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English literature is challenging, flexible, and wide-ranging; it covers not only traditional areas (such as Shakespeare or Dickens) but newer fields such as American literature, creative writing, postcolonial literature and developments in literary theory; students are also offered the opportunity to spend a year studying abroad in either America or Europe; film studies engages with cinema�s rich scope and history, from silent classics and mainstream Hollywood to world cinema and the avant-garde; there is have a thriving film culture, with 10-20 films screened on courses each week, the Gulbenkian cinema (the regional arts cinema) based on campus, and a lively student film society.
Stage 1: Critical practice; early drama; romanticism and critical theory; introduction to narrative cinema 1: American cinema; introduction to narrative cinema 2: world cinema. Stage 2/3: Core modules including: long essay; study of a single film; topics in American cinema and/or British cinema; early American literature 1630-1880/modern American literature: from the closing of the frontier to the end of the cold war; 18th century literature 1680-1770/18th century literature 1770-1832; Shakespeare and his contemporaries 1: comedies/Shakespeare and his contemporaries 2: tragedies; medieval and Tudor literature/early modern literature; narratives from life/individual writing project; 6 modules from: animated worlds; border crossings in American cinema; British cinema since the 1950s; cinema and difference; cinema in 1920s Berlin, Paris, Moscow; concepts in film form; European cinema 1: realisms; female performance; film and television adaptation; film style, interpretation and evaluation; history of British cinema; pulp film: the avant-garde and popular cinema; real TV: television and the construction of popular reality; silent cinema; sound and cinema; special and digital effects: a critical history; storytelling and the cinema; television: the medium and its forms; options.
AAB (SQA Higher: AAABB or SQA Advanced Higher: AAB)
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Wed 26th Sep 2012 |
3 years |
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Canterbury, CT2 7NZ |
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£9000 per year |
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Wed 26th Sep 2012 |
6 years |
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Canterbury, CT2 7NZ |
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WQ63
University of Kent
British Commonwealth History, English Literature, Americas: Literature, Film Studies
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2 Hotcourses user(s) found the following review helpful.The teaching is highly relevant. The tutors are highly knowledgeable in their fields and provide the most comprehensive and relevant material needed to pass this course. I would'nt say the course is easy, as there is alot of stuff to learn ...more
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