BA Film Studies with Year Abroad
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 with Year Abroad, a film studies degree centred on historical, theoretical and international perspectives on cinema. Core topics include Programming, Statistics, Research Methods, Ethics & Professional Practice, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. Students spend the third year studying at a partner university abroad in countries such as South Korea, Sweden, Ireland or the Czech Republic. The first year covers foundational concepts through 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 expands into historical and international contexts with modules including Early and Silent Cinema, 1895-1929 and Global Cinemas. Optional modules in the second year allow students to explore diverse topics such as AI Utopias and the Climate Crisis, Animation: Technology, Culture and Industry, and Corpus Linguistics: Working with Large-scale Text Data. The final year involves an extended independent project through the compulsory Film Dissertation. Further optional study in the final year includes American Cinema Since 1965, Environmental Cinema and Media, 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