Film, Media and Cultural Studies : BA Hons : PL36
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
Different dates available
Lancaster’s degree in Film, Media and Cultural Studies, taught by the Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts and the Sociology department gives you the opportunity to study film within the broader areas of communications and entertainment media and culture.
The Media and Cultural Studies programme at Lancaster is similarly theoretical and analytical but also contains practical components and skills embedded within the core curriculum. This programme is concerned with the critical study of media and culture and offers you the opportunity to examine historical and contemporary issues and debates. We will cover such themes as media history, politics and power, subcultures and marginal cultures, the role played by media in contemporary activist movements, the relationship between media, gender, race, ability, disability and body image, and making, reforming and hacking the public sphere.
On this combined programme of study you will take the core modules from the Film Studies programme and the closely related Media and Cultural Studies programme. You can choose option modules from a wide range of subjects including Consumer Culture and Advertising, Silent Cinema, Information Society and Virtual Cultures, New Hollywood Cinema, Media in the Global Age, Hong Kong cinema, Viral Video Production, Film and Comic Books, Gender and Media, European New Wave cinema, Film Theory, and Visual Media and Culture.
In your final year, you will complete an independent research Dissertation, where staff will support you on a topic of your choice, and where you have the option to combine practical and written elements.
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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 or one other humanities subject considered desirable but not essential
IELTS 6.5 overall with at least 5.5 in each component.
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Subjects
- Sociology
- Cultural Studies
- Film Studies
- Film Theory
- Media
- Advertising
- Cinema
- Video Production
- Hollywood
- Production
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
- Transformations: From Mass Media to Social Media
Optional
- The Arts and Culture in Modernity
- The Sociological Imagination
Core
- Critical Cultural Theory
- Hollywood and beyond: Global cinema
- Skills for researching social and cultural life
Optional
- Bodies in Society
- Critical Reflections
- Digital Cultures
- Disasters: Why do things go wrong?
- Documentary Cultures
- Documentary Film Practice
- European New Wave Cinema
- Feminism and Social Change
- Film and Comic Books
- Friendship, Intimacy and Society
- Gender, Sexuality and Society
- Introduction to Sound
- LICA Work Placement
- Living with Capitalism: Class, Distribution and Recognition
- Living with Capitalism: Work and Profit
- Media & Performance
- Media and Visual Culture
- Media in a Global Age
- Modernity and its Discontents
- Nations and Migration
- Perception and the Arts
- Socio-Cultural Approaches to Advertising
- Sociology goes to Hollywood
- Viral Video Production
- Women Filmmakers: critical visions, critical revisions
Core
- Dissertation
Optional
- Apocalypse Then: New Hollywood Cinema
- Bodies in Society
- Classic Hollywood: The Studio Era
- Contemporary Hong Kong Cinema
- Creative Enterprise
- Digital Cultures
- Disasters: Why do things go wrong?
- Feminism and Social Change
- Film Theory
- Friendship, Intimacy and Society
- Gender, Sexuality and Society
- Independent Dissertation Project
- Living with Capitalism: Class, Distribution and Recognition
- Living with Capitalism: Work and Profit
- Media in a Global Age
- Modernity and its Discontents
- Nations and Migration
- Silent Cinema
- Social Media and Activism
- Socio-Cultural Approaches to Advertising
- Sociology of the Future
- Violence and Society
- Viral Video Production
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, Media and Cultural Studies : BA Hons : PL36