哈佛大学电影的研究在视听经验的多学科检查中发挥作用。从雨果·曼斯特伯格（HugoMünsterberg）的突破性进军到对运动图像的心理接受以及鲁道夫·阿恩海姆（Rudolf Arnheim）对“视觉思维”的开创性研究，到保罗·萨克斯将电影纳入哈佛美术的学术和策展重点以及斯坦利·卡维尔（Stanley Cavell）对媒体的哲学方法，哈佛大学一直保持着与电影及其所涉及的文化，视觉，空间和哲学问题有关的杰出传统。视觉与环境研究系和木匠视觉艺术中心着重于当代艺术的实验以及从业者与评论家之间的创造性合作，为电影和
The study of film at Harvard functions within the multi-disciplinary examination of audio-visual experience. From Hugo Münsterberg's pathbreaking forays into the psychological reception of moving images and Rudolf Arnheim's seminal investigations of ''visual thinking'' to Paul Sachs's incorporation of film into the academic and curatorial focus of the fine arts at Harvard and Stanley Cavell's philosophical approaches to the medium, Harvard has sustained a distinguished tradition of engaging cinema and the cultural, visual, spatial, and philosophical questions that it raises. With their emphases on experimentation in the contemporary arts and creative collaboration among practitioners and critics, the Department of Art, Film and Visual Studies and the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts provide a singular and unparalleled site for advanced research in Film and Visual Studies. The program aims to foster critical understanding of the interactions between the making of and thinking about film and video, between studio art, performance, and visual culture, and between different arts and pursuits whose objects are audio-visual entities. The Carpenter Center also supports a lively research culture, including the Film and Visual Studies Colloquium and a Film and Visual Studies Workshop for advanced doctoral students, as well as lecture series and exhibitions featuring distinguished artists, filmmakers, and scholars.<br><br>Interdisciplinary in its impetus, the program draws on and consolidates course offerings in departments throughout the Faculty of Arts and Sciences which consider film and the spatial arts in all their various countenances and investigate the place of visual arts within a variety of contexts. Graduate students may also take advantage of the significant resources of the Harvard Film Archive, which houses a vast collection of 16mm and 35mm film prints as well as rare video materials, vintage film posters, photographs, and promotional materials. The Harvard Film Archive furthers the artistic and academic appreciation of moving image media within the Harvard and the New England community, offering a setting where students and faculty can interact with filmmakers and artists. The archive also houses a Film Conservation Center that allows the archive's conservator and staff to accession new films as well as to preserve its significant collections of independent, international, and silent films.