BA English and Film Studies
Royal Holloway, University of London
Entry requirements
A level: ABB-BBB (Required subjects: A Level B in an essay-based subject We require English Language and Mathematics GCSE at grade 4 (C)) IB: 6,5,5 at Higher level or 32 points overall. Including 5 in an essay-based subject at Higher Level
About this course
BA in English Language and Literature and Film Studies, exploring both literary and cinematic forms. Core topics include Research Methods, Historical Research, and Critical & Analytical Thinking. As a Joint Honours programme, the degree pairs a broad English literature pathway with Film Studies modules in screenwriting, film theory, and television histories. The English side spans medieval poetry through Victorian and modern literature, while Film Studies covers global cinema, Hollywood, and experimental media.
Modules
- Literature and Crisis
- Reorienting the Novel
- Introduction to Media Histories 1
- Introduction to Media Histories 2
- Screen Narrative: Theory and Practice
- Screen Adaptations: Turning Literature into Film
- Middle English Poetry
- Tolkien's Roots
- Medieval Dream and Vision
- Strange Fictions: Romance in the Middle Ages
- Renaissance Literature
- Intensive Shakespeare: Comedy, History, Tragedy
- Drama and Witchcraft
- Early Modern Bodies
- Literature after the Conquest: 1066-1340
- Victorian Literature
- Romanticisms
- Creative Writing: Structure and Style
- Literature of the Fin de Siècle, 1883-1903
- Contemporary Debates in Literary and Critical Theory
- Modernisms
- Screenwriting
- Film Theory: Hitchcock and Point of View
- Post-Classical Hollywood
- Television Histories
- Modern European Cinema
- Contemporary Chinese Cinemas
- Exotic Cinema: Encounters with Cultural Difference
- Modernism and Avant Garde Film
- Beyond Bollywood: Indian Cinema in a Transitional Frame
- Digital Aesthetics
- The Creative Industries
- Literature and the Digital
- Ideas in Contemporary Fiction
- On Murder
- Advanced Shakespeare: The Problem Plays
- Literature and Philosophy
- Brexit, Literature and Discipline of English
- James Joyce: Revolutions of the Word
- Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
- Reading Like a Victorian
- First World War Literature
- The Girl in the Book
- Children's Literature
- The Post-Colonial Novel
- The New York Schools: Poetry, Painting, Composition
- The 1930s British Fiction and the Road to War
- Special Author: Virginia Woolf
- Special Author: Chaucer
- Special Author: Charles Dickens
- Literature, the Digital and the Creative Industries
- Special Author: Herman Melville
- Reading the Waste Land
- Creative Writing Special Focus (Term 1)
- English Dissertation
- Contemporary British Cinema 1
- Television and Digital Cultures
- Film Aesthetics 1: Issues of Interpretation and Evaluation
- Psychoanalysis and Cinema
- Film, Television and the Holocaust
- Media Technologies
- See This Sound - Audiovisuology
- Cinephilia
- 360º Cinema
- Political Cinema: From Eisenstein to Youtube
- The Poetics of Contemporary Television
- Contemporary British Cinema 2
- Film Aesthetics 2
- Film Studies Dissertation
- Media Research Project