BA Film Studies
Entry requirements
A level: BBC in three A Levels. IB: 554 in three Higher Levels or 29 points.
About this course
BA (Hons) in Film Studies, combining critical analysis with hands-on creative practice. Core topics include Research Methods and Design & Creative Practice. An Extended Research Project in Film Studies allows specialisation through a dissertation, video essay or other format in the final year. The course offers optional placement years and access to editing suites, photographic studios and sound design facilities.
Modules
- Filmmaking Fundamentals
- Sights and Sounds: Analysing Film
- Animating the Screen
- Becoming a Cultural Citizen
- History in Media and Film: The Presentation of the Past in Contemporary Culture
- Writing Scripts
- The Power of Cinematic Representation
- Global Cinemas: Beyond Hollywood
- Screenwriting: Principles and Practices
- Teenage Dreams: Youth Subcultures in Fiction and Film
- The American South: US Summer School (Level 5)
- Documentary Film
- Professional Experience for Film (Year 2)
- Pathways with Film: Developing Your Profile
- Creative Arts and Humanities in Society
- Extended Research Project in Film Studies
- Britain on Film: Trends, Themes, Debates
- Youth and Film: Growing Up on Screen
- Extended Screenwriting Project
- Shakespeare on Film
- In the Matrix: Postmodernism in Fiction, Film and Theory
- The Apocalypse will be Televised: Extinction on Film since 1945
- Social Media Work
- The American South: US Summer School (Level 6)
- Professional Experience for Film (Year 3)
- Employing Film: Putting Your Subject into Practice