BA · The University of Essex · 5 years
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Film studies and art history are disciplines that both ask how visual objects make meaning, how they are shaped by their historical moment, and what they reveal about the societies that produce and consume them. Taken together, they give you a double lens: one trained on the moving image and the institutions of cinema, the other on the longer history of artistic practice across painting, sculpture, photography, and the built environment. The conversation between these fields is genuinely productive, because cinema emerged from and continued to be shaped by the visual arts, and contemporary art practice is often deeply entangled with screen culture. At the University of Essex this five-year programme builds in a year abroad, giving you the opportunity to study within a different academic and cultural context and to encounter different national traditions of film and art. You will study a
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