<p>Hi. I am looking to apply to a school that is very strong in film studies. I understand that USC, UPItt, Boston College, and UC Sandiago all have outstanding programs in undergraduate film studies. If anyone out there has any other suggestions I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks</p>
<p>NYU and UCLA are the two biggies you missed.</p>
<p>Thanks bananainpyjamas. Anyone else have any suggestions for critical film studies?</p>
<p>Berkeley has a good film program too. Great movie scene in and around campus too.</p>
<p>USC Critical Studies majors are required and able to take a large number of production and screenwriting courses if that is of interest to you. There is not a whole bunch of segregation between the three majors in CNTV.</p>
<p>Wisconsin has a good film critical studies program. Not much in producton.</p>
<p><a href="http://commarts.wisc.edu/Under/RTF.htm%5B/url%5D">http://commarts.wisc.edu/Under/RTF.htm</a></p>
<p>i think the biggest three are NYU, USC, and UCLA. I am pretty sure the top two are USC and NYU, or atleast the film kids at my school hold those in high regard. Someone from my school is going to NYU for film study. I know he does A LOT of great work making videos for our news show and you can tell he has a creative mind. Maybe i'll ask him what he felt helped him the most.</p>
<p>I agree that NYU, USC and UCLA are the three heavyweights. All three are outstanding, but the difference, I believe, is that you enter the major at USC and NYU as a freshman, whereas at UCLA you have enter as a junior, which means that just because you got into UCLA doesn't mean you'll get into the film school. I'm sure they're all very competitive to get into, but I know from friends who tried (and failed) to get into the UCLA program that it is really, really tough to get in.</p>
<p>To follow-up what Barrons said the fim students at USC use a textbook written by, a now retired, UW professor in their primary introductory course. There is a major film festival in the spring of every year that use theaters on campus and all around the city. <a href="http://www.wifilmfest.org/%5B/url%5D">http://www.wifilmfest.org/</a></p>
<p>You know, Northwestern is pretty well known for its film program too.</p>
<p>Surely Berkeley! And UCLA film accepts about 40 people (from their juniors or sophomores, i forget) a year.</p>
<p>Check out Chapman University, in Orange, CA. Very competitive, strong program, and growing prestige.</p>
<p>Brown U. (its called Modern Culture and Media)
it breeds filmmakers like Todd Haynes (Far From Heaven with Dennis Quaid and Julianne Moore)</p>
<p>Just know that Berkeley's film program is theoretical rather than production. The Pacific Film Archive is a nice aspect to it -- & particularly since it's now back on campus, but if one wants to get into the production end in a major way, I would not necessarily recommend Berkeley versus all the possible choices out there, some of which have been mentioned.
JMO</p>
<p>Suny-Purchase has a film program (BFA degree).</p>
<p>Yes epiphany, I thought that "film studies" is understandably the study of film, and production is a different category. <em>shrug</em></p>
<p>The list of writers, directors, producers and film actors to come out of Wesleyan (size:2700 u/g) is about as long as my arm:</p>
<p>Writers -</p>
<p>Akiva Goldsman - "A Beautiful Mind"**
Shari Springer Berman - "American Splendor"*
Paul Weitz - "About A Boy"*
Joss Whedon - "Toy Story"*
Mike White - "School of Rock"</p>
<p>Directors -</p>
<p>Michael Bay - "The Rock" "Bad Boys"
John Turteltaub - "While You Were Sleeping"
Miguel Arteta - "The Good Girl"</p>
<p>Actors -</p>
<p>Brad Whitford
Dana Delaney</p>
<p><em>Academy Award Nominee
*</em> Academy Award Winner</p>
<p>just to clarify... UCLA takes 30, fifteen from current students and fifteen from transfers. the program is only the junior and senior years, so you apply at the end of sophomore year</p>
<p>there's a difference between film studies and film production.</p>
<p>film production: go to nyu, usc, ucla, fsu, afi, etc.
film studies (more critical, theoritical, in many schools is rooted in an english or literature department): yale, harvard, columbia (not too many production courses until junior or senior year OR grad school). a lot of top schools have good and growing film studies department. i know duke's and williams' seem to be growing, etc.</p>