Film Studies

Course summary

Film Studies is designed to deepen your understanding, appreciation and enjoyment of film. You will study cinema as a medium, as an art form and as a social and economic institution. You will engage with a wide variety of films, developing skills of observation, critical analysis and personal reflection. The course will enable you to develop your interest in and appreciation of cinema through a study of: - The ‘language’ of film and the process of ‘reading’ a film - How films create meaning and produce both intellectual and emotional responses - The film industry as producers and audiences as consumers - The messages, values and representations made in film, particularly in British and American cinema - World cinema and its cultural diversity - Significant directors, producers and their films