film studies
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- noun
- /fɪlm ˈstʌdiz/
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estudios de cine
- In her final year, she specialized in film studies to learn about the development and impact of cinema over the decades.
- interpretation in film studies
- recent film studies
- film studies and film theory
Examples
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Sam studied dance, drama, and film studies.
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Film studies has always been and always will be an interdisciplinary field, and this is as it should be.
Academic text (2001) -
Perhaps the more recent interests of film studies are simply not the right tools for the job.
Academic text (1997) -
And was this a philosophy course or a film studies course, or did people come from all over the the school?
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One of the most interesting developments in recent film studies, in fact, has been the emergence of sound as a prominent topic.
Academic text (1995) -
She has her PhD from Yale, and her PhD is in film studies and American studies.
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By the 1970s, film studies began to take root in colleges and universities, and schools of "new stylistics" emerged.
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The growing cachet of film studies has been accompanied, as in all emerging disciplines, by a certain amount of institutional anxiety.
Academic text (2001) -
The illustrator attends school with Kohn's daughter, Katie, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in film studies at Harvard.
Blog text (6) -
My subjective impression of current college-student tastes, as well as my experience with current research trends in film studies as an academic discipline, would seem to confirm this view.
Academic text (1997)
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the academic study of films' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'film' (movies) with 'studies' (a branch of knowledge or academic field), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer this compound noun. This noun+noun composition is cross-linguistically common (e.g. Spanish 'estudios de cine', French 'études de cinéma') and follows standard English patterns for naming academic disciplines, reinforcing its transparency.
Etymology
Film studies comes from the simple image of students watching film and studying it in class. Film means 'movies' and studies means careful learning, so 'film studies' is the school subject or field where people learn about and talk about movies.