BA Film, TV and Digital Media
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, TV and Digital Media, a film studies degree centred on the critical analysis and historical contexts of screen media. Core topics include Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Ethics & Professional Practice, Programming, Research Methods, and Statistics. The curriculum incorporates practical independent research via a final-year dissertation alongside industry-focused media studies. The first year establishes foundational knowledge through compulsory modules such as Digital Media: Contexts and Histories, Digital Media: Culture and Identity, Film Theory, Media, Culture and Society, and Introduction to Film 1: Form, Style and Analysis. The second year examines professional environments and societal impacts via Digital Media and The World of Work, Digital Media: Professional Practice, and Television Studies: Key Debates. Students can further tailor their studies through optional modules covering diverse topics such as AI Utopias and the Climate Crisis, Animation: Technology, Culture and Industry, Audiences: Theories, Methods, Contexts, and Contemporary British Cinema. The final year centres on advanced study through compulsory modules including the Film, TV and Digital Media Dissertation and Video Games in Context. Optional choices in the final year allow further specialisation in areas like American Cinema Since 1965, Crime TV: Technologies of Detection, Environmental Cinema and Media, and Horror on Film.
Modules
- Digital Media: Contexts and Histories
- Digital Media: Culture and Identity
- Film Theory, Media, Culture and Society
- Introduction to Film 1: Form, Style and Analysis
- Digital Media and The World of Work
- Digital Media: Professional Practice
- Television Studies: Key Debates
- 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
- Early and Silent Cinema, 1895-1929
- Film, Realism and Reality: representing the world, from revolution to the everyday
- Ghosts on Screen
- Global Cinemas
- Humanities and Professional Practice
- Queering the Digital
- Women and Hollywood
- Film, TV and Digital Media Dissertation
- Video Games in Context
- 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
- Streaming, Social Media, and Stans: Music Culture in the Platform Era