Motto | Limes regiones rerum |
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Motto in English
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Reality ends here |
Type | Private film school |
Established | 1929 |
Endowment | $200 million |
Dean | Elizabeth M. Daley Ph.D. (1991-Present) |
Academic staff
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96 full time 219 part time |
Administrative staff
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144 full time 499 student workers |
Undergraduates | 876 |
Postgraduates | 715 |
Location | Los Angeles, California, United States |
Website | cinema.usc.edu |
The USC School of Cinematic Arts (formerly the USC School of Cinema-Television, or CNTV) is a private film school within the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, in the U.S. state of California. The school offers multiple undergraduate and graduate programs covering production, screenwriting, critical studies, animation and digital arts, and interactive media & games. Additional advanced programs include the Media Arts and Practice PhD Program, the Peter Stark Producing Program, and the Business of Entertainment (offered in conjunction with the USC Marshall School of Business MBA Program).
It is the oldest and largest such school in the United States, established in 1929 as a joint venture with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and has been ranked as one of the best film programs in the world on several occasions.
The school's founding faculty include Douglas Fairbanks, D. W. Griffith, William C. DeMille, Ernst Lubitsch, Irving Thalberg, and Darryl Zanuck. Notable professors include Drew Casper, the Alma and Alfred Hitchcock Professor of American Film; Tomlinson Holman, inventor of THX; film critic and historian Leonard Maltin; and David Bondelevitch, President of the Motion Picture Sound Editors.