Film Studies

BA Film Studies

This degree programme allows for individual choices of intellectual direction in a wide range of film and media forms. This is supported by a framework of fundamental training in the skills, methods and critical concepts associated with film studies. We do not require prior knowledge of studies in film, and we welcome applicants with varied interests.

Why Film Studies?

Film studies is not about film alone, but about the ways in which we experience cinema, concepts of society and technology and the way we view stories on the screen. The degree investigates visual representation in our global society and the place that film and other media have in communicating ideas, attitudes and cultural beliefs, both mainstream and alternative, across different countries and periods.

In this programme you learn to ‘read' film, visual images and the cinematic experience. You learn to analyse and present arguments with a critical awareness of the varied forms that texts and visual images can take. You also explore the important connections between different national institutions and identities and their representations in film and visual culture. In addition we stress the important roles played by economic, social and political institutions in framing the way films are made, distributed and viewed.