Studing the film text - form, acting, costume, music ; Classic film theory and semiotics; Formalism and semiotics, impreosionism, surrealism; Film and psychoanalysis; Post-structuralism and deconstruction; Film and postmodernism ; Film text and context: gender, ideology and identities - Marxism, Feminism, Gay and lesbian criticism, Queer theory, Pornography ; American cinema and Hollywood ; World cinema - Italian, French, German, British, Ireland, Australian, Canadian, Indian, Chenese, Hong Kong, Taiwanese, Japanese, African, South American cinema