Film Studies and East Asian Studies

About this course

Film studies and East Asian studies make for a genuinely illuminating combination. Cinema is one of the defining cultural forms of the modern era, and East Asia has produced some of the most significant, commercially powerful, and artistically distinctive filmmaking traditions in the world, from the golden age of Japanese cinema and the Hong Kong action film to the new waves of Chinese and South Korean cinema. Studying them together means you can bring film-theoretical rigour to a rich and often under-explored body of work, while the cultural and historical depth of East Asian studies gives you a more grounded understanding of the contexts in which that work was produced and received. At the University of Manchester, this joint degree provides you with a thorough grounding in film theory and history, giving you the conceptual tools to analyse moving image media across periods, genres, a

Where its graduates go

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