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The Center for Advanced Media Studies (CAMS) facilitates the historical, cultural, and linguistic analysis of how ideas are communicated in the mass media through events, courses, lectures, workshops, screenings, and artist residencies. CAMS focuses on transnational cinema and visual media arts, offering a critical gaze to the newest areas of research in postcolonialist, feminist and queer film studies.

CAMS offers a graduate certificate for PhD students in all humanities disciplines, and hosts residencies and lectures with the most prominent film theorists and directors in the field.

Explore the Center

Earn a Graduate Certificate

The Graduate Certificate Program in Film and Media educates doctoral candidates in the theory, aesthetics, and history of film, video, and other audiovisual media.

Become A Fellow

Fellows, who can come from any discipline in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, focus on a media-related aspect of their research and studies during the fellowship.

Upcoming Events and Residencies

For the academic year 2024-2025, CAMS will host several scholars in the field of Media Theory and award-winners directors and producers working on the international stage.