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Cinema and Media Studies Program

The Penn Cinema and Media Studies major and minor are traditional humanities programs involving the critical study of film and media history, theory, and aesthetics. Reflecting the hybrid nature of the field of Cinema and Media Studies, our faculty members are housed in departments across SAS and the university, and we cross-list courses with various departments and schools, including Africana Studies, Anthropology, Communications, East Asian Language and Civilizations, English, Fine Arts, German, History, History of Art, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Romance Languages, Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Women’s Studies. This truly interdisciplinary program will introduce students to the wide range of methodologies used to study film and media, and this intersection with other disciplines makes Cinema and Media Studies an ideal component of a double major.


  • Footprints in the Sand
    • Ejun Mary Hong and Justin Nam Duong
      • 2025
      • College of Arts & Sciences
      • Department of Music
      • Department of Physics & Astronomy
      • Student Grant
      • Student Creative Production
      • Undergraduate Program in Fine Arts and Design
  • Palestine Writes Literature Festival: Indigenous Stories of a Fabled Homeland
    • Huda Fakhreddine and Palestine Writes
      • 2023
      • Community Partnerships
      • Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC)
      • Kelly Writers House
      • Middle East Center
      • Presenting Art Grant
      • School of Arts & Sciences
      • Wolf Humanities Center
  • Voices from Kakuma: A Collaborative Curation with FilmAid Kenya
    • Mira Kwon and Taj Swaminathan-Sipp
      • 2025
      • College of Arts & Sciences
      • Student Grant
      • Student Creative Production
  • Ethiopia’s Last Jews
    • Peter Decherney
      • 2021
      • Independent Creative Production
      • Making Art Grant
      • School of Arts & Sciences

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The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation

John McInerney (he/him)
Executive Director
215-573-0874
mcinernj@upenn.edu

Chloe Reison (she/her)
Associate Director
215-573-2159
reison@upenn.edu

Elizabeth Shaw (she/her)
Administrative Assistant
215-898-5930
elizshaw@upenn.edu

The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation offices are located at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Philadelphia PA

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