埃默里大学电影研究系提供有关电影理论，历史和批评方法的独立式文学硕士课程。该计划旨在培养学生精明和区别于电影和媒体艺术的批评家和分析家的能力，通过了解电影和媒体理论中的哲学和美学辩论加强他们的批判性思维，并为学生提供电影和电影方面的全面知识。媒体历史是文化表达的动态形式。
The Department of Film Studies at Emory University offers a free-standing M.A. Program in the methodologies of film theory, history, and criticism. The program trains its students to be astute and discriminating critics and analysts of film and media art, it strengthens their critical thinking through an awareness of the philosophical and aesthetic debates in film and media theory, and it provides students with a thorough knowledge of cinema and media history as a dynamic form of cultural expression.