The combination of English and Film Studies offers a challenging and stimulating programme of study that seeks to enhance your understanding of a range of texts and to engage critically with a range of key films and filmmakers. This degree offers you the opportunity to study in a Department that has a thriving and internationally recognised research culture.
Reading English allows you to study some of the most interesting and exciting books ever written. The English programme strikes a balance between the study of writers such as Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, Dickens, and Woolf, and the exploration of less traditional areas like modern science fiction, children's literature and contemporary women?s writing. Study visits to local and national theatres help broaden your outlook and add a further dimension to your studies.
Film Studies offers an excellent balance of theory and practice, allowing you to engage with essential critical and aesthetic approaches to a range of films and to apply those creatively to a range of practical projects. The course provides opportunities to screen your work on and off-campus, to undertake commissioned work and to engage with the film industry through self-generated work placements, thereby encouraging the development of critical knowledge alongside transferable and vocational skills. Access to the Department?s excellent facilities, including TV studios, two multimedia studios plus digital video and 16mm film production and editing suites allows you to develop skills to match industry requirements.
Students take half their degree from English and half from Film Studies.
Module guide
Year one modules:
Introduction to English Literature 1 and 2 (compulsory)
Ways of Reading (compulsory)
Introduction to Film and Cinema (compulsory)
Visualization, Research and Storyboarding
Film and Genre
Introduction to Screenwriting
History of Cinema
Introduction to Video
Film Reviewing
Year two modules:
Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (compulsory)
Romantic Conflicts
The Victorian Experience: Texts and Contexts
Poetry from Marlowe to Milton
Myth and Medievalism
Imperial and Postcolonial Writing
Special Topic 1 (currently Writing Nations)
News and Feature Writing
Enlightenment in England and France
Performance and Identity
Theorizing the Specular and Classical Hollywood Cinema (compulsory)
Film, Identity and Globalization
Documentary Film Theory
16 mm Filmmaking
Screenwriting: The Short Film
Introduction to European Cinema
Independent Cinema: US and Beyond
Video Documentary
Animation
Screenwriting: Script to Screen
European Cinema and Identity
Year three core modules:
Major Project in English or Film Studies (compulsory)
Modernism and the City
Women?s Writing, Gender and Sexuality
Special Topic 2 (currently Theorizing Children?s Literature)
After the Deluge: Writing, Film, Culture and Society since 1945
Contemporary Fiction
Modern Science Fiction
Synoptic Course Review
Writing Poetry
Film Art
Genocide: Perspectives on the Holocaust
Autobiography: Self, Narrative and Truth
Film Art
Film, Modernity and Postmodernity
Cinema and Sound
Creative Practice in Film and Video
Working in Film
Avant-garde Film and Experimental Video
Multiplexed: Contemporary Popular Cinema
Screenwriting: Adaptation
Film Journalism
. 200 - 240 tariff points at A Level or equivalent. Required subject(s): A Level English or English Language or English - Language & Literature at grade C GCSE(s) Preferred: Preferred English, grade C For an explanation of qualifications, have a look at our IAG page on this site www.creativeway.org.uk/quals
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