The Minor in Film Studies allows students to study cinema both as a specific art form with its own history and "language" and as a medium that emerges in the broader context of literary and other cultural production. Courses focus on specific filmmakers, movements, genres, and eras, as well as on special themes and critical topics in film studies.
The program encourages comparative thinking and offers students the opportunity to engage critically with various issues including the place of technology and visual culture in modernity; the politics of the screen image; the relation between literature and cinema; the role of cinema in globalism and consumer culture; and how the continuing evolution of the moving image and "screen culture" situates us as readers and as viewers.
Requirements for the Minor in Film Studies
4.0 full credits in English are required, and 1.0 credit must be at the C- or D- level
1. 1.0 credit as follows:
FLMA70H3 How to Read a Film
FLMB75H3 Cinema and Modernity I or FLMB76H3 Cinema and Modernity II
2. 0.5 credit as follows:
ENGA10H3 Literature and Film for Our Time: Visions and Revisions or ENGA11H3 Literature and Film for Our Time: Dawn of the Digital
3. 1.0 credit from the following:
FLMB29H3 Shakespeare and Film
FLMB71H3 Writing About Movies
FLMB74H3 The Body in Literature and Film
FLMB77H3 Cinema and Colonialism
ENGC41H3 Video Games: Exploring the Virtual Narrative
FLMC44H3 Self and Other in Literature and Film
FLMC56H3 Literature and Media: From Page to Screen
FLMC75H3 Freaks and Geeks: Children in Contemporary Film and Media
FLMC78H3 Dystopian Visions in Fiction and Film
FLMC79H3 Above & Beyond: Superheroes in Fiction and Film
FLMC82H3 Topics in Cinema Studies
FLMC83H3 World Cinema
FLMC84H3 Cinema and Migration
FLMC92H3 Film Theory
FLMC93H3 Gender and Sexuality at the Movies
FLMC95H3 Indian Cinemas: Bollywood, Before and Beyond
FLMD52H3 Cinema: The Auteur Theory
FLMD62H3 Topics in Postcolonial Literature and Film
FLMD91H3 Avant-Garde Cinema
FLMD93H3 Theoretical Approaches to Cinema
FLMD94H3 Stranger than Fiction: The Documentary Film
FLMD96H3 Iranian Cinema
4. 1.5 additional credits in English
Note: Film courses selected from other departments and discipline will be approved for the Minor in Literature and Film Studies on a case-by-case basis.
For more details on program requirements, visit the UTSC Calendar. Questions about the program should be directed to Professor Alice Maurice (alice.maurice@utoronto.ca).
Interested in learning more about how our courses are structured and how you might develop your own path through your Minor in Film Studies? Visit our Routes and Threads page.