English and Film Studies BA (Hons)

Bachelor's degree

In Brighton

£ 9,250 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Brighton

  • Duration

    3 Years

Combine your love of literature with your passion for film.
You develop a critical understanding of both literature and film as art forms. You study a wide range of literature and a broad variety of films from across the globe and take an in depth look into the history of cinema. You’ll have access to dedicated media laboratories, film and sound studios, and an in-house DVD library of over 5,000 films and TV programmes.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Brighton (East Sussex)
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Sussex House, BN1 9RH

Start date

On request

About this course

Recent Media and Film graduates have found jobs as:
junior creative, Ogilvy and Mather
account assistant, Freuds
junior project manager, Dentsu Aegis.

You should have a broad range of GCSEs 9-4 (A*-C), including good grades in relevant subjects.

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Subjects

  • Teaching
  • English
  • Film Studies
  • Art
  • Cinema
  • Writing
  • Film Analysis
  • European Cinema
  • Global Cinema
  • Film Theory
  • Short fiction
  • British Cinema
  • Screen Documentary

Course programme

Year 1 at sussex

Autumn teaching
  • European Cinema B
  • Film Analysis
  • Thinking Literature 1
Spring teaching
  • Global Cinema A
  • Thinking Literature 2
Year 2 at sussex

Autumn teaching
  • Film Theory
Options

Autumn teaching
  • For Love: Taste, Evaluation, and Aesthetics in Criticism and Culture
  • Inner Worlds: Literature, 800-1750
  • Modernism and Childhood
  • Other Worlds: Literature, 800-1750
  • Reading Post-Colonial Texts
  • Science and Literature
  • The Art of Short Fiction
  • The Languages of Racisms in Literature and Art
Spring teaching
  • British Cinema A
  • British Cinema B
  • Chinese Cinema B
  • Contemporary Literature and Culture
  • Debates in Screen Documentary A
  • Debates in Screen Documentary B
  • Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain
  • Modernisms
  • Primitivism at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
  • Romance
  • Sense and Sexuality: Women and Writing in the Eighteenth Century
  • Staging the Renaissance: Shakespeare
  • The Musical B
  • The Nineteenth-Century American Short Story
  • Transatlantic Rhetoric: Public Speech and Anglo-American Writing 1750-1900
  • Victorian Things
  • Writing Poetry
Study abroad or Placement

Study abroad (optional)

Apply to study abroad – you’ll develop an international perspective and gain an edge when it comes to your career.

Placement (optional)

A placement is a great way to network and gain practical skills. When you leave Sussex, you’ll benefit from having the experience employers are looking for

Year 3 at sussex

Options

Autumn teaching
  • Capital Culture: Money, Commerce and Writing
  • Experimental Writing
  • Film and Revolution (A)
  • Hollywood Industry and Imaginary
  • Islam, Literature and the 'West'
  • Queer Literatures
  • Sexualities and the Cinema
  • Special Author(s): Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid and the Postcolonial Caribbean
  • Special Author: Christopher Marlowe
  • Special Author: Edgar Allan Poe
  • Special Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Special Author: Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Special Author: Salman Rushdie
  • Special Author: Thomas Hardy
  • Special Author: Virginia Woolf
  • Special Author: Vladimir Nabokov
  • Special Author: William Blake
  • Spectacular Imaginings: Renaissance Drama and the Stage 1580-1640
  • Technologies of Capture: Photography and Nineteenth Century Literature
  • The Film Festival Circuit
  • The Literatures of Africa
  • The Uncanny
  • Utopias and Dystopias
  • Viewing Women
Spring teaching
  • Adaptation: Filming Fiction
  • Decolonising the Curriculum: Literature and Theory of the Global South
  • Eastern European Cinemas: myth and memory
  • Film Studies Dissertation
  • Hollywood Comedian Comedy
  • Research Dissertation (English)
  • School Placement Project
  • Teen Cinema: Coming of Age on Screen
  • The Cinematic City

Additional information

International students Fee :  £16,750 per year

English and Film Studies BA (Hons)

£ 9,250 VAT inc.