English and Film

Our English and Film degree explores the richness of literature and film in their critical and creative contexts. You will learn about both art forms individually as well as examining the relationship between them.

As part of your English modules, you will build your core skills in critical and creative thinking, equipping you with the tools you need to analyse a range of literary texts. You will also gain an appreciation of how literature reflects the social and historical contexts in which it was written.

Alongside your study of literature, you will consider the cultural and creative impact of film. From exploring developments in American and British cinema, you will also have the opportunity to examine cinema from across Europe, Latin America, Asia, and beyond, evaluating the role of cinema as a major entertainment industry as well as thinking about film as a political and socio-cultural property practice along the way.

You will:

• Study a wide range of literature and film from around the world

• Develop an understanding of the relationship between texts and their social and historical contexts

• Discover how cinema has become a significant part of international culture

Course Modules

Year one
During your first year, you will complete five modules:

• Critical Approaches to Film

• Popular Fictions

• Film Form, Film Meaning

• Classical Hollywood Cinema

• Discovering Literature

Year two
During your second year, you will complete one core module:

• British Cinema

You will also choose two Film modules and three English modules from the following indicative list (the top four modules are Film options):

• Film Journalism

• Cinema Asia

• Comedy and British Cinema

• Contemporary American Cinema

• The Romantic Period: the Sublime and the Gothic

• Analysing Media Texts

• Literature, Adaptation and the Screen

• Victorian Literature: Progress and Panic

• 21st Century Women’s Writing

• The Female Gothic

• Introduction to Screenwriting

• Environmental Nightmares, World Futures

Year three
During your third year, you will complete one core module:

• Postmodernism

You will also choose three Film and two English options from the following indicative list:

• Teaching Masterclass

• Sequential Art (Comics and Graphic Novels)

• Hollywood Masculinities

• Film Programming and Curating for Cinemas and Festivals

• Alternative, Independent and Marginal Film

• Film and Theory

• British Theatre Post-1950

• Biography: Tradition and Innovation

• Health Communication

• Post/Colonial African Literature

• Alternative Ulster

• Dissertation

You will be assessed through a variety of methods including traditional essays, presentations, written analyses and longer pieces based on your own research interests.