Film Studies and History

About this course

Film studies and history is a combination that recognises something important: films are not just entertainment but historical documents, cultural artefacts, and modes of understanding and reshaping the past. Film studies provides the theoretical and critical tools to analyse how cinema constructs meaning through image, sound, narrative, and form. History provides the evidence, the questions, and the methodological rigour to situate films in their social, political, and cultural contexts and to assess what they tell us about the worlds that made them. At the University of Manchester you will study across three years on a full-time programme. The film studies strand gives you a thorough grounding in film history and key theoretical approaches to the study of cinema, from formalism and structuralism to psychoanalysis, feminist theory, and postcolonial criticism. The history strand brings

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