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FILM6031 2026-27
Film Stardom and Celebrity Culture
The module explores issues of stardom and media celebrity in relation to debates on persona, performance, iconography, consumerism and capitalism, as well as issues of gender, sexuality and ethnicity. The emphasis will be on historical and industrial context throughout, highlighting within each case study and through the module as a whole, the ways in which stars and celebrities are interrelated to their media industrial and hisotrical context. -
FILM6060 2025-26
Film Studies Dissertation
The dissertation is a personal research project of 10,000 words, which is completed with some guidance from a personal supervisor. It takes place over the Summer period and should involve original research and high-quality formal written presentation of material. -
FILM6060 2026-27
Film Studies Dissertation
The dissertation is a personal research project of 10,000 words, which is completed with some guidance from a personal supervisor. It takes place over the Summer period and should involve original research and high-quality formal written presentation of material. -
FILM6036 2025-26
Film Studies Individually Negotiated Topic
This involves an in-depth study of a specific area in film analysis, history or theory. Subject areas are chosen in collaboration with the MA Coordinator, and content is negotiated individually between the student and the tutor with relevant expertise. Course content and assessment modes are agreed by the end of the second week of the semester in which the course is taken and recorded on the student’s course selection form (returned to the MA Coordinator). This module provides students on the Film Studies MAs with a short, highly supervised ‘bite’ of research on a topic of their choosing (within the range of topic for which the Department can provide expert supervision) in preparation for the more extended and independent work required for the MA dissertation. -
FILM6036 2026-27
Film Studies Individually Negotiated Topic
This involves an in-depth study of a specific area in film analysis, history or theory. Subject areas are chosen in collaboration with the MA Coordinator, and content is negotiated individually between the student and the tutor with relevant expertise. Course content and assessment modes are agreed by the end of the second week of the semester in which the course is taken and recorded on the student’s course selection form (returned to the MA Coordinator). This module provides students on the Film Studies MAs with a short, highly supervised ‘bite’ of research on a topic of their choosing (within the range of topic for which the Department can provide expert supervision) in preparation for the more extended and independent work required for the MA dissertation. -
FILM1018 2025-26
Film Theory, Media, Culture and Society
The module will introduce you to some of the debates key to film criticism, by reference to influential film theorists and to some fundamental ideas from which contemporary critical approaches have been developed. -
FILM1018 2026-27
Film Theory, Media, Culture and Society
The module will introduce you to some of the debates key to film criticism, by reference to influential film theorists and to some fundamental ideas from which contemporary critical approaches have been developed. -
FILM2026 2026-27
Film, Realism and Reality: representing the world, from revolution to the everyday
This module will introduce you to some of the principal realist and documentary movements, asking how the simple aim to ‘show things as they really are’ has resulted in a range of creative and wildly different cinematic forms. It will consider the issue as one of film aesthetics, and will trace its development historically, ranging from early cinema to reality TV, and as a global question of film movements. It will discuss the different political purposes of different types of realist and documentary cinemas, their relationship to industrial questions and state institutions, and ask how their social aims produce different artistic and formal outcomes, each of which expresses an idea about how cinema functions as a way of knowing the world and of changing it – or of keeping it as it is. -
FILM2026 2027-28
Film, Realism and Reality: representing the world, from revolution to the everyday
This module will introduce you to some of the principal realist and documentary movements, asking how the simple aim to ‘show things as they really are’ has resulted in a range of creative and wildly different cinematic forms. It will consider the issue as one of film aesthetics, and will trace its development historically, ranging from early cinema to reality TV, and as a global question of film movements. It will discuss the different political purposes of different types of realist and documentary cinemas, their relationship to industrial questions and state institutions, and ask how their social aims produce different artistic and formal outcomes, each of which expresses an idea about how cinema functions as a way of knowing the world and of changing it – or of keeping it as it is. -
FILM3042 2027-28
Film, TV and Digital Media Dissertation
The dissertation is an independent research project which is the result of an in-depth study of an area of Film, TV and Digital Media studies. A dissertation gives you the opportunity to study a subject in much greater depth than usual and, with guidance from a supervisor, you will rigorously explore your topic, formulate a research question and develop a distinctive argument.
You will be able to choose between a traditional dissertation or a practice dissertation:
-the traditional dissertation is a sustained piece of independent study (8,000 words) on an area of Film, TV and/or Digital Media studies.
- a practice dissertation consists of two parts: a digital media or data-based output (e.g. data collection project, a short film or video essay or other digital media output), plus an independent critical analysis of 4,000 words.
It should not replicate assessed work in other final year modules.