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Film Studies Offer-Holder Visit Day 2018 Dr Debra Ramsay
Film Studies Staff
• Dr Ranita Chatterjee • Dr Danielle Hipkins
• Professor Sally Faulkner • Professor Joe Kember
• Dr Angus Finney • Dr James Lyons
• Dr Felicity Gee • Dr Benedict Morrison
• Dr Fiona Handyside • Dr Debra Ramsay
• Dr Helen Hanson • Dr Lisa Stead
• Professor William Higbee • Professor Linda Ruth Williams
• www.exeter.ac.uk/humanities/film
Recent Staff Publications and Projects
• www.exeter.ac.uk/humanities/film
How will I study?
10 hours/week tutor time in Year One
All of our staff teach
• Lectures (20-220 students)
• Seminars (8-16 students)
• Workshops (12-20 students)
• Study Groups (6-9 students)
• Tutorials (1 to 1 sessions)
• Film screenings
(typically 2 per week, per module)
• www.exeter.ac.uk/humanities/film
Depth and Breadth
• Film as culture, as industry and as global
phenomenon
• Early cinema to digital film
• Hollywood, British, European, and World
Cinemas
• Research-based teaching
• Study skills training
• Excellent library & IT resources
• The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum and archival
resources
• www.exeter.ac.uk/humanities/film
Single Honours Film Studies: Year One
Term 1 Term 2
Introduction to Film Major Debates in Film
Analysis Theory
Introduction to Film Transnational Cinemas
History
• www.exeter.ac.uk/humanities/film
Film Studies: Year One
Introduction to Film Analysis
Week 1: Cinematography
Week 2: Mise-en-scene
Week 3: Editing
Week 4: Sound
Week 5: Narrative
(Week 6: Opportunities week)
Week 7: Acting, Performance and Stardom
Week 8: Auteur
Week 9: Genre Indicative Viewing:
Week 10: Spectatorship and Audience Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, US, 2016), Volver (Pedro
Almodova, Spain, 2006), The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, US,
Week 11: Representation and Realism 1946), Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, USSR,
Week 12: Psychoanalysis 1929), Gravity (Alfonso Cuaron, UK, 2013), Gentlemen
Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawkes, US, 1953), Jules et Jim
(Francois Turffaut, Frances, 1962)
• www.exeter.ac.uk/humanities/film
Film Studies: Year One
Major Debates in Film Theory
1. Introduction: Film and theory
2. Film language - Semiotics
3. Representation and Realism - Ontology
4. Ideology
5. Affect
6. Psychoanalysis and cinema
7. Gender and Sexuality
8. Digital Cinema Part 1
Indicative Viewing:
9. Digital Cinema Part 2 – transmedia and Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941), The Player (Robert
convergence Altman, 1985); North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock,
1959); American Beauty (Sam Mendes, 1999), Rogue One: A
10. Historiography Star Wars Story (Gareth Edwards, 2016), Cloverfield (Matt
11. Paratexts Reeves, 2008), American Sniper (Clint Eastwood 2014), The
Matrix (Wachowski Bros, 1999); Lord of the Rings (Peter
Jackson, 2001)
• www.exeter.ac.uk/humanities/film
Single Honours Film Studies: Year Two
CORE modules:
• Shots in the Dark
• Cinescapes: Time, Space and Identity
OPTION modules:
• Adaptation: Text, Image, Culture
• European Film Noir
• Your choice of modules in English,
other film modules, or modules outside
the programme
• www.exeter.ac.uk/humanities/film
Film Studies: Final Year
(BA Film Studies and Modern Languages – 3rd Year is spent studying
and/or working abroad)
CORE modules:
• Dissertation OR
• Creative Film Dissertation
OPTION modules:
• American Independent Film
• Surrealism and its Legacies
• India Uncovered
• Something to See: War and Visual Media
• Writing the Short Film
• Beyond Sex and the City: Becoming a Woman in Western Cinema
• Cityscapes
• Your choice of modules outside of the programme
• www.exeter.ac.uk/humanities/filmExeter film culture: on campus and in the city
• Campus Cinema
• XTV (NASTA TV awards)
• Film Studies Society (Guild)
• Cinemas including Vue, Odeon, Studio 74 at Exeter
Phoenix and Exeter Picture House
• Picturehouse Screen Talks series
• The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum
• Vibrant programme of events, including writers,
filmmakers and others from creative industries
• Previous speakers include: Mark Kermode, Mike
Leigh, Mike Figgis, Nicolas Roeg, Tom Sayers (sound
editor), Don Boyd (producer/director), Narinda
Minhas (TV producer), Angus Finney (producer)
• www.exeter.ac.uk/humanities/filmThe Bill Douglas Cinema Museum
• Home to one of the largest
collections of material relating
to the moving image in the UK
• Collection of over 75,000 items
• Invaluable and exciting
resources for students
• http://www.bdcmuseum.org.uk/Study Abroad
In your third year, you will have the option of studying at one of over
25 partner institutions across the world
Choose to study abroad when you apply or after you have arrived
You’ll need to achieve a minimum 2:1 during your first year at Exeter
Reduced fees for the Year Abroad. No fees are paid to the host
institution.
Study at universities across Asia, Australia, North America and
Europe, including:
University of Sydney
Akita International University, Tokyo
University of Amsterdam
University of Ottawa
University of Hong Kong
University of South Florida
• www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduateNew employment experience
opportunities in the UK or Abroad
• Employment Experience and Employment
Experience Abroad programmes
• Transfer in your second year
• Spend up to a year carrying out a graduate-level
work placement or placements as part of your
degree*
• Develop employability and interpersonal skills that
relate to your degree and future career
• Reduced fees
* Please note the student is responsible for finding their placement
with support and approval from the University.
• www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduateFilm Studies Careers
• University of Exeter Film students have an excellent reputation
with employers across a range of sectors
• We are currently 3rd in the Russell Group for Film Graduate
Prospects
• 6 months after graduation 100% were in work or further study
• The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum offers a unique opportunity
to engage with their collection. Our students can apply for
internships, gaining valuable experience of curation. Some
have curated their own exhibitions.
www.exeter.ac.uk/humanities/film/undergraduate/careersFilm Studies Careers
• www.exeter.ac.uk/humanities/film/undergraduate/careersFilm Studies Graduate Destinations
Our graduates progress to a broad range of job roles as well as postgraduate
study. Here are just a few ideas of what our recent graduates are doing now:
Employment Further study
• Post-production Assistant • MA International Film Business
• Digital Media Assistant • MA History
• Editor / Film Maker • MA English
• Central Operations Assistant • MA Film Studies
(Banking) • MA Arts and Cinema Studies
• Production Runner • MRes in Sexuality and Gender
• Junior Researcher Studies
• PR Consultant • MA Theology
• Innovations Coordinator • Professional Acting
• Market Researcher • MA Film and Cinema
• Marketing Executive • MA Creative Writing
• Innovations Coordinator
www.exeter.ac.uk/humanities/film/undergraduate/careers/destinationsForeign Language Centre
• Study a language as part of your
degree
• Graduate ‘with proficiency
in’…..
• British Sign Language, French,
German, Italian, Japanese,
Arabic, Mandarin Chinese or
Spanish.
• www.humanities.exeter.ac.uk/flcYourExeter
• YourExeter is for you!
• An exclusive insider’s guide website for
students studying Humanities subjects
• Useful advice on what to do before
and after you arrive
• Meet your department, find out about
life in Exeter, and discover great
opportunities
• Login using your date of birth and
UCAS number or your email address
• www.humanities.exeter.ac.uk/yourexeterStudent handover…
• Your chance to hear directly from one of our students
about their experience studying Film Studies.
• Feel free to ask any questions!
@ExeterFilm
@exeterenglishandfilmQuestions? www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate Phone: 01392 723044 Email: ug-ad@Exeter.ac.uk
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