Course description
The MA programme in film and media studies is an academic course that pursues advanced analysis of film and other media. It assumes that you will have attained a degree of expertise before starting and will aim to deal with the familiar, as well as the unfamiliar, in a more advanced theoretical, historical, cultural and practical fashion.
This MA takes advantage of the University’s expertise in film and media studies and its concentration of members of staff publishing material about film and media. This cross-disciplinary course will feature a wide range of options, including Modes of Critical and Creative Research, America on Film, Stanley Kubrick: Auteur, Composing Film Music, E-Publishing, East Asian Media and Culture, Salvation in Celluloid: Filming the Transcendent, Studying Film Music, Visions of the City in French Cinema.
The Film and Media Studies MA at Bangor is distinctive in that it not only provides a wide range of modules but it also gives students a free choice of topics, drawing upon the expertise available within the College of Arts and Humanities. It aims to help you develop your intellectual interests, while learning the disciplines involved in advanced film and media research. A proportion of the course can be delivered through weekly one-to-one supervisions.
The Film and Media Studies Master’s degree has two parts. The first consists of Approaches to Film and Media Studies together with three other modules of your choice. Part One must be successfully completed before proceeding to the second part, the dissertation. In certain circumstances, you may be eligible for a Diploma or Certificate if you are unable to proceed to part two. The dissertation is a substantial piece of scholarly research, on a subject of your own choice, chosen and discussed in detail with a lecturer in the College of Arts and Humanities.
