Perhaps these troubled students should drop film studies and instead start a degree on playing-with-your-fucking-phone studies.

Be careful what ideas you give them. If schools get such an idea they will create it with a more prestigious name and happily take peoples monies for it.

Modern informatics ?

I honestly do not know. I would be a horrible marketing person. It would probably have to tie into AI and/or Robotics somehow.

I'm a boomer and even I have to say that some of those old movies on TCM move at a g-l-a-c-i-a-l pace.