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More than a century old, film is an integral, omnipresent art form and a component of our day-to-day lives. The film studies minor at Rollins examines how film reflects and affects the social, intellectual, cultural, ethical, economic, aesthetic, and political aspects of our world.

You’ll learn to think critically about how film influences values and ideologies as well as views on gender, race, class, sexuality, religion, and nationality.

Rollins students outside the Enzian theater at the Florida film festival.

Dive into Film Studies

The Film Studies Program examines how film reflects and affects the social, intellectual, cultural, ethical, economic, aesthetic, and political aspects of our world; encourages students to move toward critical thinking about how film influences values and ideologies as well as our views on gender, race, class, sexuality, religion, and nationality; and demonstrates that film is a medium which both reflects and produces social conflicts, desires, and power relations.

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Film Studies Program

Cornell Hall – Room 126
1000 Holt Ave.
Winter Park, FL32789

Telephone:407.646.2320

  • Self portrait of William Boles

    William Boles, PhD

    Jeanette McKean Professor

    Research interests: Drama and screenwriting

  • Lisa Tillmann

    Lisa Tillmann, PhD

    Department Chair, Professor of Critical Media & Cultural Studies

    Research interests: Activism, social justice documentary filmmaking, and civil rights

  • Susan Libby portrait

    Susan Libby, PhD

    Professor Emerita of Art History

    Research interests: European art, with an emphasis on colonialism and construction of race and gender; contemporary cultural property disputes; artists in film

  • Steve Schoen

    Steve Schoen, PhD

    Associate Professor of Critical Media & Cultural Studies

    Research interests: Documentary production, theory and criticism, and media representations of gender and sexuality