio-visual representation in relation to culture, economics, politics, history, technology, and identity. Students and faculty are proud of the diverse range of fictional, documentary, and experimental/new media work that is both theorized and created within our program.

The Film and Media Studies program is pioneering in its curricular partnerships with Art History and Studio Arts. These three distinct, but resonant programs are partners within a larger Art History and Visual Arts Department, linking the still comparatively young histories of film, electronic, and digital media to the aesthetic, historical and cultural traditions of other global visual practices (painting, sculpture, photography, and the like).

Film and Media Studies at Occidental is distinctive for the liberal arts college experience it affords, permitting students to approach media studies and production from an interdisciplinary perspective, encouraging traveling and filming abroad, and re-imagining Los Angeles not simply as a shooting location, but also as an historical archive and a valuable repository of complex, compelling stories and subjects.

• Email: yau@oxy.edu or bfox@oxy.edu 
• Location: Weingart
• Phone: (323) 259-2784 or (323) 259-2883 
• Fax: (323) 259-2930