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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.

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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.

Photogallery of CAMS events 2024-2025

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...

Body Modification and Gender Anarchy in Media Theory and Practice

Call for Papers for MAST Special Issue with deadline on May 31st. Guest Editors:Bernadette Wegenstein (Johns Hopkins University)Cla Calabresi (Johns Hopkins University) This special issue of MAST Journal explores practices of the body and embodiment in relation to media theory...

Patricia White Residency with CAMS

We are delighted to announce Patricia White’s Residency for CAMS, featuring two events between April 10th & 11th, 2025. Cinefeminism in the 1970’s: Transnational Films About Abortion (lecture & screening)in conversation with Professor Mary Fissell (History) April 10th5:30 PMGilman 208...