MA Film and Screen Studies

at University of Exeter

You will be engaging with a broad range of topics, drawing on our strengths in teaching and research across film theory and philosophy, film history and archival studies, transnational and world cinemas, feminist, queer and gender studies. A wide choice of optional modules will enable you to tailor your programme to your research or career interests.
 

The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum provides a unique opportunity to gain research and curatorial expertise. Our research-led taught modules will prepare you to develop an MA dissertation project catering to your research interests. You will also have the opportunity to design a project embedded in the material cultures of film and screen studies linked to the distinctive collections of The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum. You will be supported by a dissertation supervisor, workshop lectures and a dissertation conference.
 

You will be joining a vibrant research community through The Exeter Screen Studies Centre.
 

The modules we outline here provide examples of what you can expect to learn on this degree course based on recent academic teaching. The precise modules available to you in future years may vary depending on staff availability and research interests, new topics of study, timetabling and student demand.

Compulsory modules

• Dissertation    
   

Optional modules

• Archival Encounters: Material Film Histories
• Latin American Cinema: Race, Nation and Representation
• Film Theory: Current Debates
• Sense, Sensation and Cinema
• Hearing Film: Film Sound and Music
• Expanding Queerness: Critical Debates in Theory, Literature, Film and Television
• Stars, Stardom and Celebrity From the Classical Era to the Contemporary
• World Cinema / World Literature
• Writing for the Screen

Normally a 2:1 Honours degree, or international equivalent in a related discipline.

English Language Requirements
 

• IELTS

  Overall score 6.5. No less than 6.0 in any section.
   

• TOEFL

  Overall score 90 with minimum scores of 21 for writing, 21 for listening, 22 for reading and 23 for speaking.

UK fees per year:
£9,500 full-time; £4,750 part-time
 

International fees per year:
£20,000 full-time; £10,000 part-time

You will gain valuable transferable skills in advanced research, critical thinking, written and verbal communication, and project management. Unique opportunities to go behind the scenes in the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum and Digital Humanities Lab will develop your practical skills in screen media archiving, cataloguing, and curation. The international focus of taught materials will enable you to enhance your intercultural competencies, skills that are invaluable in shaping future global citizens and which are becoming more and more attractive to employers.
 

Career paths

The programme set students up to pursue either doctoral research in film, media, screen and television studies or routes into employment by offering sought-after transferable skills and knowledge well suited to working in a range of professional destinations. An MA in Film and Screen Studies is academically relevant to careers in the arts and media, leading to employment in arts administration, screen and media industries, communications, archiving, film and media research, cultural heritage, journalism, film festival management, lecturing, and teaching.