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This course combines the theory and history of cinema with the study of the industry and craft of filmmaking, and gives you the opportunity to explore your interests in the history of film, global cinema, and contemporary film and its key role in modern society.
Through the core module (Film Arts and Industries), you’ll be acquainted with the theoretical, historical and cultural approaches to the medium of film and institution of cinema, and you’ll investigate the variety of skills and activities around film as an art, as well as cinema as an industry.
The independent project will allow you to specialise in your own interests in a way that will serve your intellectual and creative aspirations and career goals. Working with a specialist academic, you can choose to write a dissertation based on research into a film/cinema topic, or you can choose to combine a shorter dissertation with a creative or practice-based activity appropriate to your interests and skills.
A bachelor degree with a 2:1 (hons)
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Upon graduation, your prospects for employment in the film and media and creative sectors will be enhanced, as well as your capacity for creative self-employment. This course will offer you a route to postgraduate research, including doctoral study, and you will also be well-placed to develop careers in education in a context of growing demand for specialist film and media educators in many parts of the world.
Year 1 compulsory modules
Module Name Credits
Film Arts and Industries 60
Independent Project 60
Year 1 optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)
Module Name Credits
Transnational East Asian Cinemas 30
So Where do you come from? Selves, Families, Stories 30
Postcolonialism, Animals and the Environment 30
Current Enquiries into Film Studies 30
Cinema in the Digital Era 30
Film Programming for Venues and Streaming: Curation in the Digital Age 30
Individual Project 30
Critical Debates in Culture and Place 30
The Creative Economy in Global Contexts 30
Arts and Activism 30
Digital and Intermedial Storytelling 30
Script Development for Film and Television 30
The Costumed Body: Performance, Performativity and Politics 30
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