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MLitt European Cinema
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Academic title
MLitt European Cinema
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Course description
MLitt: 12 months full-time; 24 months part-time
This interdisciplinary programme provides a unique emphasis on the evolution of the European theory and practice of cinema and is designed to meet the needs of graduate students from the areas of modern languages, film and television studies, and English literature, intending to pursue research on film and its relationship to 20th century cultural studies. The programme is supported by library holdings in film studies and critical theory across the disciplines of modern languages, film and television studies, and English literature, as well as by the activities (seminars, invited speakers, conferences) of the Centre for Screen Studies. One-day educational events, conferences, screenings and meetings with European filmmakers will be arranged as part of a special agreement with the Glasgow Film Theatre which hosts a range of annual film festivals dedicated to European cinemas.
Content
The programme consists of a combination of taught courses, guided study and independent research work leading to the completion of a dissertation. During the first half of the programme you are asked to make two seminar presentations and to submit an essay, which can be a more elaborate version of a seminar presentation. The second half of the programme consists of a range of optional taught courses, offering you the possibility to specialise further and undertake in-depth study of two areas of your choice.
Semester 1: core courses
The first part of the programme introduces you to a range of theoretical approaches to film and provides you with an overview of the main strands in the history of European cinema. The first introductory session is followed by nine weekly courses on the following topics:
* Early film theory and practice
* European film and the Hollywood classical cinema
* Theories of authorship
* Semiotic approaches to film
* Structuralist approaches
* Postmodernism and cinema
* Feminist theory
* Film and visual culture
* Film production and digital technology.
Semester 2: optional courses
You are required to choose three of the following options:
* Dada and surrealist films
* German expressionist cinema and beyond
* Classic French cinema
* Czech, Polish and Russian filmmakers
* Italian neo-realism and beyond
* Spanish cinema
* British cinema
* The documentary tradition.
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