Graduate Studies

MPhil in Screen Media and Cultures

 

The MPhil in Screen Media and Cultures course has a designated webpage.

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Overview information about this course:

Admissions Enquiries

Please contact Mrs Ulrike Balser at the Faculty Graduate Studies Office for all admissions enquiries.

Critical Approaches of the course:

The aim of this course is to introduce students from a wide variety of academic backgrounds to the basic ideas, methods, and historiographical concerns which have shaped study of screen media as it is today.The course focus will be at once on the medium-specific 'language' of the filmic or televisual 'text', and on a broader understanding of the cultures in which screen media are embedded, and which they have done their part to shape. Classes have been organised in such a way as to reflect this emphasis on ideas and methods; but students are expected to develop a broad knowledge of the history of screen media from 1895 to the present.

It is strongly recommended that before taking the course students familiarise themselves with the following:

 

David Bordwell, On the History of Film Style (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997)

Leo Braudy and M. Cohen, eds., Film Theory and Criticism 5th ed. (Oxford: OUP, 1999)

Tony Bennett et al., eds., Popular Television and Film: A Reader (London: BFI, 1981)

John Corner, Critical Ideas in Television Studies (Oxford: OUP, 1999)

John Hill and Martin McLoone, eds., Big Picture, Small Screen: The Relations between Film and Television (Luton: Libbey, 1996)

Martin Rieser and Andrea Zapp (eds). New Screen Media: Cinema/Art/Media. (London: BFI, 2002)