Through an emphasis on history and theory, texts and practices, the doctoral program in Cinema Studies will address the protean nature of cinema.  Key transformative forces — aesthetic, social, industrial and technological — have defined cinema’s past and continue to shape its present and its future.  Now more than ever, academic investigation of the multi-faceted phenomenon of moving image media is required to put these forces into historical context, to define their theoretical implications and to chart their socio-cultural ramifications.