96 Full-time PhD programmes in Film Studies

The Film programme offered by Hong Kong Baptist University supports advanced research in film and media, focusing on cultural analysis, global cinema, and audience studies.

The School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin welcomes applications from potential PhD students. 

The PhD in Cinema and Media Studies at York University, incorporating theoretical, historical and critical approaches to visual media, is designed to encompass a variety of methodological frameworks, cultural practices, and historiographic models.

Research in Media and Communications at the University of Brighton critically analyses the role of media institutions, as well as the changing landscape of media industries and cultural production.

The Film and Visual Arts programme offered by Lingnan University develops advanced research and creative expertise in film, visual arts, and digital media within contemporary creative industries.

The Film Studies programme at University of Essex supports doctoral research in film studies across global cinemas, media forms, and interdisciplinary analytical approaches.

 Our PhD Film Studies (Creative Practice) at University of Essex draws on this unique tradition, offering supervision for students in all fields of our wide-ranging staff research expertise, including an exceptional variety of approaches to mainstream and experimental practice, global cinemas, and comparative media.

The Film Studies MPhil/PhD programme from The University of Exeter is  part of a vibrant research culture at Exeter. Staff and research students regularly present their research in the Centre for Research into Film Studies forum, which also hosts visiting speakers. 

It is no stretch to say that The University of Iowa helped to invent Film Studies as a discipline. The first graduate thesis on film at UIowa dates all the way back to 1916. 

The Film and Screen Media programme offered by Birkbeck, University of London investigates the history, development, and interaction of film, television, and other screen media.

The Film Studies programme offered by Queen's University Belfast enables doctoral researchers to pursue research through film, screen and media practice, or to investigate historical and broader theoretical issues in film, media and screen cultures. Researchers can follow either a Creative Practice or Critical Practice route.

The University of Hertfordshire welcomess applications from postgraduate students interested in pursuing innovative research into Film and Television from a broad range of perspectives.

A Creative and Critical Practice PhD at the University of Sussex develops your practice-led research in creative media production alongside critically engaged writing.

The Cinema Studies Institute offers a program leading to the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Cinema Studies. Faculty members at the University of Toronto have expertise in several areas, including film history, film theory, film analysis, and film and cultural practices.

Join the MPhil/PhD in Film and Television Studies at University of Warwick in order to conduct innovative, world-leading research. Warwick's Film and Television Studies is home to state-of-the-art facilities and world-renowned experts who will guide you as you carry out your research project.

The Theatre, Film and Television Studies programme offered by Aberystwyth University develops advanced expertise in performance analysis, screen cultures, and creative media interpretation.

At the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) we offer our students a phd degree in Film and Television.

The Film and Media Studies Ph.D. program at University of California, Irvine (UCI) is dedicated to understanding film, television, and digital media texts in relation to questions of power, inequality, and difference.

The PhD in Film and Media Studies at the University of Pittsburgh is an interdisciplinary and interdepartmental degree that stresses the history, theory, and aesthetics of international cinema, video, television, and new media.

To be accepted into the combined degree Film Studies and Slavic Languages and Literatures program, students at Yale University must be accepted by both departments. Each student’s program of study will be planned in consultation with the DGS in each area.