The contemporary era is characterized by the growing centrality of visual media. We increasingly experience our communication environment through screens, interfaces and visual images. Film, photography and television - as the dominant media of the 20th century - continue to exist and make an impact, expanding into new platforms on the internet and social media, and integrated with additional technologies such as computer vision and virtual reality.

The research of department faculty in this area is devoted to the analysis of cinematic, audio-visual, photographic and digital images, forms and media, using a combination of traditional methods and innovative research approaches and theories. Our aim is to understand the philosophical, moral, cultural, social and political implications of visual media.

Research topics of department faculty members include:

Dr. Tobias Ebbrecht Hartmann

* The visual history of the Holocaust: the use, appropriation and distribution of archive films in the digital age

* Sensing the past: The resonance of the past in media and memory spaces

* Audio-visual composition: multi-modal engagement in teaching and research

Prof. Paul Frosh

* Digital visual culture: images, screens and interfaces

* Photography in the age of smartphones and social media

* Stock photography and photography theory

Prof. Raya Morag

* Chinese cinema after the Cultural Revolution

Perpetrator cinema

* The representation of conqueror's trauma in world documentary film

Prof. Aner Preminger

* The ethical and reflexive practice of film director Krzysztof Kieślowski

* Image, soundtrack and intertextuality

* Identity issues and immigration in Israeli cinema