Film Studies

Course summary

Cinema is not only entertainment: it’s the art and cultural product of our time. For anyone passionate about history, texts and images – and how to interpret them – film studies is the ideal course. It offers you specialist preparation for jobs in the cinema and media industries, as well as more general training in essential arts graduate skills, from constructing an argument to practical criticism. Learners will develop an appreciation of a variety of film forms and deepen their understanding of critical approaches to cinema. Films Studied over the two-year course include: • This is England (Meadows, 2006) • Pan’s Labyrinth (Del Toro, 2006) • Taxi Tehran (Panahi, 2015) ] • Amy (Kapadia, 2015) # • Fallen Angels (Wong Kar-wai, 1994) • Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958) • Blade Runner (Scott, 1982) • No Country for Old Men (Cohen Bros, 2007) • Winter’s Bone (Granik, 2010) • Fish Tank (Arnold, 2009)