BA (Hons) English and Film Studies

Year One

In year 1, through a series of core modules, you will be introduced to the field of literary and cultural theory and literary narrative in relation to fiction and the novel. Alongside this you will study the history of cinema from its origins to the present day. You will also examine a range of critical approaches to film as well as investigating the world’s most powerful film industry: Hollywood.

Semester 1

Critical Approaches to Film

Film Form, Film Meaning

Narrative, Fiction and the Novel

Semester 2

Classical Hollywood Cinema

Popular Fictions

Theory into Practice

Year Two

During the first part of your second year you will extend your basic knowledge and understanding of literature and cinema through core modules that focus on areas such as the Romantic period, British cinema and contemporary Hollywood. Following on from these, you will begin to focus your studies on the areas you find most interesting by taking a number of module options that reflect the expertise of Salford’s teaching staff.

Semester 1

British Cinema

Contemporary American Cinema

The Romantic Period

Semester 2

Victorian Literature

Choose from one English and one Film module from the following:

Film Options

Comedy and British Cinema

Film Journalism

Genre and Beyond

Cinema and Psychoanalysis

English Options

Creative Writing

Dickens

Female Gothic

Utopias and Dystopias

Year Three

The final year of the programme offers a range of options from which you can choose to specialise. Film options are completed in the first semester, while the second semester focuses on English

Semester One

Choose three modules from the following:

    

Regional Filmmaking

Film Distribution and Exhibition

British Television Drama

Film and Theory

Semester 2

Choose three modules from the following:

Twentieth Century British Working Class Novel

Twenty First Century Women’s Fiction

Women Behaving Badly

Writing Ireland

Representing the Holocaust