Film Studies

Description

Film studies is an exciting and challenging subject that provides a critical understanding of film as popular entertainment, theoretical discipline, industry and art form.

Looking back to film’s nineteenth-century origins and forward to today’s innovations in digital technology, you will explore the role of cinema across different social, historical and cultural contexts. You will study a diverse range of filmmakers and influential movements, from Alfred Hitchcock to Pedro Almodóvar, and from German expressionism to contemporary US cinema.

Film studies employs a multitude of interpretive tools, from sociological approaches to close textual analysis.Our programmes build a series of key skills valued by employers, including interpersonal communication, organisation and time-management abilities, and also offer you the opportunity to conduct primary research in archives and libraries around the country.

Other specific skills include writing and oral presentation skills. Our professional practice strand on the BA Film Studies programme will also familiarise you with several key requirements of the creative industries. The Avenue Library houses a comprehensive, diverse collection of films (approximately 4,000 DVDs and 2,000 videos, with many more at our Harley and Winchester libraries) from around the world.

There is a thriving film culture both on and off campus, and the Students’ Union has an active Film Society and an award-winning film-making society – Wessex Films.

Detailed Course Facts

• GBP 9000 Year (EEA)
• GBP 14660 Year (Non-EEA)

• English

Course Content

You can select from a wide range of innovative modules. Alongside knowledge of the critical theoretical debates in film studies, you can develop practical skills, such as film-making. You have the option to take 25 per cent of your programme in an alternative subject.Year one offers a grounding in how to read film, covering key debates in film theory and cinema history.Specialist practical option modules in years two and three in documentary film making or scriptwriting.Individually supervised dissertation on a topic of your choice in year three

Typical course content

• Popular film genres
• Film aesthetics
• Cinema pre-history
• Critical theories, cultural history
• World cinema
• Hollywood
• European film
• Cinematography
• Professional practice
• Creative writing/screenwriting

Innovation modules outside of your subject area

Our Curriculum Innovation Programme offers you the chance to take optional modules outside of your chosen subject area. This allows you to personalise your education, to develop new skills and knowledge for your future. Modules range from "Living and working on the web" to "Business skills for employability".

Learn a language

Some of our courses also give you the option of taking a language module, which can count towards your degree. These modules cover ten languages and range from absolute beginner to near-native speaker level.

Requirements

A Levels:

AAB to ABB including an essay writing subject

or

ABB including an essay writing subject and A in Extended Project Qualification

We do not accept General Studies.

IB:

34 or 32 points overall, 17 or 16 at higher level including an essay writing subject

International Foundation Year

International students who do not currently meet our entry requirements may be able to join this course on successful completion of our International Foundation Year. For more information visit the IFY course page

Selection process:

Intake: 50 Average applicants per place: 6

UCAS application and some interviews

Work Experience

No work experience is required.

Related Scholarships*

• Academic Excellence Scholarship

  "The Academic Excellence Scholarship can provide up to a 50 % reduction in tuition per semester. These scholarships will be renewed if the student maintains superior academic performance during each semester of their 3-year Bachelor programme. The scholarship will be directly applied to the student’s tuition fees."

• Access Bursary

  Bursary for UK students all subjects where the variable tuition fee rate is payable.

• Alumni Bursary

  Alumni Bursary for UK Undergraduate students

* The scholarships shown on this page are suggestions first and foremost. They could be offered by other organisations than University of Southampton.