BA English and Film Studies
Entry requirements
A level: AAB (specific subject requirements) BTEC: We will consider the level 3 QCF BTEC at Subsidiary Diploma level and above in combination with other qualifications. Please contact the Admissions Office for more information. IB: 35 points overall including 16 at Higher Level with 6 in English at Higher Level.
About this course
BA in English and Film Studies, a joint honours degree spanning English Literature and Film Studies and BA (Hons) Photography. Core topics include Programming. The course is offered by the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies with the Centre for World Cinemas and Digital Cultures, and students can choose to take a work placement year or a study abroad year. Following foundational studies, the first year establishes core concepts through compulsory modules such as Reading Between the Lines, Literature, Culture and Critique, Introduction to Film Studies I, and Introduction to Film Studies II. Year two advances critical competencies through Critical Approaches to Screen Studies. The final year focuses on advanced enquiry with the compulsory module Current Enquiries into Film Studies. Optional modules span medieval literature, creative writing, global film genres, and gender and sexuality in cinema, alongside independent projects such as a final-year project or textual editing.
Modules
- Reading Between the Lines
- Literature, Culture and Critique
- Introduction to Film Studies I
- Introduction to Film Studies II
- Introduction to Audio-Visual Culture
- Worlds of Literature
- Drama: Text and Performance
- Modern Fictions in English: Conflict, Liminality, Translation
- Poetry: Reading and Interpretation
- Race, Writing and Decolonization
- Directing World Cinemas
- Film Music
- Critical Approaches to Screen Studies
- Screening Antiquity
- Cinematic Themes
- Chinese Cinema
- Japanese Cinema in the World
- Language in Society
- Cursing and Courtesy: (im)politeness in English
- Language Policy, Planning, and Politics
- Body Language: Literature and Embodiment
- Language of the Media
- American Words, American Worlds
- Postcolonial Literature
- Contemporary Literature
- Modern Literature
- Other Voices: Rethinking Nineteenth-Century Literature
- The World Before Us: Literature 1660–1830
- Life, Love and Death from Chaucer to Marlowe
- Women’s Authorship in World Cinema
- From Brazil to Africa: World Cinemas in Portuguese
- Introduction to German Cinema
- The Video Essay: Theory and Practice
- Cinema in France: The Seventh Art
- Film Programming and Exhibition: Curating for Cinemas and Festivals
- Questioning Genre in World Cinemas
- Issues in Hispanic Cinema
- Towards the Future: Skills in Context
- Social Class across Cultures
- Black Europe
- Reception, Transmission and Translation: The Global Circulation of Literature
- Global Environmental Humanities
- Digital Communications Across Cultures
- Current Enquiries into Film Studies
- Textual Editing Project
- Final Year Project
- Screening Antiquity
- Film Theory and Aesthetics
- Writing Modern Sexualities
- Shakespeare
- Sex and Suffering in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
- Writing and Gender in Seventeenth-Century England
- Romantic Lyric Poetry
- Narratives of Witchcraft and Magic
- Forming Victorian Fiction
- Angry Young Men and Women: Literature of the Mid-Twentieth Century
- Bowie, Reading, Writing
- Hollywood and its Others
- Queer Films on Global Screens
- Cinema in the Digital Era
- Social Movements across Cultures