SMCS undertakes research in the following broad areas:

• Film and Television Studies
• Documentary Film and Media Representation
• Media Censorship
• Media Representation of Marginalised Groups
• Urbanism, Gender and Public Space
• Globalisation, Sexuality and Questions of Representation
• Young Women and Feminism
• Political Economy of Media
• Participatory Media Democratic Decentralisation
• Micro- Level Planning and Local Self Governance
• Globalisation and its implications for culture
• New Media and ICTs
• Community Media
• Digital Cultures
• Regional Cinemas of India
• Independent and Art Cinema
• Popular Visual Culture
• Film Production and Distribution
• Transnational Film Cultures
• Cinephilia and Film Festivals
• Working class and media representations
• Feminist Media Studies
• Journalism Studies
• Politics of Knowledge Production
• Academic Mobilities
• Research Cultures
• Digital Cultures
• Studies on Hindi Cinema