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Feb 1, 2024 · Founded amid the political activism and artistic experimentation of the 1960s, the School of Cinema continues to celebrate cinematic expressions that challenge social and artistic norms. Our mission is to encourage students to engage in scholarship and to pursue all forms of cinema production.
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Master of Fine Arts in Cinema. Our M.F.A. program offers rigorous, professional training in cinema production in conjunction with an understanding of cinema history, theory and aesthetics.
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Graduates of the program have gone on to earn doctoral degrees at prestigious schools such as UCLA, UC Berkeley, Harvard, Glasgow University, Concordia University, UT Austin, Indiana University, University of Iowa, and UC Santa Barbara, among others. Some hold tenure-track positions at universities around the world.
Graduates have secured successful careers as managers of local and regional media arts organizations, curators at art museums and film festivals, and as media archivists and librarians.
Graduates have found work in the entertainment and digital media industries, holding positions as journalists and reviewers, studio archivists, audience analysts, producers, and creative executives, among others.
Students in the Bachelor of Arts in Cinema program complete introductory courses in cinema history, theory, and production. They proceed to advanced classes across the field of cinema, including media and culture, animation, experimental film, documentary filmmaking, fiction filmmaking, and screenwriting.
The School of Cinema is an academic unit in the College of Liberal & Creative Arts at San Francisco State University, a public research university in San Francisco. It has Bachelor of Arts, a Master of Arts, and Master of Fine Arts in cinema programs.
The B.A. in Cinema strives to enable students to: Acquire basic skills in the critical analysis of films, focused by the analysis of representative film texts from a range of periods and cultures. Relate cinema to the production, distribution, and exhibition industries, the other arts, and to society.
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Jan 10, 2024 · It was the only CSU -- CSUN recently joining the ranks -- on the list for a longtime, making it the most prestigious yet cheapest 4-year university option on the list. This is a public school of cinema over 40 years old and while it has plenty of character developed over that time, the facade remains the same.