Film Studies BA (Hons)
Bachelor's degree
In Bangor
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Bangor (Wales)
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Duration
3 Years
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Start date
September
Our Film Studies degree combines critical and creative work and practice, depending on your interests and career plans. At Bangor, we are committed to teaching in small groups and to the majority of our modules being delivered through weekly workshops and seminars.
Lecturers who teach on the Film Studies degree have a range of interests including American Cinema, British and European film, Japanese and other world cinemas, gender, visual culture, film analysis, the body and film, film and history, digital technology and film, scriptwriting and screenwriting, film making, media and film in Wales, acting and performing, language and film, blogging and podcasting, computer games and film, film stars and film on television. Our Film Studies lecturers have recently written books and articles on topics such as Cult Film, American Culture and Film, Cinema and Medicine, Jewish Film, Surrealist Film, Cinema and Landscape, Australian Film, and the new technologies of film viewing.
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About this course
The course aims to enable understudies to: Be able to read and analyse a moving image text in a structured and informed way
Have access to a technical and critical vocabulary relevant to the discussion of audio visual imagery
Understand the workings of shot structure and scene composition
Be able to analyse short film clips, paying attention to their formal techniques
Be able to assimilate visual information and use that information to construct a written argument
Creative Studies and Media courses have seen graduates involved in both academe and in industry, including work in:
Creative Writing, Professional Writing and Publishing;
Performance and the Theatre, both on and behind the stage;
Print and/or Broadcast Journalism;
Actors, presenters and in television programme production;
Advertising and the Marketing industries;
Radio, as presenters, as well as in programme production;
Digital, Web and New Media production;
Multi media industries.
We aim to interview all candidates.
300 260 points
We consider mature students with non standard qualifications.
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Subjects
- IT
- Film Studies
- Film Theory
- Cinema
- Media
- Digital Communication
- Creative Practice
- Creating Narratives
- Media Culture
- Moving Image
- Media Practice
- Development of Moving Image
- Film Culture
- America on Film
- Cultural Economy of the Media
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Film Studies BA (Hons)