Film studies

You're inquisitive. A creator. A natural storyteller.

Your world revolves around film, media and pop culture. You follow all the film critics and the Oscars is the most important date in your diary. Cannes Film Festival is on your bucket list. You have endurance. You’ll stay as long as it takes. After all, film is an art form and the lens is your calling.

Learn about our teaching and assessment plans, in light of the pandemic, for the 2020/21 academic year on the department pages.

Our courses

We offer BA Film Studies as a single honours.

If joint honours are more your thing check out:

BA Film and Creative Writing

BA Film and Drama

BA Film Studies and Literature

BA Film Studies and Art History

BA History with Film Studies

BA American Studies with Film

Putting theory into practice

Whether your focus is critical or creative, you’re starting out in the field or looking for a career refresher, our courses are your ideal next step. We have the expertise and the facilities to make the most of your love of film in the UK’s fast-growing creative industries sector.

We offer MA Film Studies and MA Film and Literature, both of which are based in our Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies.

Learn about our teaching and assessment plans, in light of the pandemic, for the 2020/21 academic year on the department pages.

A unique interdisciplinary environment

We combine expertise in film history with theory and practice, but you'll have access to academics from throughout our Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies. We're experts in cinema from the Americas, Europe, and Asia, documentary and experimental films and filmmaking, feminist, psychoanalytic and Marxist theory and postcolonial studies. 

Supervision

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