FILM & SCREEN
STUDIES | NYC/PLV
SUCCESS STARTS HERE
The Film and Screen Studies (FSS) program
at Pace University provides a unique
interdisciplinary education in film and
related media. We offer a Bachelor of
Arts degree in Film and Screen Studies,
as well as a minor. Our program offers
students a strong foundation in film
history, film analysis, and film theory
as well as hands-on exposure to the
technological aspects of film production
and cinematic storytelling techniques
and traditions through the use of
professional 16 mm film and HD video
camera packages, lighting and sound
equipment; all projects are edited and
finished on Final Cut Pro. The core major
curriculum is enhanced by electives
that highlight the multiple possibilities
of a film and screen studies education:
students are encouraged to emphasize
their particular interest in the field by
completing their credits in courses
ranging from Latin American Cinema,
Screenwriting, The Biology of ScienceFiction Film, Media and Gender, to Video
Production and Digital Imaging, and
The Politics of Film.
CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE
your course of study to suit your interests
and career goals. Students who wish to
develop two areas of expertise are
encouraged to double major in film
and screen studies and another discipline.
Many FSS students also study abroad
for a semester and thus learn different
approaches to film studies offered in
other countries.
The FSS Major consists of 12 credits of
required courses devoted to the analysis
of film, the historical development of
cinematic traditions and technology,
and the different ways that cinema
has been accounted for philosophically,
psychoanalytically, socially, and politically
since the early 20th century. The remaining
21 credits of electives can be selected
from an uncommonly broad range of
courses offered by film and screen studies
and other departments and programs,
including anthropology, sociology, art,
history, Latin American studies, French,
and biology, allowing you to explore a
variety of approaches to film and tailor
REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCE
Pace University offers students an
incredible opportunity to combine
their academic experience with the
dynamic world of New York City culture.
Taking advantage of our location in one
of the largest centers of media production
Many of our graduates are working in
production and related fields: One
student, who received an award for
outstanding service to the FSS
program, has been promoted to
line producer and has received her
first production credit for the film
I Was Here. Another student is
working for BBC in the Programming
Department. Tony James (aka James
Corujo, FSS 2011) submitted his 16
mm film to “Creative Minds,” the
International student competition in
2010 and had it accepted. While
there, he made another film that
placed second. He has just completed
his first feature film, Faceless.
Finally, another student, who
graduated summa cum laude and
received the Award for Outstanding
Academic Achievement upon
graduation, has just begun work
at the Museum of Natural History
working on the Margaret Mead
Film Festival.
in the world, and Pace University’s
tremendously successful Cooperative
Education program, film and screen
studies students may pursue internships
in film production, film festivals, television,
journalism, internet companies, and
many other related arenas, gaining
professional experience while still
completing their degree. Pace University’s
New York City campus is a featured
venue for the Tribeca Film Festival and
is home to the Actors Studio MFA program
and the Inside the Actors Studio television
program.
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FILM & SCREEN
STUDIES | NYC/PLV
PROFESSIONAL
PREPARATION
FACULTY
Ruth Johnston, Ph.D., professor and director, FSS
Current research projects--“Technologies of Vision and Memory in Blade Runner”
and “Woody Allen Through a Changing Cinematic Lens”—investigate the impact
of new technologies of representation on the definition of space and time,
the status of the image, and implications for cinematic reception. Related
publications have appeared in Cinema Journal, Camera Obscura, Quarterly
Review of Film and Video.
Catherine Zimmer, Ph.D., associate professor, FSS
Book Project-- Surveillance Cinema, contracted to NYU Press--examines
how political and social discourses on the growth of surveillance intersects
the fictional representation of surveillance practice in films and television
series in an era increasingly defined by visual and informational monitoring
in every area of our lives.
Wherever your aspirations lie, our
program’s flexibility and faculty’s individual
guidance will help you achieve success
in a wide range of career paths, such
as public policy, leisure businesses,
museums, education, editing, journalism,
biomedicine, law, criminology, forensics,
not to mention graduate school in a
variety of fields. Film and screen studies
graduates have a well-rounded education
that allows them to pursue careers in
the diverse media industry, or continue
with a graduate education in critical
studies or film, television, or digital media
production.
Frank Martinelli, M.F.A., lecturer, FSS
Most recent films have been short subject exploring space, time, and movement as well as human alienation and intimacy. Recent and current screenwriting,
scholarly writing, and research interests are concerned with ethnicity, identity,
and the effects of new media on youth culture and international relations.
Frank Tomasulo, adjunct professor, FSS
Most published research involves an attempt to examine how specific formal
and stylistic cinematic articulations expose the sociopolitical currents of a
nation’s zeitgeist within a particular historical era.
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