Film Studies

Course summary

Many consider film to be the main cultural innovation of the 20th century and a major art form of the last hundred years. Those who study it characteristically bring with them a high degree of enthusiasm and excitement for what is a powerful and culturally significant medium, inspiring a range of responses from the emotional to the reflective. A level Film Studies makes an important contribution to the curriculum, oering the opportunity to investigate how film works both as a powerful agent of representation and as an aesthetic medium.