MA Film and Literature

University of Essex

Postgraduate

In Colchester

£ 6,125 + VAT

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Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Colchester

  • Duration

    1 Year

About the course
Explore the relationship between literature and film in an exceptionally broad array of contemporary and historical contexts, and from a variety of different perspectives

You discover cutting-edge approaches to cinematic and literary aesthetics, adaptation, and relationships between different media, reception contexts, ethics, and interfaces between theory and practice


On our course you gain a deep understanding of the theoretical and practical interactions between literature and film, choosing specific areas of literary and cinema studies to complement your preparation for a creative practice or theoretical dissertation project of your choice

You will forge and develop connections between audio-visual and textual media

Focusing a variety of cultural productions and diverse forms of enlightenment, and entertainment, you will encounter parallel and sometimes more densely intertwined media histories, discovering the complex ways in which media anticipate, interfere with, and draw on one other


Through weekly seminars, screenings and discussions of key cinematic and literary texts, you consider different ways that texts create their meanings

You study topics including:
Areas such as modernism, poetic practice, American prose, Caribbean literature, and African American literature
Documentary and fiction film production including screenwriting, pre-production, camera, lighting, sound, storyboarding and editing
Landmark directors and movements such as Expressionism and the avant-garde
Film theory including feminism, psychoanalysis, queer theory, haptic cinema
Adaptation and comparative media
You also benefit from a series of masterclasses conducted by invited industry professionals which focus on the craft of filmmaking: developing your technical understanding of cinematography, directing and editing/postproduction

Facilities

Location

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Colchester (Essex)
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Wivenhoe Park, CO4 3SQ

Start date

On request

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Subjects

  • Media
  • Production
  • Cinema
  • American Literature
  • Project
  • Prose
  • Film Production
  • Teaching
  • Drama
  • Theatre
  • University
  • Writing

Course programme

Example structure
Postgraduate study is the chance to take your education to the next level. The combination of compulsory and optional modules means our courses help you develop extensive knowledge in your chosen discipline, whilst providing plenty of freedom to pursue your own interests. Our research-led teaching is continually evolving to address the latest challenges and breakthroughs in the field, therefore to ensure your course is as relevant and up-to-date as possible your core module structure may be subject to change.
For many of our courses you’ll have a wide range of optional modules to choose from – those listed in this example structure are, in many instances, just a selection of those available. Our Programme Specification gives more detail about the structure available to our current postgraduate students, including details of all optional modules.
Year 1
Dissertation
Research Methods in Literary and Cultural Analysis
Critical Moments in the Theory and History of Film
The New Nature Writing (optional)
Writing the Novel (optional)
Memory Maps: Practices in Psychogeography (optional)
Dramatic Structure (optional)
Adaptation (optional)
Documentary and the Avant-garde: Film, Video, Digital (optional)
Film and Video Production Workshop (optional)
US Nationalism and Regionalism (optional)
African American Literature (optional)
Writing Magic (optional)
"There is a Continent Outside My Window" : United States and Caribbean Literatures in Dialogue (optional)
Literature and the Environmental Imagination: 19th to 21st Century Poetry and Prose (optional)
Teaching
Five modules are followed over the autumn and spring terms
Weekly film screenings and discussions of key cinematic and literary texts
Practical film production workshops
Seminars may include introductions by your tutor, presentations by you, and discussion based on a programme of reading
Visiting scholars are invited to speak about their research
Assessment
Four essays of 4,000-5,000 words, usually combining a creative piece and critical commentary
There is normally considerable freedom for you to choose the topics of your essays
A reflective piece on research methods
Dissertation
You produce a creative practice or theoretical dissertation project
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Additional information

These also introduce you to potential employment routes and industry career pathways, from setting up your own production company, to identifying and tapping into distribution networks and preparing and marketing your completed films We are ranked Top 20 in the UK (Times Good University Guide 2015), and three-quarters of our research is rated ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (REF 2014) This course is also available on a part-time basis Our expert staff Our intensive modules are taught in small groups by expert academic film specialists and professional filmmakers The Centre for Film and Screen Media at Essex is part of a vital departmental unit that offers talented students the support and confidence to respond both critically and artistically to the study of film This distinctive environment is possible because we are a community of award-winning film-makers, scholars, and media specialists; our staff over the years have included Oscar winners and BAFTA winners Our academic staff specialise in a wide range of production and critical areas including producing, screenwriting, documentary, , film theory, Soviet cinema, US cinema, films of Asia and Pacific regions, modernism and the avant-garde, adaptation, and silent cinema Our Department has a distinguished history of combining critical and creative work, and we have long been home to poets, novelists, translators, dramatists and actors, alongside literary critics, drama scholars, filmmakers and film theorists Specialist facilities For your film production modules, you have priority use of industry-standard editing facilities, two state-of-the-art studios, and a range of cameras and other filmmaking equipment You also gain experience using professional film production software including Avid and Final Cut; everything you will need to produce films to an expert standard You also have access to our other departmental facilities: Show off your work on our Vimeo...

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MA Film and Literature

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