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The Film and Media Studies Program at Yale University is the hub for the study of film and other moving image and sound media at Yale. Deeply invested in scholarship, teaching and film programming, the Program nurtures innovative directions in film and media studies research. Showcasing wide-ranging scholarly interests and drawing on the university’s extraordinary collections, the FMS Program has taken its place as one of the exciting venues for film and media study in the world.

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Francesco Casetti, Sterling Professor of Humanities and Film and Media...
An update from alumna Zoë Colfax:   Over the past year, I had the...
Film and Media Studies Faculty Member Millicent Marcus among the six...

Upcoming Events

Tuesday, September 29, 2026 - 5:30pm
For close to a century, it has been thought that Sergei Eisenstein made up the famous scene of the massacre on the Odesa Steps in Battleship Potemkin (USSR 1925). Magazine...
Tuesday, September 29, 2026 - 7:00pm

MP4 File | 2016 | Directed by Brett Story | Canada | 90 minutes | English

Wednesday, September 30, 2026 - 7:00pm

DCP | 2024 | Directed by Brett Story and Stephen Maing | United States | 100 minutes | English

Winner of the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for the Art of Change at the Sundance Film...

Thursday, October 1, 2026 - 7:00pm

35mm | 1926 | Directed by Samuel Russak | United States | 70 minutes | Silent

-Millions of Us (Slavko Vorkapich, 1936) -Introduced by Tanya Goldman -The Passaic Textile Strike (Alfred...

Friday, October 2, 2026 - 10:00am

The labor film genre, which emerged in the wake of World War I, has often been invisible. The mainstream press avoided the moniker and often dismissed such films as propaganda. A common reference...