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In order to address any contemporary global challenge, it is vital that we understand the roots of the problem and its historical context. This module explores the broad history of conflict, enabling you to place global events within a wider context and consider how best to address them considering this historical background. It will introduce you to the history of civil and international war and consider the evolution of great-power conflict both prior to and since the Cold War. The module will also consider contemporary and future threats, such as new waves of terrorism and cyber conflict.

In order to address any contemporary global challenge, it is vital that we understand the roots of the problem and its historical context. This module explores the broad history of conflict, enabling you to place global events within a wider context and consider how best to address them considering this historical background. It will introduce you to the history of civil and international war and consider the evolution of great-power conflict both prior to and since the Cold War. The module will also consider contemporary and future threats, such as new waves of terrorism and cyber conflict.

In to order address any contemporary global challenge, it is vital that we understand the roots of the problem and its historical context. This module addresses energy and the environment, providing you with a broad overview of the history of energy use including coal, oil, and gas, as well as the rise of environmentalism in the twentieth century. It will explore how energy use has affected the Anthropocene in both broad and specific ways, such as the discovery of human-induced climate change and the impact of colonialism upon environmental challenges. Additionally, the module will consider the future of sustainable development considering this historical context and explore the ways in which future policy can approach these challenges.

In to order address any contemporary global challenge, it is vital that we understand the roots of the problem and its historical context. This module addresses energy and the environment, providing you with a broad overview of the history of energy use including coal, oil, and gas, as well as the rise of environmentalism in the twentieth century. It will explore how energy use has affected the Anthropocene in both broad and specific ways, such as the discovery of human-induced climate change and the impact of colonialism upon environmental challenges. Additionally, the module will consider the future of sustainable development considering this historical context and explore the ways in which future policy can approach these challenges.

In to order address any contemporary global challenge, it is vital that we understand the roots of the problem and its historical context. This module examines human rights and identity by broadly exploring the history of poverty and wealth from antiquity to the present day. It considers how political systems of economic control, such as capitalism and communism, have shaped human history. This module also investigates the post-war human rights movement and explores the contemporary challenges to these rights. Finally, the module takes a broad view of justice and identity by considering race, gender, and sexuality, and exploring the historic and contemporary challenges posed to these identities.

In to order address any contemporary global challenge, it is vital that we understand the roots of the problem and its historical context. This module examines human rights and identity by broadly exploring the history of poverty and wealth from antiquity to the present day. It considers how political systems of economic control, such as capitalism and communism, have shaped human history. This module also investigates the post-war human rights movement and explores the contemporary challenges to these rights. Finally, the module takes a broad view of justice and identity by considering race, gender, and sexuality, and exploring the historic and contemporary challenges posed to these identities.

In to order address any contemporary global challenge, it is vital that we understand the roots of the problem and its historical context. This module explores the history of global migration from the ancient world to the present day, considering how and why regimes of migration control emerged. It will address the specific histories of refugees in Europe during the Second World War and consider how the status of asylum, sanctuary, and anti-immigration rhetoric has developed historically. The module will also introduce you to key considerations about the future of migration and asylum, with a view to helping you think critically about how challenges associated with such movement can best be addressed.

In to order address any contemporary global challenge, it is vital that we understand the roots of the problem and its historical context. This module explores the history of global migration from the ancient world to the present day, considering how and why regimes of migration control emerged. It will address the specific histories of refugees in Europe during the Second World War and consider how the status of asylum, sanctuary, and anti-immigration rhetoric has developed historically. The module will also introduce you to key considerations about the future of migration and asylum, with a view to helping you think critically about how challenges associated with such movement can best be addressed.

While other modules in the Film Studies programme focus primarily on Hollywood and European cinema, in this module, this module aims to familiarise you with cinemas from other parts of the world, with celebrated and lesser-known examples of cinema from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. In addition, we will explore questions of production, distribution, and reception of films in a global economy, including scholarly reception within our own discipline.
The label ‘World cinema’ signals universality of the disparate films grouped under it, the ready mobility and availability of these films for our consumption, and an underlying separation of cinema into ‘the west’ versus ‘the rest.’ In this module, we will interrogate this idea of a ‘World cinema’: by tracing the historical emergence of this term, by exploring its limitations, and by critically interrogating this and similar labels in the context of the film studies curriculum.
Often understood as a reworking of ‘Third Cinema,’ which originated in Latin America in the late 1960s and was tied to national liberation movements, ‘World cinema’ emerged as an umbrella term to refer to various national cinemas outside Hollywood (as well as, for some, Europe). The module aims to problematize the concept of ‘national cinema,’ challenge notions of ‘pure cultures’, and ‘authenticity’ and explore prevalent tropes in the representation of ‘othered’ populations in main-stream and non-mainstream cinema.
Today, non-western cinema is still often marketed and consumed along categories of authenticity and exoticism, or on international (art) film festivals. Regional cinemas sometimes exploit culturally and ethnically specific cultures in ways that made them (and their makers) exportable and desirable abroad, often as a result of such market forces. Accordingly, we will discuss the categorization, circulation, and valorisation of films in the global marketplace. The module will build upon first year courses, challenging you to think about categories you have learnt about, such as genre, auteurism, audiences, festival circuits, and frameworks of circulation and funding within a broader horizon.
In addition to learning about and paying attention to such historically and locally specific power relations, we will also study examples of aesthetic tendencies travelling across countries, filmmakers, and languages. We will explore how hybrid forms, fusions of local and global aesthetics have continuously emerged, long before the latest era of globalization and transnational co-productions.

While other modules in the Film Studies programme focus primarily on Hollywood and European cinema, in this module, this module aims to familiarise you with cinemas from other parts of the world, with celebrated and lesser-known examples of cinema from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. In addition, we will explore questions of production, distribution, and reception of films in a global economy, including scholarly reception within our own discipline.
The label ‘World cinema’ signals universality of the disparate films grouped under it, the ready mobility and availability of these films for our consumption, and an underlying separation of cinema into ‘the west’ versus ‘the rest.’ In this module, we will interrogate this idea of a ‘World cinema’: by tracing the historical emergence of this term, by exploring its limitations, and by critically interrogating this and similar labels in the context of the film studies curriculum.
Often understood as a reworking of ‘Third Cinema,’ which originated in Latin America in the late 1960s and was tied to national liberation movements, ‘World cinema’ emerged as an umbrella term to refer to various national cinemas outside Hollywood (as well as, for some, Europe). The module aims to problematize the concept of ‘national cinema,’ challenge notions of ‘pure cultures’, and ‘authenticity’ and explore prevalent tropes in the representation of ‘othered’ populations in main-stream and non-mainstream cinema.
Today, non-western cinema is still often marketed and consumed along categories of authenticity and exoticism, or on international (art) film festivals. Regional cinemas sometimes exploit culturally and ethnically specific cultures in ways that made them (and their makers) exportable and desirable abroad, often as a result of such market forces. Accordingly, we will discuss the categorization, circulation, and valorisation of films in the global marketplace. The module will build upon first year courses, challenging you to think about categories you have learnt about, such as genre, auteurism, audiences, festival circuits, and frameworks of circulation and funding within a broader horizon.
In addition to learning about and paying attention to such historically and locally specific power relations, we will also study examples of aesthetic tendencies travelling across countries, filmmakers, and languages. We will explore how hybrid forms, fusions of local and global aesthetics have continuously emerged, long before the latest era of globalization and transnational co-productions.