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MA Film & Screen Studies

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    MA 1 year full-time or 2 years part-time

Masters Degree Description

Explore film philosophy, find out how images create meaning in experimental modes, and discover how we can think through the moving image on this eclectic Masters.

  • This theory-led MA Film and Screen Studies course goes beyond the borders of a traditional film studies degree. We go back to the beginning of film history to explore what it means to fashion yourself in a moving image, or for society to see itself reflected.
  • You’ll explore how images gain meaning from the past, to consider where they’re going next in terms of digital aesthetics, AI, and immersive interfaces.
  • We’re interested in the cultural evolution of the moving image through the historical avant-garde, cinematic technology and culture, in both mainstream and underground filmmaking, to then contextualise contemporary and emerging screen cultures.
  • You’ll engage deeply with philosophical approaches to film, where moving images represent, reflect and refract established ideas, but also generate a form of non-verbal thinking of their own. How do screen technologies impact on perception, feeling, and memory? How can we experimentally use them to think differently (or do they experiment on us)? 
  • This is not a film-making course, but as audiovisual media constitute more and more of our communication, you will have the opportunity to put your thoughts into audio-visual form on several modules.If you take this MA’s Media Arts Pathway, you can make your own DIY work and submit it as part of your assessment. Production values are not the focus–we’re interested in what you do with an idea.
  • As part of the University of London, you will also have the chance to explore one option from the MA Film & Media programmes at other universities.
  • You'll study in one of the top Media, Communications and Cultural Studies departments globally. We are ranked second in the UK for 'world-leading or internationally excellent' research (REF, 2021) and 16th in the world (third in the UK) in the 2024 QS World Rankings by Subject.

Entry Requirements

You should have (or expect to be awarded) an undergraduate degree of at least upper second class standard in a relevant/related subject.

You might also be considered for some programmes if you aren’t a graduate or your degree is in an unrelated field, but have relevant experience and can show that you have the ability to work at postgraduate level.

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Fees

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Programme Funding

Goldsmiths offers a range of financial support including postgraduate scholarships, bursaries and fee waivers. These are awarded based on a variety of criteria, for example academic achievements or personal circumstances.

Student Destinations

Our graduates go on to work in areas such as programming and curating, film and video distribution, and film and television criticism, but many also create their own careers. 20% of our graduates pursue PhD degrees.

Module Details

The MA offers two pathways: 

MA Film and Screen Studies: Moving Image Studies Pathway 

This pathway explores new critical approaches that address the currency of moving image media in today’s global context – their aesthetics, technology and politics. It seeks to extend the boundaries for studying moving images by considering a wider range of media and introducing students to a wider range of approaches for investigating moving images’ past and present. 

MA Film and Screen Studies: Media Arts Pathway 

This pathway explores these emerging experimental practices of image making and criticism. Students on this pathway are encouraged not just to study but to curate and critique past, present and future media arts by building exhibitions and visual essays of their own. Short practical workshops will enable students to make the most of the skills you bring into the course. 

The MA consists of: 

  • two core modules 60 credits in total comprising one shared and one pathway-specific core module 
  • option modules to the value of 60 credits 
  • a dissertation 60 credits (on the Media Arts pathway up to 50% of the dissertation can be submitted in audiovisual form) 

Core modules 

  • Archaeology of the Moving Image 15 credits (both pathways) 
  • Politics of the Audiovisual 15 credits (Moving Image Studies Pathway) 
  • Experimental Media 30 credits or 15 credits (Media Arts pathway) 

Option modules 

We offer a wide range of option modules each year.

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