Film Studies
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.
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.
Expert Faculty
Film Studies Program
Telephone: 407.646.2320
William Boles, PhD
Jeanette McKean Professor
Research interests: Drama and screenwriting
Lisa Tillmann, PhD
Professor of Critical Media & Cultural Studies
Research interests: Activism, social justice documentary filmmaking, and civil rights
Susan Libby, PhD
Professor 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, PhD
Associate Professor of Critical Media & Cultural Studies
Research interests: Documentary production, theory and criticism, and media representations of gender and sexuality