BA Drama and Film Studies
Entry requirements
A level: ABB including one essay based subject
About this course
BA in Drama, exploring theatre, performance, and screen media. Core topics include Programming, Research Methods, and Ethics & Professional Practice. Students complete theoretical and practical course units in filmmaking alongside theatre history, with opportunities to tailor studies as the course progresses.
Modules
- The Art of Film
- Introduction to Theatre and Performance Studies
- Theatre and Performance Histories
- Performance Practices 1
- Performance Practices 2
- Introduction to Early Film Histories
- Introduction to World Cinema
- Contemporary British Cinema
- Screen, Culture and Society
- Theatres of Modernity
- Black on Screen
- Post-Thatcher British Theatre: New Writing Since 1992
- Performing America
- God at the Movies
- Devising for Performance
- Introduction to Documentary Film Practice
- Playmaking
- Solo Performance A
- Solo Performance B
- Drama in Education
- Horror Film: Genre, Periods, Styles
- Social Acts: Applied Theatre and Socially Engaged Arts Practice
- Theatres of Spontaneity
- Introduction to Screenwriting
- Discipline and Punish: The Modern Prison on Stage and Screen
- Archiving Culture
- Contemporary British Cinema
- Screen, Culture and Society
- Black on Screen
- Post-Thatcher British Theatre: New Writing Since 1992
- Performing America
- God at the Movies
- Horror Film: Genre, Periods, Styles
- Social Acts: Applied Theatre and Socially Engaged Arts Practice
- Discipline and Punish: The Modern Prison on Stage and Screen
- Dissertation in Drama/Film (Semester One)
- Dissertation in Drama/Film (Semester Two)
- Docufiction Filmmaking
- Applied Theatre: Theatre in Prisons
- Writing For Performance
- Performance and Public Space
- Professional Practices: Dramaturgy, Curation and Creative Programming
- Queer Bodies and the Cinema
- Directing Theatre
- Screening the Holocaust
- Activist Performance
- Social Lives of Cinema
- Extended Dissertation
- Falstaff and Gandalf go to the Movies: Adapting Fantastic Texts to Screen
- Contemporary Theatre-Making
- Global Television Industries
- Contemporary Documentary Film Making
- Screen Acting & Stardom
- Theatre, performance and care: studying artful care and careful art