BA Drama and Film & Television Studies
About this course
BA in Drama and Film & Television Studies, a film studies and drama degree centred on the historical, cultural, and practical aspects of theatre, film, and television. Core topics include Programming, Research Methods, Fieldwork, and Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. The curriculum provides opportunities for public performance and community-based activities alongside historical and theoretical investigations of world cinemas. The first year establishes foundational concepts through compulsory modules including Performance Analysis, The Creative Actor, Major Debates in Film Theory, and Interrogating Screens. In subsequent years, students select from a broad range of optional modules covering topics such as scriptwriting, acting techniques, popular performance practices, entertainment technologies, television studies, fan culture, and world cinemas.
Modules
- Performance Analysis
- The Creative Actor
- Major Debates in Film Theory
- Interrogating Screens
- Writing for Stage, Screen and Across Media
- Acting Shakespeare
- Popular Performance Practices
- Applied Drama: Touring, Directing and Facilitating
- Approaches to Acting and Contemporary Performance Making
- Entertainment Technologies
- Performing Culture: Theatre, Media, Identity
- Audiences, Participation, Immersion
- Activism and Performance
- Musicals: Critical Perspectives in Contemporary Contexts
- Creative Producing: People, Culture and Collaboration
- Voices Across Stage and Screen
- Performance in the Age of Screens: Intermedial Theatre
- Script Craft: Writing for Screen and Stage
- Shots in the Dark
- Television: Times, Trends and Technologies
- Scrublands, Sanctuary, Screens: Co-creating Knowledges alongside Donkeys
- Adaptations: Text, Image, Culture
- Fanatical: Fan Culture and Identity
- World Cinemas: Representations, Histories, Conflicts
- World Cinemas: Contexts, Environments, Industries