Ma film studies languages linguistics and film
Postgraduate
In London
Description
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Type
Postgraduate
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Location
London
Overview
This MA offers you the opportunity to explore key aspects of film analysis, theory, history and practice. Through a range of different approaches to the study of film, including genre and textual analysis, audience studies, and media archaeology, you will be exposed to some of the most pressing debates about film today. Questions of ethics and whether we can consider film as a document; of how film works on our bodies as an affective medium; the reasons for film’s close affinity to urban, cosmopolitan and diasporic cultures; and the historical legacy of film as an international, and now transnational medium, are all central to the course. In exploring these questions, you will be introduced to some of the liveliest and most important chapters in the history of cinema.
The MA is both a valuable qualification in its own right and a pathway if you wish to study subsequently for a PhD in Film Studies.
This programme will:
Allow you to explore key aspects of film analysis, theory, history and practice.
Give you the opportunity to develop practical film making, scriptwriting, and directing skills, as well as study theoretical modules.
Offer you the chance to debate cutting edge issues in Film Studies. Compared to other Film Studies departments, Queen Mary has particular strengths in new areas of research in Film Philosophy, in Ecocinema and Screening Nature, and in film outside the cinema – in art galleries, on public screens, across social media.
Why study your MA in Film Studies at Queen Mary?.
From the earliest days of British cinema, London was the location of most British studios and it remains the national focal point for studying film ensive libraries, including the Postgraduate Reading Room, and The British Library can also be accessed as a research resource.
The Department of Film has its own studio facilities and 41-seat cinema, you will have access to facilities and equipment, including:
Film studios
Edit suites
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Subjects
- Media
- Cinema
- Film Analysis
- Film Studies
- Ethics
- Philosophy
Course programme
Structure
Programme structure MA Film Studies is currently available for one year full-time study or two years part-time study.
You will take the Film Studies core module which spans two semesters and examines the many ways in which film has, during the course of a century, shaped both time and space. Drawing on an eclectic range of historical moments the module also provides an overview of national and transnational cinemas cultures (incorporating discussion of films from the USA, Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Russia and Latin America). You will also choose two single-semester module options. In addition, you will also complete an independent Film Studies Dissertation or Research Project.
Core module- Film Studies
- Film Studies Dissertation or Research Project
- Documentary Film: Theory and Practice
- History, Fiction and Memory in French Cinema
- Hollywood and the Second World War (from the School of History)
- The Films of Powell and Pressburger
- 9/11 and American Film
- Cinemuseology: Theorising Cinema and the Museum
- Ecocinemas
- Film and Ethics
- Film Philosophy
- Mapping Contemporary Cinema
- New Independent Indian Cinema
You will also be able to take one option offered by another MA programme in Film or Screen Studies at Birkbeck, Goldsmiths, King’s, SOAS, or UCL, if a topic is of particular interest, through our joint agreement.
For more information: Visit the Film Studies website.
Ma film studies languages linguistics and film