Course content

The course combines core and optional taught modules. The design and delivery of our taught modules draw on CREAM’s research excellence in documentary, Asian and European cinema, moving image curation, and television history. The coursework requirements for some modules are research essays or a combination of research essays and research-informed blog posts and presentations. Other modules require a broad range of research-informed professional modes of writing such as a screenplay treatment, a curatorial proposal or an exhibition review. You will also undertake a substantial piece of independent research as a major part of your MA studies. In order to provide you with the flexibility to undertake a piece of independent research suited to your career aspiration, the final project module offers you the choice between writing a traditional dissertation or completing a theoretically-informed professional project such as a curating a film programme, writing and producing a series of themed blog posts, or writing a long-form screenplay.

Modules

All full-time students must take six taught modules. In each semester you will take one core module and two optional modules. You will also take the year-long Final Project module.

Our core and optional taught modules encourage you to explore various approaches to film, television and moving image in the UK, Asia and Europe. You will have the chance to research a wide range of issues in aesthetics, production, distribution, exhibition and marketing, from mainstream commercial productions to experimental and independent cinema and artists’ moving image. Some modules emphasise contemporary issues while others explore artistic, cultural and industrial contexts and histories, and the development of film, television and moving image theories. 

We are offering the following modules in 2016-17.

Core modules

Key Concepts in Film, Television and Moving Image
Contemporary Issues in Moving Image and Screen Studies
Final Project
Optional modules

Television Art: Aesthetics and Quality
Documentary Aesthetics, Sites and Spectatorship
Cinema Distribution and Exhibition
Film Programming and Moving Image Curation
Modern and Contemporary European Cinema
Researching Histories in Asian Cinema
Introduction to Scriptwriting
Long-form Screenplay Preparation and Short Documents