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A fact from Film studies appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 November 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that film studies are less concerned with filmmaking than with exploring the narrative, artistic, cultural, economic, and political implications of cinema?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/November.

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I'd suggest that film studies be separated from film theory, to which it currently redirects.

Film studies is an academic discipline that may include theory, but it may also be oriented to criticism or history. --Jeremy Butler 20:38, 19 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This is well researched and well written, you do a really good job of providing an overview of a broad topic. My advice is really just to rewrite some of the sentences, occasionally they sound a little weird or not too clear. But overall this is really good Seanquigley (talk) 20:01, 18 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Great job capturing the essence of film studies and its growth and development over the years. Well-organized article with lots of diverse material. 1) I'd like to see a sentence or two telling us what the relevance of the list of people are to the discipline. Perhaps they should be divided into two groups -- film critics/academics and filmmakers?

2) This sentence (in the first part after the opening) doesn't really make sense. "Film studies as an academic discipline is a twentieth-century concept that has not been intertwined with origins and History of Film." I think it is because of the reference to the entry History of Film, but it would be good to fix it. There are a few other sentences that could be written more clearly as well.

Nice job on this rather large subject. Radavis147 (talk) 16:56, 24 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Factual Error: In the 'World Film Studies' section, this article states "Due to the high cost of film production third world countries are left out of the film industry" - I suspect this reflects a 'US-centric' worldview, very common on wikipedia. It reflects poorly on the whole article. The Nigerian film industry pumps out more films than the US, though mostly of very poor quality, and is second only to the Indian industry. To quote from the wikipedia page on 'cinema of nigeria'; "The cinema of Nigeria grew quickly in the 1990s and 2000s to become the second largest film industry in the world in terms of number of annual film productions, placing it ahead of the United States and behind the Indian film industry". Would someone like to correct this? If not, I will do it in time, when I have more time. FiveDavid

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Hi my name is Joe K I am a student at Georgetown University part of the Wikiproject United States Public Policy and over the next two months I am going to be adding to this article so heads up and I would really appreciate the communities help.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Joko123nm (talk • contribs) 14:47, October 7, 2010 (UTC)