film studies vs humanities

film studies and humanities both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
film studies	Yes	No	No	No
humanities	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, humanities is a hypernym of film studies; that is, humanities is a word with a broader meaning than film studies:

film studies: an academic discipline that deals with various theoretical, historical, and critical approaches to films.
humanities: studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)

Other hypernyms of film studies include arts, humanistic discipline, liberal arts.

film studies (noun)	humanities (noun)
an academic discipline that deals with various theoretical, historical, and critical approaches to films.	studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)