Film Studies and French

Film studies and French is a combination that gives you two complementary routes into understanding how cultures express themselves and communicate across borders. Film studies examines the moving image as both art and industry, developing the analytical tools to understand how films create meaning, how different national cinemas have evolved, and how cinema participates in social, political, and historical life. French brings you language, literature, and access to one of the world's major cinematic traditions, as well as to the full richness of French and francophone culture across Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and beyond.

At the University of Manchester, this four-year full-time programme gives you a thorough grounding in film history and key theoretical approaches to studying film alongside education in French language and culture, with the opportunity to develop specialist areas of interest as the degree progresses. You will study the history of world cinema alongside French cinema, analyse films through critical and theoretical lenses, and develop your French to a high level across all four language skills. The programme includes a sandwich year in industry and a work placement, giving you direct professional experience before you graduate, possibly in a French-language film or media environment.

With a typical entry tariff of 152 UCAS points, this degree attracts students with both cinematic curiosity and linguistic aptitude. Graduates move into careers in film programming and curation, arts journalism and criticism, broadcasting, cultural policy, education, publishing, translation, international communications, and the creative industries more broadly. French language skills are a genuine professional differentiator in any role requiring engagement with francophone cultures or markets.

Many graduates continue to postgraduate study in film studies, French, translation, media, or European cultural studies.