BA Film Studies and English Literature
Entry requirements
A level: AAB including A in English Literature or English Language & Literature
About this course
BA in English Language and Literature and Film Studies and BA (Hons) Photography, examining film culture alongside literary history. Core topics include Research Methods. Students can choose from options such as The Art of Film, Reading Literature, and Creative Writing: Fiction.
Modules
- The Art of Film
- Introduction to Early Film Histories
- Reading Literature
- Introduction to World Cinema
- Mapping the Medieval
- Theory and Text
- Literature and History
- 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
- Creative Writing: Fiction
- Chaucer: Texts, Contexts, Conflicts
- Shakespeare
- Gender, Sexuality and the Body: Theories and Histories
- Writing, Identity and Nation
- Postcolonial World Literatures
- Creative Writing: Poetry
- Medieval Metamorphoses
- Renaissance Literature
- Old English: Writing the Unreadable Past
- Satire and Sentiment: British Literature, 1660–1820
- Modernism
- Romanticism (1776 - 1832)
- Victorian Literature
- 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
- Visual Culture in Modern Spain: Film, Painting and Photography
- Love American Style
- History of California
- Harlem and the State of Urban America
- Climate Change & Culture Wars
- American Hauntings
- 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
- Long Essay
- Creative Writing: Fiction
- Culture and Conflict: Neoliberalism and Cultural Production
- Creative Writing: Poetry
- Irish Fiction Since 1990
- Radical Turns: Culture and Politics in the 1930s
- Culture and Politics in the Contemporary Global Novel
- Eros: Love and Desire in Victorian Poetry
- The History of the Book in Early Modern England
- Apocalypse: Early Modern Imaginings
- Queer Forms: Objects and Animals in Eighteenth-Century Poetry
- Hypercontemporary Queer and Trans Fiction
- Haunting the Stage: The Supernatural in Early Modern Drama
- Things that Talk: Nonhuman Voices in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture
- Culture and Politics in the Contemporary British Novel
- British Fiction and Empire in the Twentieth Century
- Creative Writing: Creative Non-Fiction
- Romantic Venice
- Co-operation, Competition, and Happiness: Dangerous Ideas in the Nineteenth Century
- Crime and Contemporary Culture
- Vital Matters: Medieval Ecologies
- Humans and other Animals in Contemporary Literature
- Women’s Writing, Citizenship, and Political Radicalism
- Literary and Sexual Experimentalism Between the Wars
- Contemporary South Asian Literatures
- Literary Landscapes
- Imaginations of the Future: People, Earth and Power
- Interdisciplinary Literature and Theology: Empathy, Ethics, Liberation
- The Supernatural in Latin American Literature and Film
- Migration, Identity and Environment in Portuguese and Spanish Film