96 Full-time PhD programmes in Film Studies

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.

The Art History and Visual Culture by Practice MPhil/PhD programme from The University of Exeter draws on our established, internationally recognised research activity in Art History and Visual Culture.

The Ph.D. in Communication Studies - Moving Image Studies at Georgia State University is specifically designed to provide students with the conceptual and methodological tools to study the complex and vastly expanded moving image environment of the 21st century, where the boundaries separating cinema, television and new media are breaking down.

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 Film and Television Production programme offered by Anglia Ruskin University explores screen storytelling, production practices, media industries, and creative development across film, television, and emerging audiovisual formats.

Film at University of Kent is known for its dynamic and inclusive research community. Whether you are interested in theories, histories or aesthetics of film and digital media, we have the academic expertise to support your research.

The Film Studies programme offered by King's College London explores cinema, moving-image culture, and theoretical approaches to screen media across international contexts.

This Drama and Film Studies degree programme is offered by the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Pretoria.

The Digital Culture and Communication programme offered by Birkbeck, University of London explores digitally mediated dimensions of aesthetics, affect, art, cities, everyday life, politics, and the post-human condition.

Film Studies at University of Hull is a dynamic new teaching and research unit, which offers PhD research degrees in a range of fields, including television, American cinema, animation, horror and adaptation studies.

As a Film Studies student at the University of St Andrews, you will explore a range of films and other screen media - mainstream and peripheral - from around the world, examining the contexts in which they are made, seen and used. 

We offer a phd programme degree in Film and Television Studies degree at the University of Nottingham.

A wealth of community heritage assets are hidden; they belong to individuals, to families, tucked away in attics or cupboards and their wider cultural value is often not fully appreciated. We offer a A Picture is Worth 1000 - Words, Curation Storytelling Using Community Film and Photographic Archives degree at Robert Gordon University.

Immerse yourself in the rich tapestry of cultural exploration with the University of Udine's doctoral programs in Art History, Film Studies, Media Studies, and Music.

At the University of Cape Town, we offer our graduate students a phd programme degree in Film Studies. 

The Film Studies and Media Studies programme offered by Anglia Ruskin University explores film, media, and popular culture through advanced research into cinema, television, digital media, spectatorship, cultural production, and contemporary media practices.