BA Film Studies
Entry requirements
A level: ABB IB: 33 with no score less than 4. BTEC: Applications encouraged. We evaluate each BTEC application on its merits.
About this course
BA (Hons) in Film Studies. Core topics include Research Methods. Students examine global cinema history, media industries, film theories, and screen cultures across the three years.
Modules
- INTRODUCTION TO FILM LANGUAGE
- GLOBAL FILM HISTORY: EARLY CINEMA TO THE 1950S
- APPROACHES TO FILM
- GLOBAL FILM HISTORY II: 1960S TO THE PRESENT
- MEDIA INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS B
- CLOSE READING
- INTRODUCTION TO STYLISTICS
- BEGINNERS CATALAN
- BEGINNERS CHINESE
- BEGINNERS FRENCH
- UPPER-INTERMEDIATE FRENCH
- BEGINNERS GERMAN
- UPPER-INTERMEDIATE GERMAN
- BEGINNERS ITALIAN
- UPPER-INTERMEDIATE ITALIAN
- BEGINNERS SPANISH
- UPPER-INTERMEDIATE SPANISH
- BEGINNERS PORTUGUESE
- INTRODUCTION TO SOUND AND MUSIC IN AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA
- COMMUNICATION, CULTURE, AND MEDIA ANALYSIS B
- FILM THEORIES
- SCREEN CULTURES
- THE CINEMATIC CITY
- ENTER THE DRAGON: CHINESE CINEMA, POPULAR TV AND CONTEMPORARY ART
- WEIMAR FILM AND LITERATURE: THE CITY AND MODERNITY
- SPANISH AND LATIN AMERICAN CINEMAS: AN INTRODUCTION
- PLACEMENT YEAR PREPARATION
- MUSIC IN GAMING
- INTRODUCTION TO FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE CINEMA
- FILM STUDIES WORK PLACEMENT
- PROPAGANDA AND CENSORSHIP
- THE ITALIAN CINEMA
- GLOBAL HOLLYWOOD AND BEYOND: FROM THE MAINSTREAM TO THE MARGINS
- UNDERSTANDING DOCUMENTARY
- COMPOSITION FOR FILM, TELEVISION AND GAMES
- COMPOSITION FOR DIGITAL GAMES
- MUSIC IN WORLD CINEMA
- FILM DISSERTATION
- RESEARCHING DIGITAL CULTURES IN THE AMERICAS
- NEW TRENDS IN ITALIAN CINEMA: MAFIA, GENDER, MIGRATION AND ECO-CINEMA
- BERLIN/HOLLYWOOD: DIALOGUES BETWEEN GERMAN AND US CINEMA
- FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE FILM: AESTHETICS AND MEDIA
- TERROR REMEMBERED: REPRESENTING TRAUMATIC HISTORIES IN LATIN AMERICA, EUROPE AND ASIA
- REMEMBERING SLAVERY
- STARDOM AND MEDIA CELEBRITY
- QUEER FILM, VIDEO AND DOCUMENTARY
- FROM KUNG FU TO ANIME: TRAJECTORIES IN EAST ASIAN CINEMA
- TRANSNATIONAL CINEMA
- SCREENING SPAIN: CONTEMPORARY SPANISH FILM AND TELEVISION
- COMICS AND GRAPHIC NOVELS: MEMORY AND TRANSCULTURAL MOBILITY
- SCREENING TEXTS
- THE FILM MUSIC OF JOHN WILLIAMS