Film Studies and Philosophy

About this course

Cinema is one of the defining art forms of modern life, and studying it alongside philosophy gives you two complementary ways of understanding the world. Film Studies brings critical, historical and theoretical tools to bear on moving image culture, examining how films construct meaning, reflect social realities and shape collective experience. Philosophy asks the foundational questions beneath all of that: what counts as knowledge, what makes something art, how do we reason about ethics and representation. Together, these disciplines train you to think with unusual rigour about cultural objects that most people simply consume. At St Andrews you will study this MA (Hons) over four years, with a year abroad built into the programme. Film Studies uses a variety of critical, theoretical and historical approaches to examine global film cultures across the twentieth and twenty-first centurie

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