Comparative literature and film studies ba (hons)

Structure

You can complete your Comparative Literature and Film Studies degree in three or four years. If you choose to study abroad for a year, this will take place in Year 3, and the Year 3 modules will instead be studied in Year 4.

• Year 1
• Year 2
• Year 3

Year 1

• Approaches and Analysis
• Concepts and History
• Critical Thinking and Writing for Comparative Literature
• Introduction to Comparison
• Introduction to Literature: Texts and Contexts
• The Scene of Learning
• Understanding Culture: An Introduction to Cultural Theory

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 2 Compulsory

• The Scene of Reading
• What is Cinema? Critical Approaches

• Colonial Literatures, Post-Colonial Perspectives
• Experiments in contemporary Women’s Writing
• Fairy Tales in the Modern World
• Film Curation
• Film, Literature and Adaption
• Homeward Bound: From the Odyssey to O Brother Where Art Thou?
• Introduction to British Cinema
• Literature and Philosophy
• Madness, Past and Present
• Memories of the Holocaust and Colonialism in French Cinema
• Migration through Photography
• Photography and Narrative
• Presentations of London in Modern European Literature and Film
• Scriptwriting: Adaptation and Original Script
• The French New Wave
• Why Belgium? Identities, Cultures, Narratives

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 3 Compulsory

• The Scene of Writing

• British Cinema from the 1960s New Wave to the Arrival of Channel 4
• Comparative Literature Research Project
• Comparative Modernisms: the Case of China and India
• Constellations: Online Anthology Group Project
• Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
• Eco-cinemas: Nature, Animals and the Moving Image
• Faust in Legend, Literature and the Arts
• Film and Ethics
• Film Archaeology
• Film Philosophy
• First World War Literatures
• Grand Tours: 19th century Adventure Stories for Young Readers and their 20th century Afterlives
• Lost in Translation?
• New Independent Indian Cinema
• On the Subject of Sex II: Queen to Queer
• Photography: The Self and its Image
• Reading German Film III: Contemporary German Cinema
• The East in the West

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Study options

Apply for this degree with any of the following options. Take care to use the correct UCAS code - it may not be possible to change your selection later.

Year abroad

Go global and study abroad as part of your degree – apply for our Comparative Literature and Film Studies BA with a Year Abroad. Queen Mary has links with universities in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia (partnerships vary for each degree programme).

Find out more about study abroad opportunities at Queen Mary and what the progression requirements are.