Study Details: MA 1 Year FT, 2 Years PT
The Film Studies MA provides an exciting intellectual challenge in the way it focuses on what continues to be arguably the most significant and popular modern mass media. It approaches the medium in an original cross-disciplinary fashion. The course draws insights from diverse disciplines as history, sociology, art history, comparative studies and aesthetics and from major intellectual perspectives as feminism, postmodernism, postcolonial theory, semiotics and psychoanalysis.
The Film Studies MA is jointly run, and in parts co-taught, by the fields of film studies and media studies, a collaboration which ensures that you enjoy the opportunity to engage with two vibrant areas of academic fields. The course builds upon the specialist expertise and wide-ranging experience of colleagues from within the two fields. It is informed by staff research into a wide variety of areas, including gender and sexuality on screen, religion, philosophy and film, censorship and ideology, industry and independents in New Hollywood, as well as cinema and media in the global context.
The programme is concerned with all that is new, vital and innovative in contemporary cinema, and focuses on a wide range of theoretical approaches to films, providing an in-depth study of selected areas of contemporary American, European and World cinema.
Our aim is to provide a supportive, stimulating and challenging course, which promotes a holistic, synoptic approach to film to encourage self-reliance, self-confidence and independence.
You will study all that is new, vital and innovative in contemporary and emergent cinemas. You will evaluate and critically analyse a range of perspectives on cinema in light of contemporary developments, shifting cultural alliances and patterns of cross-fertilisations. You will be introduced to the main areas of debate in the history of film criticism. You will also learn the research skills required to conduct independent study such as your dissertation project.
A second class degree or above in a Humanities subject (Film, Media Studies, Languages, History, English, etc) or in the History of Art, Fine Art or other studio-based subjects which include an art historical or contextual studies component, or another area appropriate to the degree.
Consideration is also given to non-standard entrants with relevant work experience that demonstrates the necessary skills and intellectual achievement required to undertake the course.
The Faculty warmly welcomes mature students.
We normally invite applicants for an interview with the course director or another senior member of the teaching team. International students based overseas can arrange for an interview by email or telephone.
Applicants with prior qualifications and learning may be exempt from appropriate parts of a course in accordance with the University’s policy for the assessment of prior learning and prior experiential learning. Contact the faculty office1 for further information.
All non-UK applicants must meet our English language requirements. For this course it is Academic IELTS of 6.5 overall, with special conditions2 in all elements. Please make sure you read our full guidance about English language requirements2, which includes details of other qualifications we’ll consider.
Applicants who do not meet the English language requirements may be eligible to join our pre-sessional English language course3.
Applicants from one of the recognised majority English speaking countries (MESCs)4 do not need to meet these requirements.
Home and European Union 2014/15 MA full time £4,700, MA part time £2,350. ELQ (Equivalent Lower Qualification) fee 2014/15 MA full time £5,540, MA part time £2,770. Overseas (not EU) 2014/15 MA full time £12,100, MA part time £6,050
Please note that this is an indicative list of modules and is not intended as a definitive list.
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