This graduate seminar will focus on contemporary research on cinema, television, and new media, and related fields. During the first part of the seminar, we will read several self-referential works on screen studies that raise issues such as the practice of academic publications in film studies, the relevance of the term “cinema,” whether “film theory” should be relegated to history, and the future of the object of “moving images” and its academic field. The reading material in the second part of the seminar will be chosen by the students and instructor from journals and books published over the last decade (and significant references within these publications) that could serve the graduate students in their research.