MA Film and Cultural Management: University of Southampton

Course Description

This MA will suit you if you wish to combine postgraduate study of film with a theoretical and practical knowledge of cultural management.

Visual media play a significant political, social and economic role, and there is a strong awareness of the importance of professional management in this context.

The programme provides a framework through which the contemporary cultural sector can be understood and analysed, focusing on how cultural management affects the visual media.

Areas covered may include the organisation of film festivals; specialist film programming; film journalism; film exhibition, marketing and audience development; and the role of private and public film agencies. Case studies draw on local, national and international examples.

A series of talks by industry professionals accompanies the academic programme, and a flexible structure allows for student specialisation and choice.

Programme Structure

Core modules

• Current issues in film distribution and exhibition
• Film policy: national and global perspectives
• Key skills 1: research in film studies
• Key skills 2: preparing for the dissertation

Optional module from

• Cold war cinema and its remakes
• popular British cinema
• Science fiction cinema
• Screen costume, spectacle and the image
• Screen stars in context
• Silent cinema

Entry requirements

Upper second-class honours degree or equivalent in an arts-related subject