Entry requirements: Normally a first or second-class Honours degree in Film Studies or another cognate subject or professional experience in the area of study
Full-time: 1 year
Part-time: 2 years
Programme Leader: Dr Leighton Grist
Telephone +44 (0) 1962 827147
Email Leighton.Grist@winchester.ac.uk
If English is not your first language: IELTS 6.5 (including 6.5 in academic writing) or a TOEFL score of 575 (paper-based) or 232 (computer-based) or equivalent
Start dates: September and January
Application process: UKPASS (full-time applicants only) or Direct Entry Application Form (part-time applicants only)
Implicit to the programme is an embrace of the diversity of film as an aesthetic, material and (predominantly) commercial object, of the diverse perspectives available to the
study of film and of how both have been developed, whether in terms of causality, difference, mutual generation, opposition and/or contestation.
The programme curriculum covers areas including film history; changes in film form and style, whether within specific cinematic institutions (for example, Hollywood or the avant-garde) or across them; different production practices and the differential development and use of new technologies; issues of genre, nation, identity and authorship; and the relation of film to its wider material context, be the focus cultural, sub-cultural, political, regulatory or epistemological.
Core modules include:
• MA Film: Theory and Criticism
• Postgraduate Seminar
• Research Methods
Optional modules include:
• Art Cinema/Avant-garde Cinema
• Cultures of Third Cinema
• Fairytale and Gothic Horror
• Fiction and Film
• Genre and National Cinema
• New Technologies and Culture
• Space and Place: A Landscape of British Cinema
• Scorsese and Schrader
Classes predominantly centre upon a seminar format, which provides a space facilitating the introduction and discussion of critical frameworks, theoretical concepts, ideas, issues and interpretations.
The standard assessment for each module is a seminar presentation and a 4,000- word essay. Assessment for the introductory module comprises a seminar presentation, a 1,500-word critical exercise (30 per cent) and a 2,500-word essay (70 per cent). Assessment for Research Methods involves a draft dissertation proposal. There are no examinations.
Dissertation
With full tutorial support, students complete a dissertation of 15,000 to 20,000 words. A substantial piece of independent research, the dissertation must be on a topic within film studies, but it does not have to focus on taught areas.
The programme is specifically of benefit to those seeking to pursue a career in further or higher education and to those involved in arts, media or cultural work.