English and Film and TV Studies BA

The BA consists of both compulsory and optional modules, a typical selection can be found below. Modules can vary from year to year, but these offer a good idea of what we teach.

Level 1

Compulsory

Learning London

Reading Resilience

Critical Perspectives on Film and Television

Optional

Television Genres

Film Practice and Theory

Film Style and History

Formations: British Screen Culture and Society from 1979 to the present

Level 2

Optional

Nineteenth-Century Novel

Shakespeare Text and Performance

The Women's Movement and 20th Century Writing

Post-Colonial Writing

Modernism

Romanticism and Revolution

Contemporary British Fiction

Genre Fiction

New Hollywood

Science Fictions

European Cinema

Television: Forms and Meanings

Screenwriting and Narrative Theory

British Cinema and British Identities

The Western

Theorizing Celebrity

Asian Cinema

Animation

Short Fiction

Understanding the Film and Television Industries

Level 3

Compulsory

Select 1 option

Option1:

EITHER

English Project

OR

FTV Special Project

OR

Film and Video Practical Dissertation

Option 2:

English Project

AND

FTV Special Project

Optional

In FTV, you can select from:

Psychogeography

Documentary

The Horror Film

Comedy

American Independent Cinema

Alternative Film and Video Practice

Analysis of Film and TV Work Experience

Hong Kong Cinema

In English, you can select from:

Psychogeography

Special Author

Postcolonial Perspectives

Victorian Literature and Culture

Jane Austen

Postmillennial Fictions

A Sinking Island? British Poetry’s Response to Modernism and Postmodernism

Post War and Late Twentieth Century Literature 1945 – 2001

The Creative Industries

The Long Novel

Violence