Program Overview

MA Film & Screen Studies

Overview

The MA Film & Screen Studies is a theory-led course that explores the cultural evolution of the moving image through the historical avant-garde, cinematic technology and culture, in both mainstream and underground filmmaking, to then contextualise contemporary and emerging screen cultures.

Why Study MA Film & Screen Studies at Goldsmiths

• Explore film philosophy, find out how images create meaning in experimental modes, and discover how we can think through the moving image on this eclectic Masters.
• Engage deeply with philosophical approaches to film, where moving images represent, reflect and refract established ideas, but also generate a form of non-verbal thinking of their own.
• Study in one of the top Media, Communications and Cultural Studies departments globally, ranked second in the UK for 'world-leading or internationally excellent' research (REF, 2021) and 16th in the world (third in the UK) in the 2024 QS World Rankings by Subject.

Length

• 1 year full-time or 2 years part-time

Entry Requirements

• You should have (or expect to be awarded) an undergraduate degree of at least upper second class standard in a relevant/related subject.
• You might also be considered if you aren’t a graduate or your degree is in an unrelated field, but have relevant experience and can show that you have the ability to work at postgraduate level.

Fees

• Home - full-time: £11250
• Home - part-time: £5625
• International - full-time: £22000

Department

• Media, Communications and Cultural Studies

What You'll Study

Moving Image Studies Pathway

• Explore new critical approaches that address the currency of moving image media in today's global context – their aesthetics, technology and politics.
• Extend the boundaries for studying moving images by considering a wider range of media and introducing students to a wider range of approaches for investigating moving images' past and present.

Media Arts Pathway

• Explore emerging experimental practices of image making and criticism.
• Study the most intense and extreme forms of media, experimental media arts, test to breaking point our established ideas and practices.

Compulsory Modules

• Politics of the Audiovisual (Postgraduate)
• Experimental Media (15 credits)

Optional Modules

• We offer a wide range of optional modules each year. For more information, please refer to our list of Media modules that have been available in previous years.

Intercollegiate Options

• Students can also take one option from the MA Film & Media programmes at other University of London colleges.

Assessment

• The MA is assessed primarily through coursework essays and written projects.
• Practical modules may require audiovisual elements to be submitted.
• It will also include a dissertation of approximately 12,000 words.

Research

• Theoretical analysis and practical creations
• Research culture in the Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies is unique in that it draws on and brings together different disciplinary and intellectual traditions, approaches and perspectives rooted in the humanities and the social sciences, in theoretical analysis and practical creations, in critical readings and performance.

Careers

• Our graduates go on to work in areas such as programming and curating, film and video distribution, and film and television criticism, but many also create their own careers.
• Approximately 20% of our graduates pursue PhD degrees.

Staff

• Dr Dan Strutt
• Dr Richard MacDonald
• Dr Michael N Goddard

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