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BA Film Studies and History of Art

University of Manchester

Institution
University of Manchester
Level
undergraduate
Subject
Drama
Duration
3 years
UCAS code
PV36
Typical offer
A-level AAB

Entry requirements

A level: AAB including one essay based subject

About this course

BA in History of Art and Film Studies and BA (Hons) Photography, combining the history of art and film studies with photographic practice. Core topics include Research Methods. Students take part in a European Art History Fieldtrip as part of the curriculum.

Modules

  • The Art of Film
  • Introduction to Early Film Histories
  • Ice Age to Baroque: Artworks in History
  • Rococo to Now: Artworks in History
  • Introduction to World Cinema
  • Art Spaces
  • Art History Tutorial 1
  • Art History Tutorial 2
  • Screen, Culture and Society
  • Art in Theory
  • European Art History Fieldtrip
  • 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
  • British Art and The Environment, 1800–1900
  • Art Markets
  • The Art of Late Medieval Italy: Commerce, Religion, Travel
  • Renaissance and Baroque Architecture 1450-1750
  • Surrealism, Gender, Sexuality
  • Digital Ways of Seeing: Theory and Practice
  • Core Themes in Animated Film and Visual Culture of Postwar Japan
  • Visual Culture in Modern Spain: Film, Painting and Photography
  • 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
  • History of Art Dissertation
  • Victorian Bodies: Art, Science, and Modernity 1848 - 1901
  • Art and Ecology: Bodies, Environments and Technology
  • Digital Art
  • Architecture of Devotion: Art, Architecture and Material Culture in Early Modern Italy and Beyond
  • Art After Modernism: Approaching Contemporary Art
  • Picasso
  • The Art of European Medieval Books
  • The Supernatural in Latin American Literature and Film
  • Migration, Identity and Environment in Portuguese and Spanish Film