BA Film Studies
Entry requirements
A level: ABB IB: Pass, with 32 points overall with 16 points at Higher Level
About this course
Bachelor of Arts in Film Studies, a film studies degree centred on the analysis of cinema as art, industry, and cultural artifact. Core topics include Programming, Statistics, Research Methods, Ethics & Professional Practice, and Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. Students can spend a semester or summer abroad at partner universities in locations such as South Korea, Sweden, Ireland, Hong Kong, and the Czech Republic, and complete a four-week summer school at Dongguk University in Seoul. During the first year, students establish foundational knowledge through compulsory modules including European Cinema, Film Theory, Media, Culture and Society, Introduction to Film 1: Form, Style and Analysis, and What is Cinema? Film, Art, Technology 2. The second year progresses with compulsory study in Early and Silent Cinema, 1895-1929 and Global Cinemas, alongside optional choices covering areas like British cinema, television studies, animation, and digital media. In the final year, students complete a compulsory Film Dissertation alongside optional modules examining American cinema, horror on film, and video games in context.
Modules
- European Cinema
- Film Theory, Media, Culture and Society
- Introduction to Film 1: Form, Style and Analysis
- What is Cinema? Film, Art, Technology 2
- Early and Silent Cinema, 1895-1929
- Global Cinemas
- AI Utopias and the Climate Crisis
- Animation: Technology, Culture and Industry
- Audiences: Theories, Methods, Contexts
- Contemporary British Cinema
- Corpus Linguistics: Working with Large-scale Text Data
- Dark Streets and Strange Detours: Film Noir in Context
- Data, Culture, and Justice
- Digital Futures of the Past: Power, Ethics, and Representation
- Digital Media and The World of Work
- Digital Media: Professional Practice
- Film, Realism and Reality: representing the world, from revolution to the everyday
- Ghosts on Screen
- Humanities and Professional Practice
- Queering the Digital
- Television Studies: Key Debates
- Women and Hollywood
- Film Dissertation
- American Cinema Since 1965
- Crime TV: Technologies of Detection
- Environmental Cinema and Media
- Fantasy Film and Fiction
- Framing the Past:Stardom, History and Heritage in the Cinema
- Horror on Film
- Music in Film and Television
- Popular Global Screen Cultures
- Video Games in Context