BA Art and Film and Theatre WW41

Bachelor's degree

In Reading

£ 9,250 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Reading

Full Time: 4 Years
Bring together your individual practice with studies in film and theatre. Let your knowledge and skills in all three disciplines feed into one another to produce highly personal and individual work.
This joint Art degree enables you to develop a critical understanding of contemporary art, film and modern theatre. You will have the opportunity to complement your art practice with elements of practical work in film and theatre.
You will join a lively community at one of the top ten Art departments in the UK and explore a vast range of media and experiment with emerging art forms. Alongside your practical art you will study "Contemporary Art Theory" and the "History of Art". You will receive a dedicated studio space, accessible 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, and a studio tutor to help develop your individual and professional practice.
Your teaching staff are all artists, curators and researchers of international standing and will encourage regular exhibitions and open debate.Trips to museums and art galleries will help prompt thoughts on how art is displayed and received. You will gain professional experience by taking part in your own exhibitions, public art commissions and events.
In film and theatre you can choose from a range of modules covering world cinema, avant-garde and experimental film-making, or the cinema of classical and contemporary Hollywood, such as musicals, melodrama, action cinema and the films of Alfred Hitchcock; study theatre from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, covering the work of playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, Caryl Churchill and Sarah Kane; together with a range of practices from verbatim to immersive, from site specific work to digital technology in performance; and investigate television from soap opera to sitcom to sci-fi.
Practical work complements your critical and theoretical study allowing you to apply what you learn through practice – drawing on the market-leading facilities of the...

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Location

Start date

Reading (Berkshire)
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Whiteknights, RG6 6AH

Start date

On request

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Subjects

  • Art
  • Theatre
  • Cinema
  • International
  • Media

Course programme

  • Year 1
  • Year 2
  • Year 3
  • Year 4
Year 1 Core modules include:
  • Art Studio
  • Reading Objects, Writing Images
  • Introduction to Film
  • Introduction to Theatre
Optional modules include:
  • Introduction to Television
  • Making Meaning
  • Modernisms and Mythologies
  • What is the Contemporary?
  • Medium, Media and Materials

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 2 Core modules include:
  • Art Studio including Career Management Skills
Optional modules include:
  • Film Authorship
  • Performance and Nation
  • Film Genre
  • Performance and Identity
  • Alternative Forms in Film
  • Alternative Forms in Theatre
  • Popular Television Genres
  • Work based learning
  • Research production
  • Critical Collaborative Methods
  • Aesthetic and Anti Aesthetic
  • Visual Thinking and Material Writing
  • International Study Visit

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 3 Core modules include:
  • Art Studio
Optional modules include:
  • Contemporary Performance A
  • Contemporary Performance B
  • Representing Conflict on Stage and Screen A
  • Representing Conflict on Stage and Screen B
  • Storytelling in Film A
  • Storytelling in Film B
  • Television and Contemporary Culture A
  • Television and Contemporary Culture B
  • The Director and the Theatre A
  • The Director and the Theatre B
  • World Cinema A
  • World Cinema B
  • Image Action Text
  • Affect, Aesthetics and the Event
  • Utopias and Other Worlds
  • Landscape and Memory
  • Independent Study

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 4 Core modules include:
  • Art Studio
  • Dissertation (Film and Theatre)

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

BA Art and Film and Theatre WW41

£ 9,250 + VAT