For Undergraduate English Majors
As an English major, you design your own concentration — a program of study based on your areas of interest, organized around a controlling theme or topic — with the help of your advisor. Below are some recommendations for students interested in this area.
Recommended Courses
- ENGL 213E: Intro to Film History
- ENGL 219: Film Genre
- ENGL 239: Film Directors
- ENGL 269: Film Period
- ENGL 349: National Cinemas
- ENGL 373: Film Theory and Criticism
- ENGL 413/813: Film
- ENGL 439/839: Film Directors
- ENGL 498: Legal and Business Aspects of Creative Acts
Recommended Experiences
Internships, Volunteering, Publishing, etc.
- Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center in Lincoln
- Film Streams in Omaha
- Dundee Theatre in Omaha
- Lied Center Internship
- “Humanities on the Edge” lectures
- UCARE with film professors
- Consider Theatre or other related minors
- Consider English as a second major
Recommended Reading
Journals, Blogs, Books, Etc.
- Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture
- Cinema Journal
- Quarterly Review of Film and Video
- Film Quarterly
- Film Comment
- Film Criticism
- Cineaste
- Senses of Cinema
- A Short History of Film, 3rd Ed. by Wheeler Winston Dixon and Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
- The Film Theory Reader: Debates and Arguments
- Film Theory: An Introduction through the Senses
- Global Art Cinema, Rosalind Galt and Karl Schoonover, eds.
Writers to Know:
- Valérie Orlando
- Patrice Petro
- Steven Shaviro
- David Sterritt
Career Opportunities
- Archivist for Museums or Film Studios
- Teacher
- Researcher
- Writer/Screenwriter
- Event Planning: Film & Theatre Festivals
- Entertainment Lawyer
- Audiovisual Production
- Grant writer/Non-profit Administration
- Agent or Agent's Assistant
- Literary Acquisitions for Film Studios
- Film Director or Producer
Student Success Stories
- Assistant Professor, Tenure Track, London School of Economics
- Librarian, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
- Production Manager, BuzzFeed Motion Pictures
- Student Films Presented at Cannes Film Festival
- Film Director, feature film – Bota (entry for Best Foreign Language Film, 88th Academy Awards)
- Special Effects CGI Director for Steven Spielberg
- Screenwriting for film and television
- Associate Professor of Film Studies, York College
- Associate Professor, Department of English and Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Texas at Austin.
- Film Archivist, UCLA Film and TV Archive
- Graduate School, Columbia University, New York
- Location Director for television series – Shots Fired and Outcast on Fox and Cinemax
- CEO, Far From Everything Films – feature film production, Beast No More
- Producer of feature film, Lords of Dogtown
- Producer, Grindstone Entertainment, Lionsgate subsid.– 43 feature films to date
- Sound Mixer
- Assistant Director
- Tenured Full Professor, Queen’s College, NY
- Entertainment Reporter, Omaha World Herald
- Columnist, Omaha World Herald
Professors to Know
- Marco Abel
- James Brunton
- Kwakiutl Dreher
- Michael Page
- Dr. Richard Dooling (College of Law)