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

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• Film aesthetics
• Film and psychoanalysis, particularly feminist and queer psychoanalysis
• Environmental humanities, including ecopsychoanalysis
• Film and psychoanalysis, particularly feminist and queer psychoanalysis
• Adaptations: literature-to-film and film-to-literature
• 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)
• Film histories of the Global South
• Caribbean and particularly Jamaican cinema
• Humanitarian communication
• Alternative and activist media
• Creative and cultural entrepreneurship
• Film-based research / research-based filmmaking

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• Aesthetic and political philosophy (identity, subject formation, time and space)
• Critical theory
• Film and media theory
• Psychoanalysis
• Experimental cinema and contemporary art

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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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• Postcolonial and decolonial thought
• Film history and archives
• Critical intersectionality and feminist theory
• Migration, displacement and media
• Film and/as politics

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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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• Contemporary cinema
• Moral and political thought
• Film-philosophy

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• Film ethics
• Cinematic everydayness
• Film and philosophy

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• Body, gender and sexuality
• Celebrity culture and fandom
• Chinese cinema (Hong Kong, Mainland China, and Taiwan)
• Consumerism and globalisation
• Fashion film: aesthetics, identity and practices
• Media and cultural theories

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• Black aesthetics
• Social aesthetics
• Media and representation
• Philosophy of race
• Social and political philosophy

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• Film aesthetics & close analysis
• Film Theory
• Visual Culture
• Film-philosophy
• Posthumanism

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• Critical theory and cultural analysis (genre, affect)
• Theories of race, sexuality, class, and gender
• Representations of space (hinterlands / peripheries / non-urban geographies)
• (Settler) colonial and decolonial aesthetics
• Indigeneity and globalization
• Speculative history, critical fabulation, cultural memory

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• Visual Aesthetics and Cultural Analysis
• Queer Balkan Cinema
• Queer Theory and Postcolonialism
• Activism and Film

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• Cinema and war
• Philosophy of technology
• Media pathologies
• Spectral/haunted media
• Techgnosis
• Posthumanism
• AI

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• Film style (analysis and close reading)
• Feminist film theory, and studies of representation (gender, sexuality, class, race, nation)
• American cinema and culture (history, politics, pop-culture)
• Celebrity studies
• Musicals and music in film
• Teen/youth film and television (rites-of-passage)
• World cinema, especially India, Iran, and Japan

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