BA Film and English

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Course Overview

This integrated Film and English degree explores the art of storytelling across both literature and cinema, from classic poetry and novels to Hollywood blockbusters and global films. You will learn to analyze these works through diverse critical lenses, including performance, philosophy, and social context. The course offers unique creative opportunities, from scriptwriting workshops to submitting your own work to a film festival, all within a vibrant academic community.

Key Program Highlights

  • Analyze a wide range of cinema, from film noir and horror to documentary and animation
  • Study global literature and its adaptation to film, from Jane Austen to contemporary works
  • Participate in creative writing workshops and explore scriptwriting and narrative non-fiction
  • Gain practical experience by submitting original work to a yearly student film festival
  • Access unique resources like the Chawton House Library and a summer school in Seoul, South Korea

Requirements

The requirements may vary based on your selected study options.





















Modules

  • Introduction to Film 1: Form, Style and Analysis
  • Introduction to Film II: European Cinema
  • Poetic Language
  • The Novel
  • Literary Transformations
  • The Invention of English Literature: Medieval to Early Modern
  • Theory & Criticism
  • World Dramas
  • Early and Silent Cinema, 1895-1929
  • The Worlding of English Literature
  • Eve and the Angels: Love, War, and the End of Epic in Milton's Paradise Lost
  • Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art
  • African Freedoms and The Novel
  • Animation: Technology, Culture and Industry
  • Audiences: Theories, Methods, Contexts
  • Brief Encounters: Writing Short Stories
  • Contemporary British Cinema
  • Corpus Linguistics: Working with large-scale text data
  • Dark Streets and Strange Detours: Film Noir in Context
  • Data Environmentalism
  • Data, Culture, and Justice
  • Decolonising Modernity
  • Digital Media and The World of Work
  • Digital Media: Professional Practice
  • Film, Realism and Reality: representing the world, from revolution to the everyday
  • Ghosts on Screen
  • Global Cinemas
  • Global Hip Hop
  • Great Writers Steal: Creative Writing and Critical Thinking
  • How the Arts Work: A Practical Introduction to Cultural Economics
  • Humanities and Professional Practice
  • Puzzles about Art and Literature
  • Queens, Devils and Players in Early Modern England
  • Queering the Digital
  • Retail Therapy: A journey through the cultural history of shopping
  • Revolutions in English Literature
  • Romantics and Victorians
  • Songs of the Earth: Landscapes and Environments of Early Medieval England
  • Speech Acts
  • Sweatshops, Sex workers, and Asylum Seekers: World Literature and Visual Culture after Globalisation
  • Television Studies: Key Debates
  • The Early Modern Body
  • The Life and Afterlife of the Vikings
  • Vienna and Berlin: Society, Politics and Culture from 1890 to the Present
  • Women and Hollywood
  • Women, Writing and the Canon, 1770-1900
  • Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art
  • American Cinema Since 1965
  • American Gothic
  • Animal Forms: poetry and the non-human
  • Arthurian Worlds
  • Authoring Austen: Writing, Reception and Adaptation
  • Creative Writing in Schools
  • Crime TV: Technologies of Detection
  • Data Environmentalism
  • Data, Culture, and Justice
  • English Dissertation
  • Environmental Cinema and Media
  • Eve and the Angels: Love, War, and the End of Epic in Milton's Paradise Lost
  • Fantasy Film and Fiction
  • Film Dissertation
  • Framing the Past:Stardom, History and Heritage in the Cinema
  • German-Jewish Writing Across the Twentieth Century
  • Global Hip Hop
  • Holocaust Literature
  • Horror on Film
  • How the Arts Work: A Practical Introduction to Cultural Economics
  • International Film Industry: Issues and Debates
  • Language and the City
  • Music in Film and Television
  • Popular Global Screen Cultures
  • Queering the Digital
  • Shakespeare Then and Now
  • Songs of the Earth: Landscapes and Environments of Early Medieval England
  • Sounding the Museum
  • Telling True Stories: Narrative Non-Fiction
  • The Life and Afterlife of the Vikings
  • Utopias and Dystopias in Literature and Culture
  • Video Games in Context
  • Writing Queerness
  • Writing the Novel
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Tuition fee
Apply by
Start date
Duration
Campus
Mode of study
Fees and deadlines depend on the selected options. Fees and currency conversion are approximate.
Offer response
4 - 6 weeks after your application is submitted