MA in Global Cinemas and the Transcultural

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  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    City of london

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Mode of Attendance: Full-time or Part-time
**Please note that that this degree will NOT be running in 2018/19**
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The MA in Global Cinemas and the Transcultural offers students the unique opportunity to study in-depth regional cinemas outside the now standard research topographies, both geographical and theoretical, of mainstream cinema studies, so opening up avenues for advanced research in areas and methodologies as yet untapped. Alternatively, it provides an avenue of study for those simply wishing to obtain a post-graduate qualification in Cinema Studies without being confined to a European- and/or American-centric world-view.The degree is designed around a compulsory core module, Cinema, Nation and the Transcultural, that simultaneously challenges existing critical paradigms defining 'national cinema' in the simplistic terms of geographical zones of production and reception, while offering alternative methodological approaches to the study of cinema within the local/global, inter-cultural contexts of the post-modern world. The elective elements of the degree allow students the opportunity to specialize in one or more of the many regional cinemas on offer in the School: Japanese, Chinese (mainland, Hong Kong & Taiwanese), mainland and maritime South East Asian, Indian, Iranian, Middle Eastern and African). It also enables students to combine specialist film studies knowledge with a minor module in an Asian or African language or to advance their social and cultural knowledge of a given region through an ethnographic module. Alternatively, through our links with University of London Screen Studies Group , students may choose from a selection of elective modules to further develop cross-cultural perspectives in an east/west framework.

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Subjects

  • Production
  • Media
  • School
  • University
  • Hindi
  • Image
  • Film Studies
  • Thai
  • IT
  • Communication Skills
  • Cinema
  • Global
  • Cinema Studies
  • Film
  • Chinese Diaspora
  • Intercultural awareness
  • Gender Theory
  • Global Cinemas
  • Transcultural
  • Indian Cinema
  • Anthropology
  • Screen Studies

Course programme

Students take 180 credits, 60 of which are a dissertation and a 120 from taught modules. Of the taught modules, students must complete the core module Cinema, Nation & the Transcultural - 15PJKC023 (30 credits), 30 credits from List A, a minimum of a further 30 credits from List A or List B. A total of 30 credits may be taken as an open option.

Compulsory Modules

Students must take the compulsory modules below.

  • Cinema, Nation and Transcultural Asia
  • Dissertation For MA Global Cinemas And The Transcultural
Optional Modules - List A

Students must take 30 credits from List A. You may take more.

  • Curating Africa: African Film and Video in the Age of Festivals
  • The Story of African Film: Narrative Screen Media in Africa
  • Aspects of African film and video 2
  • Film and Society in the Middle East
  • Genders and Sexualities in South East Asian Film
  • Indian Cinema: Its History and Social Context
  • Indian Cinema: Key Issues
  • Issues in Anthropology and Film
  • Japanese Post-War Film Genres and the Avant-Garde
  • Japanese Transnational Cinema: From Kurosawa to Asia Extreme and Studio Ghibli
  • Modern Chinese Film and Theatre (MA)
  • Modern Film from Taiwan and the Chinese Diaspora
  • (Post) Colonialism and Otherness in South East Asia on Screen
  • Post-crisis Thai Cinema (1997-2007)
  • Indonesia on Screen(PG)
  • Vietnam on Screen (PG)
Optional modules: List B

You may select up to 30 - 60 credits from List B.

Other modules on Media
  • Japanese Television since 1953
  • Theoretical and Contemporary Issues in Global Media and Post-National Communication
  • Curating Africa: African Film and Video in the Age of Festivals
Modules in Social Anthropology
  • Culture and Society of China
  • Culture and Society of East Africa
  • Culture and Society of Japan
  • Culture and Society of South Asia
  • Culture and Society of South East Asia
  • Culture and Society of Near and Middle East
  • Culture and Society of West Africa
Modules in South Asian StudiesOptional Modules - List C

Students may take a 30 credit language module from List C. Student are permitted to take a 15 credit module at a partner institution. Modules taken outside SOAS are governed by the regulations of the home institution.

Language Modules

You may select 30 credits from the list of languages below.

Africa
  • Amharic 1 (PG)
  • Amharic 2 (PG)
  • Hausa 1 (PG)
  • Hausa 2 (PG)
  • Somali 1 (PG)
  • Somali 2 (PG)
  • Swahili 1 (PG)
  • Intermediate Swahili 2A (PG)
  • Swahili 3 (PG)
  • Swahili 4 (PG)
  • Yoruba 1 (PG)
  • Yoruba 2 (PG)
China and Inner Asia
  • Elementary Spoken Cantonese (PG)
  • Elementary spoken Hokkien (Minnanyu, Taiwanese) (PG)
  • Chinese 1 (PG)
  • Chinese 2 (PG)
  • Chinese 3 (PG)
  • Chinese 4 (PG)
  • Special Course in Chinese: Reading Classical and Literary Chinese (PG)
Japan and Korea
  • Japanese 1 (PG)
  • Japanese 2 (PG)
  • Korean 1 (PG)
  • Korean 2 (PG)
  • Korean Readings (PG)
  • Japanese 3 (PG
  • Japanese 4 (PG)
Near and Middle East
  • Elementary Persian Texts (PG)
  • Elementary Written Persian
  • Elementary Written Turkish
  • Intermediate Modern Turkish Language (PG)
  • Modern Hebrew Language: Elementary (PG)
South Asia
  • Bengali Language 1 (PG)
  • Bengali Language 2 (PG)
  • Hindi Language 2 (PG)
  • Hindi Language 3 (PG)
  • Hindi Language 4 (PG)
  • Nepali Language 1 (PG)
  • Nepali Language 2 (PG)
  • Punjabi Language 1
  • Sanskrit Language 1 (PG)
  • Sanskrit Language 2 (PG)
  • Prakrit Language 1 (PG)
  • Urdu Language 1 (PG)
  • Urdu Language 2 (PG)
South East Asia
  • Burmese Language 1 (PG)
  • Burmese Language 2 (PG)
  • Indonesian Language 1 (PG)
  • Indonesian Language 1 (PG)
  • Indonesian Language 2 (PG)
  • Indonesian Language 3 (PG)
  • Indonesian Language 4 (PG)
  • Indonesian Language 4 (PG)
  • Thai Language 1 (PG)
  • Thai Language 2 (PG)
  • Thai Language 3 (PG)
  • Vietnamese Language 1 (PG)
  • Vietnamese Language 2 (PG)
Modules from the following MA programmes offered by affiliated colleges in the University of London

MA in the History of Film and Visual Media (Birkbeck College); MA Film Studies (Queen Mary); MA Screen Studies (Goldsmiths College); MA Contemporary Cinema Cultures (Kings College); MA Film Studies (UCL)

NOTE:

SOAS students may take 15 credits from the list below. SOAS is not responsible for the running of these modules. Students should contact the relevant institution for further information.

Birkbeck

British Film and Television 1960-85 (Term 1); European Cinema at the Crossroads (Term 1); Exhibiting the Moving Image: Theory and Context (Term 1); Film Festivals (Term 2; this course includes a 10 day field trip); Global Television (Term 2); Exploring the Language of Image and Sound (Term 2); Contemporary American Cinema (Term 2)

Goldsmiths

Strategies of World Cinema (Term 1); Archaeology of the Moving Image (Term 1) Politics of the Audiovisual (Term 2); Experimental Media (Term 2); Contemporary Screen Narratives (Term 2); Representing Reality (Term 2)

Kings College

Cinema the City (Term 1); Popular European Cinema (Term 1); Cinema and War (Term 1); Film History and the Cinema Experience (Term 1); Analysing Film Performance: Comedy (Term 1); Experimental Film and Philosophy (Term 1) Exploitation Cinema (Term 2); Thinking Cinema: Theory, Philosophy, Ethics (Term 2); Cinema and Sentiment (Term 2); London Film Cultures (Term 2); The Moving Image in Art (Term 2)

UCL

These modules are subject to confirmation: Nordic Cinema: Contextualising Dreyer, Bergman and Dogme (Term 1); The French New Wave: Cahier Cinema (Term 1) Genre in Italian Cinema (Term 2); Spanish Film (Term 2); New Argentina Cinemas (Term 2); How to make an 8-minute documentary (Term 2); Political Cinema (Term 2); Film Exhibition (Term 2); Theories and Practices of Film (Term 2); The Idea of Documentary (Term 2); Russian Cinema: Epochs and Genres (Term 2)

Queen Mary

Paris on the Screen (Term 1) Films of Powell & Pressburger (Term 2); Moving Landscapes: the Berlin School in an International Context (Term 2); Hollywood and the 2nd World War (Term 2)

Institute of Education

Moving Image Production (Term 1) Digital Games, Play and Creativity (Term 2)

This is the structure for 2018/19 applicants

If you are a current student you can find structure information on Moodle or through your Department.

Programme Specification
  • MA Global Cinemas and the Transcultural Programme Structure 2017/18 (pdf; 74kb)
  • MA in Global Cinemas and the Transcultural - Programme Specifications 2017/18 (pdf; 135kb)
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