डॉ. बी. आर. अम्बेडकर विश्वविद्यालय दिल्ली 
Academic analysis of cinema began internationally as early as the 1960s and was most often associated with English literature departments. In India, however, a scholarly attention to cinema began in the early eighties but SCCE’s MA Film Studies Programme is among the very few of its kind in the country. Cinema in India has had, of course, a long history – of indigenous production and consumption of films from around the world. Indian mainstream cinema is known for specific narrative features (song and dance sequences, melodramatic appeal) and its place in the socio-cultural life of India as well as its transnational movement and popularity. Slowly but steadily, over the last twenty years there has been an intensification of the study of Indian cinema and cinematic cultures in India.
SCCE’s MA Film Studies Programme builds upon this tradition while not losing sight of the several layered histories of cinema as a global art form. It focuses on the task of studying cinema in India in all its varieties in a global comparativist mode without subscribing to any pre-set hierarchy of aesthetic merit and artistic excellence. While keeping this focus intact, it does not preclude the study of other national cinemas or cinema and culture industries. The programme seeks to bridge the gap between a philosophical understanding of film as an art form and the cultural studies understanding of its role as mass media by drawing on the rich theoretical legacies of Benjamin, Kracauer, Deleuze, among others. Particular attention is paid to the multi-sited production and consumption of film in India so as to promote an understanding of the pluralisation of film culture in India. The programme is invested in fostering historical, anthropological and textual analysis of cinema paying close attention to its embedded nature in social and political history. Simultaneously, the programme also encourages an engagement of cinema in an intermedial frame, allowing cinema to become a way of entering questions of TV, radio, video and digital cultures.
While focusing upon a historical and theoretical understanding of film, the programme also tries to promote film-making practice through courses and workshops as necessary. In order to facilitate research and writing skills, the programme runs regular academic writing workshops for students.