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The media (including popular music, the internet and other forms of interactive and digital media) play a central role in our experience of the everyday world, reflecting, communicating and mediating aspects of our public and private lives. Our department engages directly with these media, providing courses that address questions of aesthetics, content, institutional organisation, audiences, social relevance, technology and production techniques.

Fostering a lively and friendly environment of intellectual inquiry and creative practice, the Department offers courses on contemporary and historical film, television and media from a range of analytical perspectives, as well as practical courses in filmmaking, television production and scriptwriting. Our teaching is based on the assumption that the mass media reflect, reveal, and shape aspects of our society and deserve to be closely studied. While the scope of our programme is resolutely international, there is a strong focus on the specific relevance of these media to Aoteoroa/New Zealand.

Rated the leading department of its kind in New Zealand, the Department of Film, Television and Media Studies brings together an impressive range of international research and teaching expertise in this vital area of study and creative practice. An informed knowledge of the media is relevant to a broad range of careers in today's highly mobile and competitive job market and our successful students have gone on to work in media production or management, or in related areas such as public policy, education (at both secondary and tertiary levels), new media businesses, writing and publishing, arts funding and management, and various other areas of the culture industries.

Film, Television and Media Studies
Email		media@auckland.ac.nz
Extension		87464 (ph + 64 9 373 7599)
Fax		+64 9 373 8764
Location		Arts 2 Building, corner of Symonds St & Grafton rd Arts 2 18 Symonds St Level 4 Room 403
Heads of Department Jagose,    Annamarie  Prof    87332  Professor and HoD Film      Directors Alexander,    Vanessa    85523  Director of Graduate Production  Jagose,    Annamarie  Prof    87332  Director of Research  Pearson,    Sarina  Dr    88900  Director of Undergraduate Studies  Simmons,    Laurence  Assoc Prof    87130   Director of Graduate Studies      Undergraduate Advisers Pearson,    Sarina  Dr    88900  Undergraduate Advisor      Postgraduate Advisers Alexander,    Vanessa    85523  Graduate Advisor (Screen Production)  Goldson,    Annie  Assoc Prof    87339  Graduate Advisor (Screen Production)   Kavka,    Misha  Dr    85351  Graduate Advisor (FTVMS)