Global Cinemas and Screen Arts (BA): 3-year, full-time

Bachelor's degree

In London

£ 9,250 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    London

Programme overview This unique programme is jointly offered by 2 internationally renowned University of London colleges - Birkbeck and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) - and draws on their combined expertise in Western and non-Western cinemas and cultures. The programme gives you the opportunity to study global cinemas and cultures with leading academics and media practitioners at the cultural and academic heart of London. It offers a comprehensive and in-depth knowledge of a range of historical and contemporary global cinematic traditions, while allowing you to develop your critical reasoning skills and an array of linguistic and creative film-making skills. You will explore European and American cinema alongside non-Western cinematic traditions from Asia, Africa, the Middle East and South and Latin America. You will develop your understanding of the distinctive features of Western and non-Western cinemas, as well as the relationships and interactions between them, and you will study the complex cultural backgrounds that inform and shape global cinemas and screen arts, including history, literature and language. Another distinctive feature of this course is the opportunity to undertake an option module in literature or any Western or non-Western language, or to take a practical course in screenwriting. Birkbeck and SOAS are internationally renowned institutions for the teaching of film and media studies and world languages and cultures. Cinema and media studies at Birkbeck and SOAS are taught by some of the leading film and screen studies experts, who offer specialist modules in European and Latin American and Iberian languages and cultures as well as African, Asian and Middle Eastern regions. Birkbeck also features a state-of-the-art cinema, regularly showcasing current film practice and offering students an ideal learning and research environment. This...

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Malet Street, WC1E 7HX

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OctoberEnrolment now closed

About this course

Entry requirements We welcome applicants without traditional entry qualifications as we base decisions on our own assessment of qualifications, knowledge and previous work experience. We may waive formal entry requirements based on judgement of academic potential. UCAS tariff points 104 The UCAS tariff system has changed for courses starting in September 2017 and is now calculated using a new number system. This means applicants applying for courses from October...

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Subjects

  • Latin
  • Translation
  • Politics
  • Screenwriting
  • Media Studies
  • Art
  • Cinema
  • Global
  • Full Time
  • Media

Course programme

Course structure

You will undertake core courses in film with specific references to Europe, North and South America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. This will allow you to progress to a range of stimulating options focused on specific regional and national cinemas and cultural contexts.

A special feature of the course is the opportunity to take, each year, an option module, worth 30 credits, in any Western or non-Western language, literature or a practical course in screenwriting.

Year 1: you undertake 2 compulsory modules - Introduction to Cinema and Doing Film, Media and Culture - at Birkbeck (30 credits each) and 2 option modules (30 credits each) in film, or 1 option module in film and the other in a language, in literature, or in screenwriting.

Year 2: you study 2 compulsory modules (15 credits each) - Global Screen Industries and Orientalism on Screen - at SOAS (both of which are taught in the evening at SOAS, in order to accommodate the needs of our students) and either choose 3 option modules in film (30 credits each) or 2 option modules in film and 1 other in a language, in literature, or in screenwriting.

Year 3: in your final year, you research and write a dissertation (30 credits) at SOAS and either choose 3 option modules in film (30 credits each) or 2 option modules in film and 1 other in a language, in literature, or in screenwriting.

Birkbeck offers modules for study at Levels 4, 5 and 6, while SOAS offers modules at Level 4 in languages only, and all other modules are at Level 5 and 6.

Compulsory modules
  • Global Screen Industries
  • Introduction to Cinema
  • Orientalism on Screen
Birkbeck film option modules
  • Approaches to Cinema History
  • Cinema Today
  • Contemporary European Cinema
  • Do Look Now: British Cinema in the 1970s
  • Documentary
  • Film and Politics
  • Film and Politics
  • Film and the Gothic Imagination
  • Film Noir: Cast a Long Shadow
  • Film, Narrative and Genre
  • French Cinema 1890-1940: Invention, Expansion, Crisis
  • French Cinema 1940-1980: identity, diversity, change
  • French Cinema: History, Practice, Analysis
  • Gender and Sexuality in Cinema
  • German Film: Nation and Identity
  • Post-War German Film
  • Post-War German Film
  • Principles of Digital Video and Editing
  • Studying the Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian and Native American Worlds
  • Survey of 20th Century Spanish Art and Film
  • Underground Film: The British Avant-Garde
  • Women's Cinema Revisited
Birkbeck literature option modules
  • Art and Empire in the Iberian World
  • Contemporary Latin American Literature and Art
  • French Political Culture: Traditions and Change
  • French Thought: from the Renaissance to Postmodernity
  • German Women's Writing
  • Iberian Political Cultures: Approaches to Modern Portugal and Spain
  • Literature and Society since 1945
  • Literature and Society since 1945
  • Literature and the City
  • Luso-Brazilian Cultures
  • Luso-Brazilian Literature and Society
  • Modes of Struggle in Modern French and Francophone Literature and Film
  • Myth, Folk and Fairytales
  • New Trends in French Literary Culture
  • Power and Control in Spanish Golden Age Art
  • Republic and Nation: French Political Life since 1958
  • Scenes of Portuguese History: Cultural approaches to modern politics
  • Space, Culture and Society in Brazil
  • Studying the Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian and Native American Worlds
  • The Latin American Novel
  • The Twentieth Century: Key Themes in Comparative European History (Level 5)
  • The Twentieth Century: Key themes in comparative European history (Level 6)
  • The Urban Experience in Brazil
Birkbeck languages option modules
  • French 1
  • French 2
  • French 3
  • French 4
  • French 5
  • German 1
  • German 2
  • German 3
  • German 4
  • German 5
  • Portuguese 1
  • Portuguese 2
  • Portuguese 3
  • Portuguese 4
  • Portuguese 5
  • Spanish 1
  • Spanish 2
  • Spanish 3
  • Spanish 4
  • Spanish 5
Birkbeck screenwriting option modules
  • Aspects of Screenwriting: Adaptation
  • Aspects of Screenwriting: Comedy
  • Principles of Screenwriting
  • Screenwriting
  • Screenwriting - The Thirty-Minute Script
  • Screenwriting: The 50 Minute Script

SOAS indicative film option modules

  • 1990s South Korean Cinema: A Critical Survey
  • Cinema and Society in South Asia: History and Social Context
  • Cinema and Society in South Asia: Key Issues
  • Cinemas of the Middle East and North Africa
  • Filmmaking and Curatorial Practices in the Age of Festivalisation
  • Japanese Cinema: A Critical Survey
  • Japanese Post-War Film Genres and the Avant-Garde
  • Indonesia on Screen
  • Modern Chinese Film and Theatre
  • Modern Film from Taiwan and the Chinese Diaspora
  • Queer Cinema in Asia
  • South African Film and Visual Culture, 1994-2014
  • South African Film and Visual Culture: Before and During Apartheid
  • Thailand on Screen (Post '97).
SOAS indicative literature option modules
  • African Languages and Literatures
  • African Philosophy
  • Afrophone Philosophies
  • Contemporary African Literature
  • History in African and Caribbean Literature
  • Literary Traditions and Culture of Korea
  • Nations and Nationalism in Middle Eastern Fiction
  • South Asian Literature in English
  • Survey of Modern Japanese Literature in Translation
  • Survey of Pre-Modern Japanese Literature in Translation
  • Trajectories of Modernity in Twentieth-Century Korean Literature
  • War, Revolution and Independence in South East Asian Literature in Translation.
SOAS indicative languages option modules
  • Amharic 1 and Amharic 2
  • Arabic 1 and Arabic 2
  • Bengali 1 and Bengali 2
  • Burmese 1 and Burmese 2
  • Chinese 1 and Chinese 2
  • Hausa 1, Hausa 2 (a), Hausa 2(b) and Hausa 3
  • Hindi 1 and Hindi 2
  • Indonesian 1 and Indonesian 2
  • Japanese Basic 1 and Japanese Basic 2 and Intermediate Japanese 1 and Intermediate Japanese 2
  • Korean Basic 1 and Korean Basic 2
  • Nepali 1 and Nepali 2
  • Sanskrit 1 and Sanskrit 2
  • Somali 1 and Somali 2
  • Swahili 1 and Swahili 2a and Swahili 2b
  • Thai 1 and Thai 2
  • Urdu 1 and Urdu 2
  • Vietnamese 1 and Vietnamese 2
  • Yoruba 1 and Yoruba 2

Additional information

Teaching and assessment Teaching Lectures, seminars and study groups Assessment Through a combination of written coursework (essays, book reviews, reaction papers), seminar presentations, and the compulsory 10,000-word dissertation in the final year. ...

Global Cinemas and Screen Arts (BA): 3-year, full-time

£ 9,250 + VAT