Film Studies and Music

About this course

Film studies and music are two disciplines that share a concern with how meaning is made through time-based art forms, and their combination at SOAS University of London creates a particularly distinctive intellectual environment. Film studies examines cinema as an art form and as a social and cultural practice, asking how films construct meaning, how they represent the world, how genres and movements develop, and how film functions within different cultural and industrial contexts. Music, studied at SOAS, carries a strong emphasis on the world's musical traditions, approaching the discipline from an ethnomusicological as well as a Western classical and popular perspective. Together, the two subjects develop a rich and genuinely global engagement with culture and its forms. At SOAS, this three-year full-time programme includes a foundation year, making it accessible to students who want

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