Film Studies MA

The programme covers the history of cinema and a wide variety of world cinemas. It is designed to provide students with advanced knowledge of both the history of cinema and its contemporary developments, and with the skills, concepts, methods and theories required for the study of cinema and media at graduate level.

Students undertake modules to the value of 180 credits.

The programme consists of two core modules (30 credits and one non-credit bearing), three optional modules (90 credits), and a dissertation (60 credits).

• Moving Images: Technology, Forms, Receptions
• Reading and Research Films

• Ancient Rome on Film
• Film Exhibition
• Genre in Italian Cinema
• Hollywood Genres
• How to Make an 8-Minute Documentary
• New Argentine Cinema
• Nordic Cinema: Contextualising Dreyer, Bergman and Dogme
• Political Cinema
• Russian Cinema: Epochs and Genres
• Spanish Film
• The French New Wave
• The Idea of Documentary
• Theories and Practices of Film
• Global Cinemas
• Digital Media
• East and South Asian Cinemas

All MA students undertake an independent research project which culminates in a dissertation of 12,000 words.

The programme is delivered through a combination of lectures, seminars, tutorials, and film and video screenings. The core modules are assessed by essays and examinations, which together count for 20% of the final mark. Optional modules are assessed by essays (40%), and the dissertation makes up the final 40%.