Bachelor of Arts (Honours) - Film Studies (W620)

Film and television don't just shape culture: they create it. This unique 360˚ approach to cinema allows students to understand film from every angle: from stars to directors, historical origins to contemporary economics, socio-political contexts, to aesthetic achievements and from the dynamics of screenplays to the global cultures that shape production, reception and film form itself. Students will come away from the course speaking confidently about concepts and ideas, with the ability to deftly critique them, too – ideal skills for the communication industries, creative arts and beyond.

Taking this approach, students will study film and television from Hollywood and Europe, Bollywood, Asia and Latin America alongside a range of more experimental non-narrative film, television and digital media forms. Taught in partnership with the film experts in Royal Holloway’s School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, there is particular emphasis on a diverse range of European cinema.

Students will get a comprehensive grounding in the history and theory of moving image media, including the opportunity to undertake courses in screenwriting. After a grounding in the key theoretical and historical aspects of film in the first year, students can go on to explore those topics that intrigue them and capture their attention in film and television’s rich artistic, social and political traditions.

Students will work with world-leading experts in European and World cinema, and award-winning practitioners from across the media industry and thrive on the creative campus – Royal Holloway has regular industry visitors and close contact with other arts departments and student societies.

• Learn the history and theory of moving image media. • Watch and analyse films from around the world. • Study European cinema in the School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures • Work with world-leading and award-winning practitioners from across the media industry. • Explore film’s artistic, social and political traditions.