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BA Film Studies First year


Introduction to Film Studies Introduction to Film Production


The Enlightenment One option


Second year Filmmaking Approaches to Text Two film options


Third year Three film options One film, literature or outside option


BA Film Studies and Literature


First year


Introduction to Film Studies Introduction to Literature The Enlightenment One outside option


Second year Narrative and Film Approaches to Text Versions of Modernity or United States Literature, 1850-1950


One film option


Third year Two film options Two literature options


BA Film and Creative Writing


First year


Introduction to Film Studies Introduction to Film Production


Introduction to Literature Creative Writing Skills Close Reading Skills


Second year Filmmaking Approaches to Text


Introduction to Screenwriting One film or literature option


Third year One creative writing option One literature option Two film options


Third-year project also available as an option.


For other joint courses with film studies, see American Studies, History, History of Art and Philosophy entries.


This information is a guide to course content and is subject to review on an annual basis.


For your practical filmmaking, you will be instructed by staff in the University’s Media Centre and by industry practitioners at Signals Media Arts. You will also have the opportunity of working on a script as part of your third-year independent study.


BA Film Studies and History of Art This course allows you to combine different approaches to the study of visual media. The particular strength of art history at Essex in the modern period, extends logically to the inclusion of film as a partner discipline. Film, in the form of video and installation art, has made enormous inroads into the art world, so that the study of the visual arts and cinema together has become more and more crucial and relevant in recent times. For further details, see History of Art.


BA History with Film Studies This course gives you the opportunity to examine historical development through the medium of film, studying documentary and newsreel footage alongside representations of historical events in fiction film as evidential source materials. By combining the study of history with film, you learn how history – its


documentation and study – has changed since the advent of the moving pictures. This course allows you to experience both disciplines, and graduate with a strong competence in history and film studies. For further details, see History.


BA American (United States) Studies with Film This multidisciplinary course will enable you to assess American contributions to our understanding of political, historical, social and cultural perspectives of the world. You will combine studies of the US with a number of options in film studies offered by the Departments of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, Art History and Theory, and History. You will also have an opportunity to extend your experiences further through a period of study at an American university, and will write a final-year dissertation. The course is also available as a three-year programme. For further details, see American (US) Studies.


BA Philosophy and Film This course gives equal weight to both disciplines. We are the UK’s leading university for continental philosophy, the


very field in which many of the philosophical debates on film originated. By engaging with the philosophical content of films and interpreting a range of cinematic genres and traditions, you will develop the ability to analyse films and a number of ‘applied’ skills such as utilising philosophy in aesthetic and cultural inquiry, as well as in issues of everyday moral and public life. For further details, see Philosophy.


First-year modules Introduction to Film Studies will help you to acquire a basic literacy in ‘reading’ film images, enabling you to analyse films in their aesthetic, social and political implications. You will also gain an overview of developments in film history.


Introduction to Film Production* is designed to provide basic practical skills required for work in media production, this module allows you to translate your academic knowledge into a practical context.


* Open to BA Film Studies and BA Film and Creative Writing students only


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