Film Studies

For more than 20 years now, UVic’s Film Studies program has been focused on the study of movies from both a theoretical and international perspective. With 25 faculty members spread over eight departments, the range of specialties we offer is remarkable—from vampires and the ancient world to horror, gender studies, action movies and queer cinema, to name a few. Our faculty also specializes in films from Africa, Germany, Russia, Southeast Asia, Japan, the Caribbean, Quebec, France, Italy and China, as well as other destinations. 

• Anthropology and Film and Video
• Gender, Identity and Film
• Bollywood Bound: Popular Visual Culture in India, 1950s to the Present
• Bollywood Global: Popular Visual Culture in the Indian Diaspora, 1980s to the Present
• The Cinema and Modern Art Movements
• Documentary Film
• Experimental Film
• History in Cinema
• Popular Film and Cultural Theory
• Hollywood Genres
• Horror Cinema
• Canadian Film
• Seminar in Film Studies
• Studies in Film and Literature
• American Film to 1945
• American Film Since 1945
• Narrative Film to 1945: Rhetoric and Contex
• Narrative Film since 1945: Rhetoric and Context
• Theory and Practice of Film and Video Direction
• Topics in Cinema and Literature of the French speaking World (in English)
• Indigenous Cinema: De-colonizing the Screen
• Queer Film
• Topics in Film, Literature and Cultural Production
• A Short History of German Film
• The New German Cinema
• Recent Film
• Literature and Film of the Holocaust and “Third Reich”
• Major Filmmakers
• After-Images of the Holocaust in Text and Film
• A Cultural History of Vampires in Literature and Film
• Eastern Europe Through Western Eyes
• Russian Culture, Literature, Film (in Russian)
• Cold War on Film
• Stalinist Cinema
• Italian Film
• Introduction to Film Scoring and Sound Design
• Topics in Contemporary Chinese Cinema
• Screening the Nation: Nationalism, Ideology, and Politics in Chinese Cinema
• Southeast Asian Cinema
• Humanism in Japanese Cinema to 1960
• Asian Horror Cinema
• Identity in Animated Japanese Cinema
• Trends in Japanese Cinema, 1960 to Present
• Spanish Film
• Latin American Film
• Narrative and Mythic Structure in Film Writing
• Structure in Cinema and Television Drama
• Film Writing and Production Workshop
• Digital Media for Storytellers
• International Film Writing
• Media and Culture
• Recurrent Themes in Film
• Film Writing and Production Workshop

Requirements

• Twelve years or more of academic preparation and graduation from a recognized senior secondary school or completion of a recognized diploma program. University entrance examinations offered in the home country may also be required.
• Attestat o srednem obrazovanii (at Grade 11)
• IELTS: International English Language Testing System - 6.5, with no individual component less than 6.0
• TOEFL: Test of English as a Foreign Language - 90 on the online test or 575 on the paper-based test, with no section less than 20
  (UVic's TOEFL institution code is 0989)

Scholarships

• Entrance scholarships
• Bursaries
• Work study program