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Film Studies

Film Studies

P303  BA/FSt
Three years
 
Programme description
The Single Honours Film Studies degree introduces you to a range of international cinema movements, figures, texts and theories. In the first year you take eight modules designed to provide a solid foundation in cinema history, the European industry, film language, concepts and technology. In later years you modules in film theory and a selection of options in specialist areas of your choice. The final year gives you the opportunity to undertake a supervised project, either written or practical, while the remainder of the programme is made up of advanced study in specialist areas that correspond to your interests and skills.
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Programme outline

Year 1

Core modules:

  • Introduction to Film
  • Auteurism: The European Tradition
  • Stars
  • Genre

Options include:

  • Scriptwriting: Creativity and Technique
  • German Film 1
  • Production Skills
  • Critical Approaches to Film: Alfred Hitchcock

Year 2

Core modules:

  • What is Cinema? Critical Approaches

Options include:

  • Directing Drama
  • Scriptwriting
  • French New Wave
  • Contemporary French Cinema
  • Italian Cinema
  • Russian Film
  • Introduction to British Cinema
  • British Horror
  • German Film: The Divided Screen 
  • Gender and Spanish Cinema
  • Brazilian Cinema

Year 3

Options include:

  • Film Research Project
  • Creative Production
  • Screening the Past: The French History Film
  • Images of Otherness in French and Francophone Cinema
  • Luis Buñuel
  • Pedro Almodóvar
  • British Cinema post 1960
  • Contemporary American Cinema
  • Contemporary Italian Cinema
  • Production Practice
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Assessment

Most modules combine assessed coursework and an end-of-course exam, though the proportion may vary (50/50 per cent or 20/80 per cent). Some modules, including the practical ones, are assessed by coursework only. Final year students have the opportunity to pursue a sustained piece of research or to develop an extended production project.

For further information regarding assessment for specific modules, please see: www.sllf.qmul.ac.uk/courses/

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Career opportunities
Potential careers include directly related fields like film and television, especially on the production side. You’ll also be well placed for jobs in the media sector generally: journalism, public relations, advertising, new media and so on. Careers demanding good communications skills, such as teaching, personnel management and marketing will be open to you, plus, of course, many other graduate careers for which a specific degree is not needed, from management consultancy and accountancy to finance and law. Every year we have lots of students who go on to study further at postgraduate level (be warned – Film Studies can be addictive!)
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Entry requirements

Please refer to our detailed entry requirements [new window] for Film Studies.

 

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Further information

Please contact:
Julia Rollitt
School of Languages, Linguistics and Film
Tel:+44 (0)20 7882 8331
Fax: +44 (0)20 8980 5400
email: sllf-ug@qmul.ac.uk

For further information you can also call the Enquiries Hotline (UK callers only) on Freephone 0800 376 1800. International students should contact the Admissions and Recruitment Office on +44 (0)20 7882 5511
email:admissions@qmul.ac.uk for further information or visit www.qmul.ac.uk/international

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John Hoang, Film Studies and Drama

John Hoang

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