Centered on evolving storytelling forms, the Film and Media Studies Major focuses on media production, theory, and business. Students gain expertise in video and audio production, animation, graphic and motion design, photography, and writing about and for media forms. This is coupled with learning the business skills necessary to promote, market, sell, brand, and distribute media. Our courses teach how the media landscape operates as a powerful form of communication in our culture.
Majors are encouraged to complete a media internship or capstone project and will have the flexibility to study abroad. Our state-of-the-art Film and Media Studies Lab gives students hands-on experiences in all forms of filmmaking, postproduction techniques, photography, screenwriting, podcasting, and graphic design.
New majors can join our alumni in exploring career opportunities that span the many areas of media production, as well as media marketing, advertising, finance, entertainment law, accounting, management, and publishing. Our program has established relationships with internships and companies such as Dreamworks Studios, Amblin Entertainment, Disney+, MTV Networks, Allen & Gerritsen, Mullen, Hill Holiday, Bose, Spike TV Digital, Arnold Worldwide, Dick Clark Productions, Marvel Comics, Netflix, Major League Soccer, Charlesbridge Publishing, WGBH, ABC, CBS, NBC, Picture Park, Mark Jacobs, Chanel, Christian Louboutin, Fox News, Boston Casting, Sony Music Entertainment, and the Cannes Film Festival Student Internship Programs.
by the Numbers
$58K
Film and Media Studies Median Starting Salary
Bentley University CareerEdge
95%
Film and Media Studies Job Placement Rate
Bentley University CareerEdge
90%
of students complete at least one internship
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Films, Franchises, and Fandom: Superheroes in Popular Culture (EMS 406)
In the last 15 years, Hollywood has produced an extensive catalog of films and television programs, particularly developed by the Marvel Cinematic Universe, that has fundamentally transformed prior notions of rigid representations of the superhero archetype. And as a lucrative and successful industry franchise that is dependent on fandom, it feeds from a desire produced by its ardent audiences to tell stories of enhanced heroes who are as equally flawed, fallible, and vulnerable as the rest of us but where perseverance, acceptance, and redemption shows itself to be obtainable.
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