BA Italian and Film Studies
Entry requirements
A level: ABB (Foreign language preferred.) IB: 34 points (A total of 16 points in three higher level subjects, with no higher level score below 5. Foreign language preferred.)
About this course
BA in Italian and Film Studies, a School of European Languages, Culture and Society degree focusing on Italian language acquisition combined with the critical study of cinema and media. Core topics include Research Methods. The course includes a compulsory third-year period spent abroad. The first year builds foundational competencies through Manufacturing Consent: Media and the Making of the Modern World, Theories and Methods in Film and Media Studies, Film and Media History and Analysis, and First Year Italian Language. The second year advances linguistic proficiency and disciplinary study with Introduction to Film Genre, Topics in Popular Film and Media, Mediatising Dissent, and Second Year Italian Language, alongside optional modules such as French Film History and Dante and Petrarch. The third year consists of SELCS Year Abroad Term 1 and SELCS Year Abroad Term 2. The fourth year concludes the programme with Dissertation in Film and Media and Final Year Italian Language, alongside optional choices including Futurism in Italy, Low Countries Cinema, and Film and/as Philosophy.
Modules
- Manufacturing Consent: Media and the Making of the Modern World
- Theories and Methods in Film and Media Studies
- Film and Media History and Analysis
- First Year Italian Language
- Introduction to Italian Studies 1
- Introduction to Italian Studies 2
- Introduction to Film Genre
- Topics in Popular Film and Media
- Mediatising Dissent
- Directions in Contemporary Cinema
- Second Year Italian Language
- French Film History
- The New German Cinema
- Issues in Italian Syntax
- Italian Literature 1860-1925
- Writing Women in Renaissance Italy
- Dante and Petrarch
- Italians Abroad: A History of Italian Migration 1790-Today
- 20th Century Latin American Cinema: History, Politics, Aesthetics
- SELCS Year Abroad Term 1
- SELCS Year Abroad Term 2
- Dissertation in Film and Media
- Final Year Italian Language
- Low Countries Cinema
- The Cinema of Resistance: Second World War
- Manufacturing Consent: Media and the Making of the Modern World
- Film and/as Philosophy
- Bombay Cinema: Industry and History
- East Asian Cinema
- French Film Adaptations
- Weimar and Nazi Film
- Futurism in Italy
- Docudrama in Contemporary Italian Cinema