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Film and Television: Theory, Culture and Industry MA

University of Westminster
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Watford Rd, Harrow, HA1 3, London
Tel.+44 (0) 20 7911 5000

Current Status: Terminato
Course Type: Master Level:
Available Financing:
Tuition: 775 £ Duration y/mm: 0/24
Places Available: Credits:
Application Deadline: 15/09/2017 Admissions:
Start Date: 15/09/2017 End Date: 20/08/2018

Description

Our innovative MA in Film and Television builds on its prestigious heritage as the longest running degree programme of its kind in the UK. We aim to equip you with wide-ranging skills, knowledge and critical awareness to meet your career aspirations in sectors in which moving images play a central role. Our curriculum incorporates an exciting variety of learning and teaching activities designed to foster your capacity for researching and rigorously analysing different aspects of film, television and moving images. You will have the opportunity to develop key skills for communicating about and with moving images across a range of contexts and platforms. You can choose to have a broad-based learning experience in film, television and moving image, or you can specialise in moving image curation and screenwriting via our suggested pathways.

The core teaching team consists of members of the University’s Westminster School of Media, Arts and Design. The course has close links with the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM), the leading research centre in the UK for arts and design, whose members include internationally renowned filmmakers, film and television theorists and historians, and moving image artists and curators.
We combine research-enhanced teaching with classes delivered by film and television industry and moving image art professionals, in order to make sure that you develop skill sets and the full range of critical awareness that are in demand and to deliver an exciting learning experience for you.

Objectives

The course combines core and optional taught modules. The design and delivery of our taught modules draw on CREAM’s research excellence in documentary, Asian and European cinema, moving image curation, and television history.
The coursework requirements for some modules are research essays or a combination of research essays and research-informed blog posts and presentations. Other modules require a broad range of research-informed professional modes of writing such as a screenplay treatment, a curatorial proposal or an exhibition review. You will also undertake a substantial piece of independent research as a major part of your MA studies.

In order to provide you with the flexibility to undertake a piece of independent research suited to your career aspiration, the final project module offers you the choice between writing a traditional dissertation or completing a theoretically-informed professional project such as a curating a film programme, writing and producing a series of themed blog posts, or writing a long-form screenplay.

Contents

Part-time students normally complete the programme in two years. In the first year you will take four taught modules. In the second year you will take two taught modules and the year-long Final Project module.

Our core and optional taught modules encourage you to explore various approaches to film, television and moving image in the UK, Asia and Europe. You will have the chance to research a wide range of issues in aesthetics, production, distribution, exhibition and marketing, from mainstream commercial productions to experimental and independent cinema and artists’ moving image. Some modules emphasise contemporary issues while others explore artistic, cultural and industrial contexts and histories, and the development of film, television and moving image theories.

We are offering the following modules in 2016-17:

Core modules

  • Key Concepts in Film, Television and Moving Image
  • Contemporary Issues in Moving Image and Screen Studies
  • Final Project

Optional modules

  • Television Art: Aesthetics and Quality
  • Documentary Aesthetics, Sites and Spectatorship
  • Cinema Distribution and Exhibition
  • Film Programming and Moving Image Curation
  • Modern and Contemporary European Cinema
  • Researching Histories in Asian Cinema
  • Introduction to Scriptwriting
  • Long-form Screenplay Preparation and Short Documents

Requirements

In order to gain admission to the course you will need a good undergraduate degree in a related discipline from a recognised university. In exceptional circumstances we may consider candidates with relevant work experience and a lower undergraduate degree qualification. We welcome applications from mature candidates with a professional background in film, television, media, education, arts administration, or other related professional fields. We accept candidates from a range of related disciplines, and your undergraduate degree does not necessarily have to be in film or television studies.

The course requires a high standard of written and spoken English. If English is not your first language, or your secondary education was not conducted in English, you will need to certify that you have achieved an overall IELTS grade of at least 6.5, with no individual score in reading, writing, speaking and listening to English below 6.0. If you have not previously studied in English, we strongly recommend that you enrol in the University’s pre-sessional English courses.

Where appropriate we may conduct telephone or Skype interviews before offers of admission are made. During the interview we will be looking for evidence of interest in and capacity to communicate about film, television or other forms of moving image, as well as analytical skills and a commitment to post-graduate study.

Career Prospects

Our graduates have found employment in small- and large-scale film and television companies as filmmakers, producers, distributors, and exhibitors. Others have gone on to organise film festivals, or to work in film-related magazines and journals as well as in international arts and culture sectors.
Some of our recent graduates have gone on to pursue academic careers as researchers or doctoral students at the University of Westminster and elsewhere. As the UK’s longest-running postgraduate programme in film and television several of our alumni are pioneers of the discipline of film and television studies

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