Film and Theatre : BA Hons : PW34
Bachelor's degree
In Lancaster
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Lancaster
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Duration
3 Years
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Start date
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Lancaster's degree in Film and Theatre, taught by the Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA) gives you the opportunity to study contemporary theatre performance alongside the history and theory of film.
Studying Theatre at Lancaster gives you the opportunity to learn about innovative twentieth and twenty first century theatre and performance through an exciting and varied mix of theoretical and practical approaches. You will gain critical and creative skills that open up possibilities for working in theatre, while making you attractive to a wide range of other employers.
You will begin your degree with core courses including an Introduction to Film Studies and an Introduction to Theatre Studies. In your second year you’ll move on to subjects such as Global Cinema, Performance Composition and our LICA interdisciplinary module Critical Reflections .You will then complete your degree by choosing a selection of Film and Theatre modules on offer such as film theory, Ideology and Politics in Cinema, Contemporary British Theatre and Applied Theatre Practice.
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About this course
Film at Lancaster is a stimulating and intellectually engaging course which provides a framework for the close analysis of individual films. You will study cinema history and the social significance of films and will develop a detailed understanding of the techniques of film production. You will also have the opportunity to produce short films in all three years of your study. You can choose from a range of specialist courses and will develop skills that can lead to postgraduate study and careers in the media, advertising and marketing.
A LICA combined degree gives graduates the confidence and capability to produce work for themselves. Our graduates have become professional theatre practitioners including performers, directors, writers, dramaturgs, producers and technicians while others have chosen to work as community artists, arts administrators and managers. Film graduates have gone into TV production roles, independent film production and jobs in advertising, marketing and media production.
The transferable skills gained through studying a LICA combined degree at Lancaster make our graduates extremely attractive to employers within different creative industries, including the media, broadcast and print journalism, public relations, personnel and the Civil Service.
Many of our graduates also go on to further study often becoming academics, lecturers and teachers or further vocational training in theatre or film production, including the prestigious New York Film Academy and London Film School.
Lancaster University is dedicated to ensuring you not only gain a highly reputable degree, but that you also graduate with relevant life and work based skills. We are unique in that every student is eligible to participate in The Lancaster Award which offers you the opportunity to complete key activities such as work experience, employability/career development, campus community and social development.
A Level ABB
Required Subjects Film, Media, Theatre, Drama, Dance or Performance are considered desirable but applications from those studying other subjects who can demonstrate experience and interest in practical theatre are welcomed
IELTS 6.5 overall with at least 5.5 in each component.
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Subjects
- Theatre Studies
- Theatre
- Composition
- Film Studies
- Film Theory
- Cinema
- Hollywood
- Theatre Techniques
- Documentary Cultures
- Documentary film
Course programme
Many of Lancaster's degree programmes are flexible, offering students the opportunity to cover a wide selection of subject areas to complement their main specialism. You will be able to study a range of modules, some examples of which are listed below.
Year 1Core
- Introduction to Film Studies
- Introduction to Theatre Studies
- The Arts and Culture in Modernity
Core
- Critical Reflections
- Hollywood and beyond: Global cinema
- Performance Composition
- Theatre Techniques
Optional
- British Theatre & The State of the Nation (1945-2000)
- Documentary Cultures
- Documentary Film Practice
- European New Wave Cinema
- Film and Comic Books
- Introduction to Sound
- Introduction to Television Drama
- LICA Work Placement
- Media & Performance
- Modern Dance
- Perception and the Arts
- Performing the Avant-Garde
- Postwar European Playwrights
- Theatre Practice
- Women Filmmakers: critical visions, critical revisions
- Writing for Performance
Core
- Advanced Theatre Practice
- Dissertation
Optional
- Apocalypse Then: New Hollywood Cinema
- Classic Hollywood: The Studio Era
- Contemporary Dance and the Visual Arts
- Contemporary European Postdramatic Theatre
- Contemporary Hong Kong Cinema
- Creative Enterprise
- Film Theory
- New Scenographies in Performance
- New Writing in Contemporary British Theatre
- Silent Cinema
- The Popular, the Political and the Avant-Garde
Lancaster University offers a range of programmes, some of which follow a structured study programme, and others which offer the chance for you to devise a more flexible programme. We divide academic study into two sections - Part 1 (Year 1) and Part 2 (Year 2, 3 and sometimes 4). For most programmes Part 1 requires you to study 120 credits spread over at least three modules which, depending upon your programme, will be drawn from one, two or three different academic subjects. A higher degree of specialisation then develops in subsequent years.
Information contained on the website with respect to modules is correct at the time of publication, but changes may be necessary, for example as a result of student feedback, Professional Statutory and Regulatory Bodies' (PSRB) requirements, staff changes, and new research.
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Film and Theatre : BA Hons : PW34