Film Studies

Course summary

This course will appeal to those who wish to develop a knowledge and understanding of: • A diverse range of films, including documentaries, films from the silent era, experimental films, and short film • The significance of film and film practice in national, global, and historical contexts • Film and its key contexts (including social, cultural, political, historical, and technological) • How films generate meanings and responses • Film as an aesthetic medium • The different ways in which spectators respond to the film The analysis skills developed offer key skills that complement all essay-based subjects. The art of analyzing the moving image and learning the language pertinent to it extremely crosses over well with those subjects that demand close study of texts, knowledge of context, case study information, and an awareness of how texts are received. It pairs particularly well with any English strand, humanities, and psychology.