MA/MS in Media Studies: Film Studies

The one-year track offers a theoretically grounded engagement with film studies and visual culture, situated within a media studies department that brings together scholars working across a range of media and theoretical perspectives. Film is treated as a multi-faceted phenomenon with an active, changing role in today's digital media culture, through core courses covering media archaeology, film-philosophy, and audiovisual practices at the national, transnational and global level. Research seminars address specialised topics that include neuro-aesthetics, affect, the body, fashion, gender and identity, along with approaches drawn from classical film theory and multimodal metaphor, and studies of the city as a cinematic subject. The track is distinct from a production-focused master's, concentrating instead on critical and theoretical study.