Join a friendly community of experts and learn about topics like film history, television, cultural studies, and gender studies, from all around the world. Whether you're advanced in the field or looking for an introduction to film studies, we'll help you build on your passion for film. You'll explore a range of genres, from Hollywood classics and new world cinema, to horror, science fiction, documentary and animation.

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Film studies courses

Focus your studies on film and the world of cinema, or combine these with another interest by choosing a joint honours degree.

Undergraduate courses

  • BA

    Film and English

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  • BA

    Film and English with Year Abroad

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  • BA

    Film and History

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    Film and History with Year Abroad

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  • BA

    Film Studies

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    Film Studies with Year Abroad

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    P304
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Shelley Cobb
Professor of Film & Feminist Media Studies
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I am a feminist film and media studies scholar with particular interests in women filmmakers, equality and diversity in the film and television industries, celebrity culture, adaptation, and reception discourses.
Huw Jones
Associate Professor
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I'm interested in British and European films which travel across borders: what themes, stories, and stars these films focus on, who watches them and why, and how they're produced, funded and distributed.
Kevin Donnelly
Professor of Film & Film Music
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I am primarily a theorist and historian of film music and film sound, but with a strong interdisciplinary interest in aesthetics and theory, as well as culture beyond film.

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