BA History and Film Studies
Entry requirements
A level: ABB
About this course
BA (Hons) in History and Film Studies, examining how film shapes our understanding of the past. Core topics include Research Methods and Fieldwork. Modules cover both film studies and historical topics ranging from Anglo-Saxon England to modern times. The course is based in Norwich, with access to local historical sites and the East Anglian Film Archive.
Modules
- DOING FILM HISTORY
- INTRODUCTION TO MODERN HISTORY
- ANALYSING FILM
- WORLD CINEMAS
- DOING HISTORY
- VISUAL(ISING) HISTORY
- PROPAGANDA
- KEY CONCEPTS IN FILM THEORY
- THEORISING TELEVISION: FROM BROADCASTING TO STREAMING
- ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND, C. 400-1066
- FRANCE FROM THE ENLIGHTENMENT TO THE BELLE ÉPOQUE
- SLAVERY IN THE USA, 1619-1865
- INVENTION AND DISCOVERY IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE
- IDEAS IN CONTEXT: A SHORT HISTORY OF EUROPEAN SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT
- LOVE, DESIRE AND SEXUALITY IN HISTORY
- BETWEEN EAST AND WEST: INTERNATIONAL HISTORY SINCE 1890
- THE FIRST BRITISH EMPIRE
- FROM STALIN TO PUTIN: THE LONG SHADOW OF THE WAR
- HUNDRED YEARS' WAR
- STUDYING AUDIENCES
- FILM GENRES: THEORY AND PRACTICE
- HERITAGE AND PUBLIC HISTORY
- THE ORIGINS OF THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE 4000BC TO 1066AD
- LIFE AND ART IN THE JEWISH DIASPORA
- NAPOLEON TO STALIN (AND BEYOND): THE STRUGGLE FOR MASTERY IN EUROPE
- THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE 1066 TO 1600
- THE LATE ANTIQUE AND EARLY MEDIEVAL WORLD 300-1000
- TEENAGE KICKS: DIGITAL MEDIA, YOUTH AND SUBCULTURE
- THE COLD WAR: A NEW HISTORY
- ARTS AND HUMANITIES PLACEMENT MODULE
- FROM STUDIOS TO THE DIGITAL ERA: HOLLYWOOD AS GLOBAL INDUSTRY
- JAPAN IN MODERN TIMES
- DISEASES, EPIDEMICS AND HISTORY
- TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITAIN, 1914 TO THE PRESENT
- DIGITAL MEDIA: CONCEPTS, TECHNOLOGIES & CULTURES
- ASIAN FILM AND DIGITAL CULTURE
- LATIN AMERICAN CINEMA
- STUART ENGLAND
- FILM AND VIDEO PRODUCTION
- RESEARCHING MEDIA INDUSTRIES AND CREATIVE SECTORS IN CONTEXT
- CONTESTING THE PAST: REPRESENTATION AND MEMORY
- CAMPS IN HISTORY AND MEMORY: THE 20TH CENTURY IN DETENTIONS, MIGRATIONS, AND EXPLOITATION
- CREATIVE WORK IN THE MEDIA INDUSTRIES
- SCRIPTWRITING: ADAPTATION
- THE FIRST WORLD WAR: A NEW HISTORY
- THE WAY IT WASN'T: HISTORICAL FICTION AND HISTORY
- IRELAND: A LONG HISTORY OF THE TROUBLES
- FIELDWORK IN LANDSCAPE HISTORY
- BLACK INTERNATIONALISM
- THE ENLIGHTENMENT
- MEDIA, CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
- SOUND ON SCREEN
- THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, 1789-1804
- ROBIN HOOD: THE MEDIEVAL OUTLAW IN HISTORY AND LEGEND
- US INTERVENTIONISM, THE CIA AND COVERT ACTION
- WRITING TELEVISION DRAMA
- CELEBRITY: FROM STARS TO INFLUENCERS
- SCIENCE FICTION
- TEACHING HISTORY
- CONTEMPORARY SCREEN DISTRIBUTION AND EXHIBITION
- IN THE MINDS OF SAMURAI, RULERS, REBELS, AND POETS: JAPAN, 1830-1960
- RUSSIA IN REVOLUTION 1905 - 1921
- DISSERTATION IN MEDIA, LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION STUDIES
- STORYTELLING, MEDIA AND CRISIS