Study Details: MA 1 year full-time,
2 years part-time
Engage in a challenging, imaginative study of contemporary debates in film and literature; create and explore your own balance between these two fascinating fields of study.
The interdisciplinary MA in Film and Literature combines critical inquiry and independent research with passionately committed teaching from world-leading scholars. You can study high culture and pop culture, silent cinema and contemporary release; you can compare theoretical questions with creative practice, blockbuster with poetry, mainstream with avant-garde. The course explores critical, theoretical, and contextual approaches to film and literature, offering specialisations in global political film, documentary, Shakespeare on film, adaptation and transmediality, post-war and Cold War European and American film, as well as access to a full range of literary modules drawn from our MA programme as a whole.
The course will provide you with a foundation for doctoral research, and transferable skills for related careers in arts and festival management, teaching, publishing and journalism. There will be a diverse schedule of seminars, conferences and reading groups for you to attend as a member of the Department of English, one of the UK’s largest research centres in modern English, as well as the Humanities Research Centre, a vibrant interdisciplinary hub which will enable you to form close social and intellectual bonds over the course of your study.
2:2 or equivalent. We will consider applications from students with lower qualifications, particularly if you have high marks in relevant modules or appropriate professional experience.
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Our postgraduates go into a wide variety of industries, from arts administration to law. Many alumni have also gone on to become successful novelists, poets and playwrights.
These modules present case studies of literature and film in the full diversity of their textual, contextual, historical and theoretical relationships. You'll be introduced to an illustrative range of interdisciplinary ‘encounters’, addressing film and literature as media with their own aesthetics and narrative codes; the social and institutional systems that facilitate (or impede) the transfer between them; the questions of style and creativity that sustain and inspire critical inquiry. You'll also develop valuable research, writing and presentation skills.
Core modules
Your core modules will cover topics such as:
Film/Literature Encounters: History, Theory, Criticism
Postgraduate Life in Practice
Option modules
You will also study three option modules. Examples can be found below. Some option module combinations may not be possible. The options available to you will be confirmed after you begin your course.
“They’ve Gotta Have Us”: African American Film and Literature after 1960
Cold War Cultures: Literature, Film and Theory in Post War Europe
Auteures: Gender, Power, and Authorship in Film and Literature
Back to Babylon: Queer Theory, Genre, and Hollywood’s Golden Age (1930-1950)
Our modules may change to reflect the latest academic thinking and expertise of our staff, and in line with Department/School academic planning.
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