BA Film Studies
Entry requirements
A level: ABB BTEC: DDM IB: 34 points overall with 16 at Higher Level.
About this course
BA in Film Studies, a film studies degree examining global screen culture, film form, and historical contexts. Core topics include Programming. The course includes a compulsory final-year project and offers options for a work placement year or a study abroad year. The first year introduces foundational concepts through compulsory modules such as Introduction to Film Studies I, Introduction to Film Studies II, and Introduction to Audio-Visual Culture. The second year shifts focus to methodology with Critical Approaches to Screen Studies, alongside optional choices exploring regional cinemas and topics like Film Programming and Exhibition: Curating for Cinemas and Festivals. The final year involves advanced independent study through Current Enquiries into Film Studies and the Final Year Project, complemented by optional modules covering international cinema movements and digital-era film developments.
Modules
- Introduction to Film Studies I
- Introduction to Film Studies II
- Introduction to Audio-Visual Culture
- Directing World Cinemas
- Film Music
- Critical Approaches to Screen Studies
- Chinese Cinema
- Women’s Authorship in World Cinema
- Introduction to German Cinema
- Cinema in France: The Seventh Art
- Film Programming and Exhibition: Curating for Cinemas and Festivals
- Screening Italy: Neorealist cinema to Netflix
- Questioning Genre in World Cinemas
- Issues in Hispanic Cinema
- Black Europe
- Global Environmental Humanities
- Digital Communications Across Cultures
- Current Enquiries into Film Studies
- Final Year Project
- Japanese Cinema in the World
- Post-War European Cinema: History, Politics and Aesthetics
- Hollywood and its Others
- Queer Films on Global Screens
- Cinema in the Digital Era
- Adventures of the Imagination: Crime and the Fantastic Across Continents
- Decolonial Approaches