Overview
About the program
The Doctor of Philosophy program in Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto addresses the changing role of moving image media within global culture. Past and present configurations of cinema are studied through a constellation of theoretical, textual, social, and historical rubrics.
The core curricular offerings engage with debates and questions that persist within the scholarship while also examining how the field contends with emerging disciplinary issues and new intermedial formats. Throughout, the synthesis of history and theory, textual analysis, and cultural study is emphasized.
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- Theories and Practices of Cinema
- Key Developments in Film History
- History and Historiography of Cinematic Media
- Colour and the Moving Image
- The Textual Object
- The Politics of Non-Fiction Film
- Cinema and Nation
- Documentary and Non-fiction Media
- Media and Philosophy
- Race and Cinema
- Intertextuality in Feminist Cinema: The Counter-Cinematic Impulse
- The Art of Exploration: How to Think the World
- Animages/Animots/Animotions
- Autobiographical Documentary: History, Alterity, and Performativity
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 48 months
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Disciplines
Film Studies View 8 other PhDs in Film Studies in CanadaAcademic requirements
English requirements
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Other requirements
General requirements
- An appropriate master's degree, or in some programs an appropriate bachelor's degree with high academic standing, from a recognized university in a discipline deemed appropriate for the intended field of study.
- An average grade equivalent to a B+ or better in a previous master's degree program. Where relevant, demonstrated research competence equivalent to at least a B+ grade will be considered.
- Letter of intent outlining the academic ambitions, including possible thesis topic, the applicant aims to pursue in the program.
- Three letters of recommendation.
- An academic writing sample of no more than 5,000 words
- Transcripts from all post-secondary institutions.
Tuition Fee
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6390 CAD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 6390 CAD per year during 48 months. -
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6390 CAD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 6390 CAD per year during 48 months.
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