Film and German: University of Southampton

Course overview

Film studies is an exciting and challenging subject that provides a critical understanding of film as popular entertainment, theoretical discipline, industry and art form.

Looking back to film’s nineteenth-century origins and forward to today’s innovations in digital technology, you will explore the role of cinema across different social, historical and cultural contexts. You will study a diverse range of film-makers and influential movements, from Alfred Hitchcock to Pedro Almodóvar, and from German expressionism to contemporary US cinema. Film studies employs a multitude of interpretive tools, from sociological approaches to close textual analysis.

You will spend your third year in a country where your chosen language is spoken, either working as a language assistant in a school, studying in a university, or on a placement in an approved workplace.

Career Opportunities

By the end of your degree you will have acquired a clear knowledge of world cinema history and the main critical debates that accompany its study at degree level, as well as the ability to undertake independent research. You will be well prepared to take up employment opportunities in the expanding media industries.

Course content

• World cinema
• Hollywood
• European film
• Cinematography
• Video production
• Popular film genres
• Film aesthetics
• Cinema pre-history
• Critical theories, cultural history

Entry requirements

• A levels: ABB, including grade B in German
• IB: 30 points, including 15 at Higher Level, with 6 in Higher Level German

Main University Contact

• Postal Address: University of Southampton
  University Road
  Southampton
  SO17 1BJ
• Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 5000
• Fax: +44 (0)23 8059 3131
• Email: admissns@soton.ac.uk
• Website: http://www.soton.ac.uk/