Film Studies

About this course

Film Studies is a discipline that treats cinema as a serious object of intellectual inquiry, examining how films are made, what they mean and how they function within the cultures that produce and receive them. It asks why certain films look the way they do, how narrative conventions have evolved across different national traditions, and what role cinema plays in shaping and reflecting social attitudes, political ideologies and collective memory. At the same time, a good Film Studies degree does not separate theory from practice: understanding how films work conceptually is deepened by the experience of actually making them. At Keele University this three-year full-time BA gives you both analytical depth and practical skills. You will study film as an art form across a wide range of traditions and periods, developing critical frameworks for interpreting what you see. You will also use i

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