BA (Hons) Media, Film and Television Studies
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Bachelor's degree
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Wolverhampton
Join us at the University of Wolverhampton to study Media, Film and Television Studies and you will explore a wide range of media forms from classic cinema to social media. This will challenge and expand your understanding of the significance and role of cinema, television and digital media for society.
Educational Aims of the Course
On the course in Media, Film and Television Studies you will analyse films and other media texts, such as advertisements, and discuss how these reflect and shape our understanding of gender, ethnicity, sexuality and other aspects of identity and culture. The study of Media with Film and Television Studies will develop the analytical skills needed for students to gain a greater understanding of their own culture and the culture of others.
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The degree in Media, Film and Television Studies is taught by a dedicated staff team from a range of academic and media industry backgrounds. You will therefore encounter diverse perspectives and evaluations of the role of the media in contemporary cultures.
Investigating the visual style and aesthetics of media forms, you’ll examine how modern audiences engage with a variety of genres, texts and productions, as well as studying the relationship of film and media to society.
You’ll examine and analyse films and media texts in depth, learning to use appropriate language for academic writing on film, television and digital media. Our lecturers are friendly and approachable and are published experts in their individual fields, so you’ll benefit from both their passion and expertise.
You will develop a range of subject specific and essential transferable skills in research, analysis and referencing, useful in many walks of life once you have graduated. You will gain an insight into the culture of other nations through their use of film television and other forms of media, and an in-depth knowledge of how the film and media industries work.
We will teach you to communicate effectively in both spoken and written language, enabling you to enhance your own creative and critical judgement. Media, Film and Television Studies classes consist of lectures, often followed by a seminar and/or screening of a film or television programme and a discussion on the work, either in small groups or among the whole class. You will take six modules every year, three before and three after Christmas.
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In your second year you have the opportunity to engage in a work placement, and in your final year you can choose either to do a further work placement, or a written project, producing a piece of research for an external organisation. We currently provide local producers and directors with pre-production research, and after-hours film clubs in local schools and colleges
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Subjects
- Production
- Media
- Global
- Cinema
- Film and Television
Course programme
Module: 4FI003
Credits: 20
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
The module focuses on film and television form and visual style. It provides an introduction to the key elements of screen language; which is examined through sections on mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing and sound. The module provides the tools for textual analysis of film and television. In addition the module introduces academic skills in constructing bibliographies and in using databases for film and television studies on the internet.
Module: 4MZ009
Credits: 20
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
The aim of this module is to introduce students to the major concepts in the study of media, communication and culture. The module explores how concepts can be applied to enable and enhance understanding of media, communications and culture in a global, digital age.
Module: 4MZ001
Credits: 20
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
The aim of this module is to introduce students to the ways in which media, culture and society interact. The module will investigate the context of media production and consumption, as well as identifying the ways in which media texts construct meaning.
Module: 4FI006
Credits: 20
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
This module aims to introduce you to a variety of factual genres encompassing national and trans-national perspectives. As hybridity is seen now as an essential characteristic of factuality, this module analyses the boundaries between fact and fiction in various popular factual formats and examines a variety of critical approaches and perspectives by scholars and practitioners of film and media in relation to the production of documentary and reality TV.
Module: 4FI001
Credits: 20
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
This module will introduce students to the devices and concepts of narrative structure in film, and provide models with which to analyse narrative and its various functional elements. We will consider the particular aspects of film narrative, and how these have been drawn from and, in turn, influenced other narrative forms. This will include addressing the processes through which written and graphic text, and dramatic performance, become transferred and adapted into film narrative. These issues will be explored further through a group assessment exercise in which a scene from a short written narrative will be adapted into a scene from a screenplay.
Module: 4FI004
Credits: 20
Period: 1
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
This module introduces you to a number of theoretical approaches to the academic study of film and television. By studying theories such as authorship, audiences, genres, psychoanalysis and postmodernism you will become acquainted with key concepts that will structure your ongoing studies.
Module: 5FI008
Credits: 20
Period: 2
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
This module aims to explore and analyse what is meant by & lsquo;representation& rsquo;. It engages with themes and debates concerning the conventional techniques, the effects, and the politics of representation and cinema/television, and uses these tools to analyse the filmic representations of social constructs such as gender, & lsquo;race& rsquo;, class and sexual identity.
Module: 5FI011
Credits: 20
Period: 2
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
This module takes a particular case study (or case studies) of a chosen global cinema. It begins with an appraisal of authorship, stardom, narrative structure and contemporary trends within the global cinema example and also considers specific regional production in terms of realism, stylistic development, and censorship. The module aims to analyse the various forms and styles of the particular global cinema example within the appropriate historical, ideological, economic and cultural contexts. It also aims to evaluate and synthesise critical debate surrounding films from the particular case study.
Module: 5MZ004
Credits: 20
Period: 2
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
The module aims to introduce students to the role ethical considerations play in the context of the professional media or public relations environments. Using a case study approach, the module will seek to examine the nature of ethical dilemmas encountered in a professional environment, and will explore the problems that arise in attempting to resolve such dilemmas. Students will be introduced to a range of ethical positions and will be encouraged, through the use of case studies and also through the use of the e-forum, to consider the resources such theories might make available to them when seeking to deal with ethical issues in a professional environment.
Module: 5MZ027
Credits: 20
Period: 2
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
‘Lifestyle’ has become a key concept in media studies. Not only is it a key marker of identity (we may, for example, ‘choose’ a lifestyle to suit our personality) but lifestyles and lifestyle-related issues now comprise a substantial part of media content – from lifestyle magazines through to ‘makeover’ and ‘reality’ TV shows covering such diverse topics as health, fashion, food, relationships, hygiene, antiques, home ownership, gardening, and travel. This module also considers the impact of ‘celebrity’ on perceptions of lifestyle, as celebrity lives and lifestyles are increasingly held up as models for our own lives.
Module: 5FI003
Credits: 20
Period: 2
Type: Core
Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus
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This module addresses the revolutionary drive in filmmaking in the 1960s and 1970s in a variety of national cinemas, including the French Nouvelle Vague, the British New Wave and some non-Western cinemas. These films challenged the social status quo by drawing attention to the reality of life for working class people. The style of these films was innovative, based on location shooting with a documentary feel. This module will put the films into their historical context, while at the same time commenting on the originality of their themes and the pioneering techniques used in making them...
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BA (Hons) Media, Film and Television Studies
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South & City College Birmingham
GCSE West Midlands / Classroom-basedPrice on request -
Canterbury College
Course OnlinePrice on request -
University of the Highlands and Islands
Master Onlinehigher than £ 9000 -
City College Norwich
Course OnlinePrice on request -
London College of Communication - Univ. of the Arts London
Master OnlinePrice on request -
Limperts Academy of Design
Course Distance LearningPrice on request -
South Worcestershire College
HND OnlinePrice on request
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