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BA Film Studies and English Language

University of Manchester

Institution
University of Manchester
Level
undergraduate
Subject
BA Film Studies and English Language
Duration
3 years
UCAS code
PQ22
Typical offer
A-level AAB

Entry requirements

A level: AAB including one essay based subject

About this course

BA in English Language and Linguistics and Film Studies and BA (Hons) Photography. Core topics include Research Methods. Students can access a curriculum covering film culture and the English language.

Modules

  • The Art of Film
  • Introduction to Early Film Histories
  • English Word and Sentence Structure
  • The Sounds of Language
  • History and Varieties of English
  • Introduction to World Cinema
  • Language, Mind and Brain
  • Study of Meaning
  • From Text to Linguistic Evidence
  • Screen, Culture and Society
  • 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
  • Core Themes in Animated Film and Visual Culture of Postwar Japan
  • Language, Mind and Brain
  • Study of Meaning
  • From Text to Linguistic Evidence
  • Phonology
  • Analysing Grammar
  • Societal Multilingualism
  • Quantitative Methods in Language Sciences
  • Semantics : The Composition of Meaning
  • Pragmatics: Meaning, Context, and Interaction
  • The Changing English Language
  • Variationist Sociolinguistics
  • Stylistics of English
  • Visual Culture in Modern Spain: Film, Painting and Photography
  • Spanish Linguistics
  • 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
  • Phonology
  • Analysing Grammar
  • Societal Multilingualism
  • Semantics : The Composition of Meaning
  • Pragmatics: Meaning, Context, and Interaction
  • The Changing English Language
  • Variationist Sociolinguistics
  • Stylistics of English
  • Dissertation
  • Topics in the Study of Meaning
  • Cognitive Linguistics
  • Language Contact
  • Topics in Child Language Development
  • Language Policy and Planning
  • Forensic Linguistics
  • Romance Linguistics
  • Quantitative Methods in Language Sciences
  • Spanish Linguistics
  • The Supernatural in Latin American Literature and Film
  • Migration, Identity and Environment in Portuguese and Spanish Film