Film studies ba (hons)

Structure

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

• Year 1
• Year 2
• Year 3

Year 1

• Approaches and Analysis
• Concepts and History
• Production Skills
• Scriptwriting: Creativity and Technique

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 2 Compulsory

• Research Methods (Film)
• The Visual Essay
• What is Cinema? Critical Approaches

• Directing Fiction
• Film Curation
• Film, Literature and Adaption
• Introduction to British Cinema
• Memories of the Holocaust and Colonialism in French Cinema
• Scriptwriting: Adaptation and Original Script
• The French New Wave

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 3 Compulsory

• Film Research Project

• British Cinema from the 1960s New wave to the Arrival of Channel 4
• Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
• Creative Production
• Eco-Cinemas: Nature, Animals and the Moving Image
• Film and Ethics
• Film Archaeology
• Film Philosophy
• Forms of Film Practice
• New Independent Indian Cinema

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 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.