MA Film Studies

The MA in Film Studies is taught as either a one-year full-time course or a two-year part-time course. You will have opportunities to learn from some of the world’s leading researchers about specialist topics ranging from feminist film and television studies through to transnational and British cinema.

This programme is structured to ensure that the compulsory modules provide you with an advanced understanding of the cultural contexts in which films are made, distributed and consumed around the world. You will learn through seminars, screenings, tutorials and production modules, including workshop-based teaching and practical assignments. The course will develop your expertise in the main approaches within the field: archival research, textual analysis, industrial analysis, and audience and reception studies. You will also benefit from a range of optional and compulsory modules drawing on the areas for which we are internationally renowned: film history, British cinema, gender studies, genre studies and film audiences.

Towards the end of your Master’s course you will pursue an area of specialist study by writing a dissertation investigating a particular academic methodology or topic (for example feminist film production, genre, authorship, or national cinema studies). You will be assigned a member of staff as a supervisor, who will advise you on the research and writing up of this extended piece of work.