thumb|film screening room at georgetown university, washington d.c. film studies is an academic discipline that deals with various theoretical, historical, and critical approaches to films. it is sometimes subsumed within media studies and is often compared to television studies. film studies is less concerned with advancing proficiency in film production than it is with exploring the narrative, artistic, cultural, economic, and political implications of the cinema.dyer, richard. "introduction." film studies: critical approaches. oxford: oxford up, 2000. 1-8. print. in searching for these social-ideological values, film studies takes a series of critical approaches for the analysis of production, theoretical framework, context, and creation.sikov, ed. "introduction." introduction pg.1-4. film studies: an introduction. new york: columbia up, 2010. print. google books in this sense the film studies discipline exists as one in which the teacher does not always assume the primary educator role; the featured film itself serves that function. also, in studying film, possible careers include critic or production. film theory often includes the study of conflicts between the aesthetics of visual hollywood and the textual analysis of screenplay. overall the study of film continues to grow, as does the industry on which it focuses. academic journals publishing film studies work include screen, cinema journal, and the journal of film and video. ==history== film studies as an academic discipline is a new concept in the twentieth century. the critic of film in an academic setting has not existed through the entire history of film. not to be confused with the technical aspects of film creation, film studies exists only with the creation of film theory which approaches film critically as an art. because the modern film became an invention and industry only in the late nineteenth century, a generation of simply created films by self investigative producers and directors existed significantly before the academic analysis that followed in later generations. early film schools focused on the production and subjective critique of film rather than on the critical approaches, history and theory used to study academically. since the time film was created, the concept of film studies as a whole grew to analyze the formal aspects of film as they were created. established in 1919 the moscow film school was the first school in the world to focus on film. in the united states the [[usc school of cinematic arts
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