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BA Film Studies and East Asian Studies

University of Manchester

Institution
University of Manchester
Level
undergraduate
Subject
Drama
Duration
3 years
UCAS code
PT33
Typical offer
A-level ABB

Entry requirements

A level: ABB including one essay based subject

About this course

BA in Chinese and Film Studies and BA (Hons) Photography, combining Chinese and Film Studies and BA (Hons) Photography. Core topics include Research Methods.

Modules

  • Introduction to Chinese Studies
  • The Art of Film
  • Introduction to Early Film Histories
  • Introduction to Japanese Studies
  • Introduction to World Cinema
  • Visual Cultures in China and East Asia
  • Japanese History and Civilisation
  • Empire and Culture in East Asia
  • Screen, Culture and Society
  • China's Borderlands: Culture, Ethnicity and History
  • Introduction to Classical Chinese
  • Contemporary British Cinema
  • Black on Screen
  • God at the Movies
  • Introduction to Documentary Film Practice
  • Horror Film: Genre, Periods, Styles
  • Introduction to Screenwriting
  • Discipline and Punish: The Modern Prison on Stage and Screen
  • Media, Performance, & Digital Culture in Contemporary France
  • Weimar Culture? Art, Film and Politics in Germany, 1918-33
  • Spectres of Fascism: Literature, Film and Visual Arts in Germany and Austria since 1945
  • Late Imperial China: the Great Wall and Beyond
  • Bodies, Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan
  • Core Themes in Animated Film and Visual Culture of Postwar Japan
  • Race, Class, and Gender in Japan and South Korea
  • Visual Culture in Modern Spain: Film, Painting and Photography
  • Socialism in China
  • Navigation of Emotions in Chinese Culture
  • Business Chinese
  • Dissertation in Drama/Film (Semester One)
  • Dissertation in Drama/Film (Semester Two)
  • Docufiction Filmmaking
  • Queer Bodies and the Cinema
  • Screening the Holocaust
  • Social Lives of Cinema
  • Extended Dissertation
  • Falstaff and Gandalf go to the Movies: Adapting Fantastic Texts to Screen
  • Global Television Industries
  • Contemporary Documentary Film Making
  • Screen Acting & Stardom
  • Science and Civilisation in East Asia
  • Culture, Gender and Resistance in Contemporary Japan and East Asia
  • Dissertation in Modern Languages and Cultures
  • The Supernatural in Latin American Literature and Film
  • Migration, Identity and Environment in Portuguese and Spanish Film