MA in History of Arts - Cinema and Media Studies in Philadelphia United States | University of Pennsylvania

The Art History program at Penn explores the extensive legacy of projected, reproducible, and moving imagery. Faculty members in the History of Art graduate group actively teach and conduct research in this field, featuring scholars such as Shira Brisman (Early Modern), Julie Nelson Davis (Japanese prints and film), Andr Dombrowski (19th-century photography and print culture), Sonal Khullar (photography, 20th- and 21st-century film and moving-image art), Michael Leja (mass media, including print culture, photography, and early cinema), Kevin Platt (Soviet film), Karen Redrobe (cinema, photography, video, and media theory), Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw (North American and Latin American film, critical race theory), Chenshu Zhou (Chinese cinema and film exhibition), and Liliane Weissberg (Frankfurt School). Students also collaborate with core Cinema and Media Studies faculty, including Peter Decherney (American film history, copyright, and media policy), Meta Mazaj (Balkan cinema, global art cinema, and film festivals), and Rahul Mukherjee (South Asian and African cinema, media ecology).