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| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 6,054 - ≈ € 13,937 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Edinburgh / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of The University of Edinburgh
This programme aims to expand the students’ understanding and knowledge of the theory, aesthetics and practice of film.
What makes it distinctive is its focus on art and auteur film combined with a comparative study of mainstream cinema.
The course explores film's relation to other arts and engages with various forms of moving image culture and digital media.
It aims to introduce students to Scotland’s lively film culture allowing them to network within their field.
Learning Outcomes The programme is designed to make students familiar with key concepts and debates in the field of film and media studies, and to provide them with analytical and critical tools.
It is an excellent place to start developing your film interests and building your CV with a view to a career in academia or in any film and media-related fields.
Contents
The curriculum combines a core course and a research methods course with 2 option courses selected from the list indicated below.
- In the first term, students normally attend:
An intensive Research Methods course (first week of term)
Two 2-hour seminars weekly: one seminar in Film Theory and Criticism and one in the option chosen. Classes are supplemented with screenings.
- In the second term:
Two 2-hour seminars weekly: one seminar in Film Theory and Criticism and one in the second option chosen. Students also attend Research Skills seminars, two hours a week for 5 weeks.
In addition, students will receive regular supervision during the period in which they research and start to write their dissertation.
Students may ask authorisation to audit courses in addition to compulsory courses.
Core Course
The compulsory core course in Film Theory and Criticism extends over the first and second semesters and introduces students to a number of the most influential theories of film that have emerged since the invention of the medium.
Option Courses
Two option courses are chosen from the following list (please note that most but not all options will be available in any given year) Further option courses are offered by IMES, Chinese Studies, Translation Studies, Theatre Studies, Divinity, Cultural Studies, History of Arts.
* Early European Cinema: From the Cinematograph of the Lumières to Eisenstein's Montage Technique
* Italian Cinema: Neorealism and its Modulations (Visconti, Rossellini and De Sica, Fellini, Bertolluci, Moretti and Benigni)
* British and Irish Cinema: Film Style and the Cinematic City (Powell, Reed, Loset and Roeg, Douglas, Loach, Greenaway and Jarman)
* French Cinema: The Nouvelle Vague and Contemporary Trends (Truffaut, Godard, Varda, Chabrol, Beineix, Besson, Carax, Noé, Dumont, Denis and Breillat amongst others)
* New German Cinema: Concepts and Film Style (looking at the films of Kluge, Straub, Reitz, Fassbinder, Herzog and Wenders)
* Cinema Auteurs 1 and 2 (Looking at the work of a selection of directors - Vigo, Renoir, Welles, Hitchcock, Ozu, Marker, Tarkovski, Wajda, Kaurismaki, Lynch, von Trier, Kar-Wai, Angelopoulos
* Cinema: Time, Space, Memory - based on the study of a selection of films (Resnais' Hiroshima and Last Year in Marienbad to Kar-Wai's In the Mood for Love, Lynch's Mulholland Drive and Sokurov'sThe Russian Ark...)
* Cinematic Bodies
* Film and the other arts
* Avant-Garde Film
* Screening the past: History in Hollywood and European cinemas Include subsection (description handbook)
* World Cinema: Revisions and Replacements
* Gender, Revolution and Modernity in Chinese Cinema
* Cinemas of the Midldle East
* Constructing Reality (involves the making of a 4mn documentary)
* Sound and Fixed Media (an in-depth exploration of sound in various audio and audio-visual media including film and animation film)
* Cinemas of the Middle East
Dissertation A dissertation of approximately 15000 words for MSc candidates, on a topic to be approved by the Convener of the course.
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
Admission is open to students with a good Honours degree (or equivalent) in any relevant area of studies.Multidisciplinary and comparative approaches are key aspects of film studies and we therefore welcome students coming from other areas of study than film (see `applying´).
Language Requirement
Students whose first language is not English are required to take one of the recognised English tests, such as the British Council IELTS test or the TOEFL. Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency is also accepted. IELTS total of 7.0 with not less than 6.0 in any one section. TOEFL total of 600 with 5.0 in the test of written English (250 in the computer based test with 5.0 in the TWE section). Cambridge Proficiency Test B.
Language Proficiency
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade A (Score: 80) |
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