- Memory, testimony and visual culture
- Film-philosophy
- Ethics
- Material objects and material culture
- Fashion, costume and design
- Armenian diasporic cinema and art
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- 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
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- 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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- Film heritage and film restoration
- Digitization and digital cinema
- Film archival theory
- Colour in silent cinema
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- Film theory (classical and contemporary)
- Critical theory
- Film philosophy
- U.S. cinema
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- Early film history (incl. pre-cinema)
- Philosophy of history
- Aesthetic philosophy
- Precarity in contemporary Dutch film and television
- Mediations of nature
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- Cinematic body and memory
- Materiality of cinema
- Cinematic image and sound analysis
- Photography and/in cinema
- Noir & road movies
- Iranian cinema
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- Francophone film culture
- Film criticism
- Film and other arts
- Classical film theory
- Media literacy
- Film/media pedagogy
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- Film Aesthetics
- Close Reading
- Affect Theory
- Gender and Sexuality
- Pornography
- Film dramaturgy
- Script and film analysis
- Film and music, temporality and rhythm
- Adaptation studies
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- Cinematic affect
- Film and emotions
- Film and art
- Film phenomenology
- Film aesthetics
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- Practice-based research
- Intermediality
- Adaptation studies
- Literature and film
- Environmental humanities
- Cinema and ecology (eco-films)
- Climate change communication
- Film and psychoanalysis
- Frankfurt School, media, and the culture industry
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- Postcolonial film and media studies
- Popular geopolitics
- Film (and) tourism
- Audiovisual industries (production, industry, policy)
- Humanitarian communication
- Alternative and activist media
- Cultural entrepreneurship
- Caribbean cinema
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- Audiovisual heritage
- Data-driven film history
- Digital humanities
- Film distribution and exhibition
- National and local cinema histories
- Dutch cinema
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- Film historiography and theory of history
- Film archiving and digitization
- Media archaeology
- Digital Humanities and Digital Heritage
- Documentary and experimental cinema
- Sound theory and auditory culture
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- Politics of cinematic aesthetics
- Feminist film theory and practices
- Film historiography
- Media archaeology
- Film-philosophy
- Film theory
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- Cinema, architecture and the city
- Media archaeology
- Audivisual archives and film curating
- Documentary
- Social functions of film
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- Film-philosophy (Deleuze and Guattari)
- Neurocinematics (affect, altered states)
- Film aesthetics (particularly genre & gender)
- Transnational media and politics
- Dutch cinema and documentaries
- Media ecologies
- Elemental media studies
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- Film spectatorship (emotions)
- Film auteurs
- Film aesthetics
- (European) national cinema
- South Korean cinema
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- History of media
- Multimedia learning
- Educational leadership
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Website of the Film Faculty of the Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands