Film Studies Program

Global Cinema Symposium

Nov. 1-2, 2024
In person at The University of Texas at Dallas

Organized by the Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology.

We aim to create a network of scholars from around the world to develop theories, conceptual frameworks, and methodologies to reshape the field of global cinema.

The two-day symposium included two keynote addresses by prominent scholars in the field, a featured panel of invited scholars to reflect on the state of the field, a workshop on syllabus development, and four traditional panels comprised of speakers selected from the open call for papers.

About the Film Studies Program

Film Studies is an interdisciplinary academic field that considers the history, aesthetics, and ideology of cinema as an art form, as an industry, and as a system of personal, political, and cultural representation.

On both the graduate and undergraduate levels, courses are offered on a variety of topics involving film and moving-image culture, among them authorship, adaptation, world and national cinemas, genres (such as comedy, the musical, horror, science fiction), modes (such as documentary and experimental cinema).

In all courses, students are exposed to a wide range of artists, works, styles, and movements from a number of different critical and theoretical perspectives.