The program is comprised of researchers dedicated to the study of cinema, video, television, radio and digital media, specialists in aesthetics, literature, history, visual arts, architecture, social sciences, cinema and communication who research cinema and audiovisual media as a diversified system of practices and ideas, each with their own specific processes of reflection, creation, production and broadcasting.

This field of academic specialization brings together professors and researchers, the work of which, based on different theoretical perspectives, revolves around a variety of audiovisual objects and focuses on these object’s constitution and empirical existence. The field broaches the studies that are concerned with poetic articulations, with semiotic meanings, aesthetical expressions, with critique, historical analysis, the articulations between production and the dissemination of knowledge, of public policies and the sector’s economy, and how these perspectives are articulated in written work, in the orientation of students, and in specialized seminars, as well as in audiovisual productions that endeavor in some way to dialogue and come up with parameters that enrich all forms of audiovisual expressions.

The  lines of research endeavor to group these different approaches in a way as to consolidate already established groups and to stimulate groups to be constituted.