History and film studies ba (hons)

Queen Mary University of London
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Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    3 Years

Teaching
Teaching and learning
You'll receive approximately 10 to 12 hours of weekly contact time per module, in the form of lectures led by academic staff, smaller seminar groups, workshop sessions, film screenings and group work in the studio or on location.
For every hour spent in class, you'll complete a further two to three hours of independent study. This time is spent reading, preparing for seminars, working on projects and revising for exams.
Assessment
Assessment typically includes a combination of coursework and end-of-module exams, although some modules are assessed by coursework only. Final-year students have the opportunity to pursue a sustained piece of research or to develop an extended film production project or long script.
Resources and facilities
The School offers excellent on-campus resources to aid your studies, including:
the Queen Mary library
a vibrant History Society
the Queen Mary History Journal, a major scholarly publication stocked by the British Library, which is written, produced and edited entirely by students
our state-of-the-art 41-seater cinema
a large range of professional and broadcast-standard production and post-production equipment, including: a film production suite, two film studios with professional lighting grids, two edit suites, and motion capture equipment
a central London location that offers ready access to a wealth of world-class libraries, archives, museums and galleries.
Learn another language
If you’re interested in learning another language, you can sign up for a course at Queen Mary’s Language Centre, where you can choose from Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Japanese or Spanish.

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67-69 Lincoln'S Inn Fields, WC2A 3JB

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Subjects

  • Production
  • Art
  • Film Production
  • Teaching
  • Film Studies
  • Cinema

Course programme

Structure

You can complete your History and 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 Compulsory

  • Approaches and Analysis
  • Concepts and History
  • History in Practice
  • Screening History: Representing the Past in the Contemporary Historical Film
Choose one from
  • Europe in a Global Context since 1800
  • Unravelling Britain: 1800 to present
Choose one from
  • Building the American Nation: 1756-1900
  • Europe 1000-1500: The Middle Ages and their legacy

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 2 Compulsory

  • What is cinema?
Choose at least three from
  • Alfred Hitchcock and the New Film History
  • British Horror: Film, Television and Literature
  • Contemporary Art and Society
  • Japanese Film: History, Culture and Fantasy
  • Jews in Film
  • London on Film: Representing the City in British and American Cinema
Choose at least one from
  • Documentary: Theory and Practice
  • From Page to Screen
  • Introduction to British Cinema
  • The French New Wave

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 3 Compulsory

History special subject and dissertation which could be in one of the following subjects:

  • British Cinema and the Second World War: Propaganda, Myth and Memory
  • Making Thatcher's Britain: The Thatcher Revolution, 1975-1997
  • The Kennedy Years
  • The Sixties Cultural Revolution in Germany and Britain
  • The War on Terror
Choose three from
  • Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
  • Film Archaeology
  • Film and Ethics
  • New Independent Indian Cinema
  • Screening the Past: The French History Film in the 1980s and 1990s
  • Yakuza: Exploring the Japanese Gangster Film

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 History and 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.

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