To achieve the goal of institutionalizing Film and Media Studies, the Center for Cinema and Media Studies defines two core directions for its scholarly activities:
the further development of traditional film studies, and the incorporation of new objects and methodologies emerging from adjacent fields of media and art studies.
And we establish establishes six major areas of activity and corresponding plans aligned with these two core directions.

The further development of
traditional film studies

Film and Media Histories

History of Korean film / classical and modern cinema as media histories

Contemporary Global Cinema

Aesthetics and politics of transnational and regional cinema

Post-Cinema Studies

Screens in non-theatrical environment and Platform / Digital visual effect / Non-human turn in Humatinies and film theory

Engage with adjacent fields of
media and art studies

Moving Image Art

Experimental film, documentary and essay films / Video art, Moving image installation / Shifting relationship between film and contemporary arts

Critical Digital Media Studies

Critical algorithm and AI studies / Gender and racial identity on networked media / Platform economy and social automation

Crisis and Media

Anthropocene and media / Environmental media, Eco-cinema / Media activism on global scale, Media Infrastructure