- 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 film studies
- Decolonial thought/praxis
- (Intersectional) feminisms
- Audiovisual/Film archives and archival theory
- Critical approaches to film history
- Contested pasts and film as witness
- 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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- Film and philosophy
- Critical university studies
- Geo-media
- Oceanic imaginaries
- Artivism
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- Film aesthetics & close analysis
- Film Theory
- Visual Culture
- Film-philosophy
- Posthumanism
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- Visual Aesthetics and Cultural Analysis
- Queer Balkan Cinema
- Queer Theory and Postcolonialism
- Activism and Film
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- Film philosophy
- Film theory
- Genre cinema
- Cinema and war
- Philosophy of technology
- Media pathologies
- Spectral media
- Film and religion/theology/mysticism
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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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Website of the Film Faculty of the Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands