Postgraduate

In Luton

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Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Luton

  • Duration

    1 Year

To provides an overview of the cinema in a worldwide perspective, with the opportunity to examine the work of individual filmmakers in more detail. Suitable for students seeking a job in cinema-related fields in areas such as programming, marketing or administration. It is also a valuable academic qualification for people teaching film studies at all levels.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Luton (Bedfordshire)
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Bedfordshire Institute Of Media And The Creative & Performing Arts, University Of Bedfordshire, Luton Campus, LU1 3JU

Start date

On request

About this course

A lower second class first degree or a postgraduate qualification such as a Postgraduate Certificate in Media Studies or the equivalent.

Special entry requirements
All applicants must have the ability to study and complete all assessments with a suitably high standard of English, which in the case of overseas students will be assessed in accordance with University policy.

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Course programme

MA in International Cinema
Mode: full-time

Born at the start of the twentieth century, the cinema soon spread to all parts of the globe. It became a means of expression for cultures the world over, but also an industry dominated by a handful of mainly American companies.

Uniquely in the UK, this course looks at all aspects of the cinema phenomenon; at aesthetics and economics, at the work of individual filmmakers in all corners of the globe and the activities of large corporations, and at the inter-relations between all these aspects.

Additionally, as part of our Media Arts postgraduate provision, it provides a thorough grounding in the study of the media as a whole, enabling students to get a clearer picture of the place of cinema in the wider world of global media.

The course also offers opportunities for self-directed directed Independent Study which can be either a piece of production work or a theoretical dissertation and allows students to pursue their own particular area of interest (subject to suitable supervisory availability) within the named award programme.

Areas of study include:

  • Research Methods
  • Media Theory
  • European Cinema 1945-75
  • Post-colonial and 'Third' Cinema
  • Film Analysis
  • Representation and Reality
  • What is Cinema?
  • World Cinema and Global Media Since 1975

Why choose this course?

  • This course was the first Master’s course to focus on the relation between cinema as art and industry in the global context
  • The course was written by leading international cinema expert, Professor Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, editor of the Oxford History of World Cinema
  • We boast a £5.5m Media Arts Centre which includes ten digital video suites, experts in film analysis, and regular seminars, screenings and guest speakers
  • We were ranked 3rd in the country for our Media courses in the Guardian 2007 league tables

Assessment

Normally by essay, written exercises, presentations and self-directed independent study.

International Cinema

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