Film Studies

Overview

This critical appraisal of such a wide range of genres gives you a solid understanding of what makes film work well, enabling you to improve your own production skills in camerawork, editing, lighting, screenwriting and production management.

The Film Studies programme is offered at the University of Essex .

You gain a strong sense of independent filmmaking practice, and learn to apply your academic knowledge of film through exploring topics including:

• The formal, social, cultural and political dimensions of films from both within and beyond Hollywood
• Fiction film production, including pre-production, camera, lighting and sound
• Classics of the documentary form , docufictions and mockumentaries
• Collective and individual filmmaking projects
• Storyboarding and editing

Your future

• We actively encourage and assist you to find appropriate internship and work placement opportunities during your studies, allowing you to practice and develop your skills and experience as well as enhancing your graduate employment prospects.
• A number of our Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies graduates have gone on to undertake successful careers as scholars, university lecturers, teachers, publishers, journalists, arts administrators, theatre artistic directors, drama advisers, filmmakers, film editors and translators.
• We also offer supervision for PhD, MPhil and MA by Dissertation in different literatures and various approaches to literature, covering most aspects of early modern and modern writing in English, plus a number of other languages.