English and Film Studies

About this course

English and film studies is a pairing that makes profound sense, because both disciplines are fundamentally concerned with how stories are told, how meaning is made, and how narrative shapes human experience. English literature brings centuries of written tradition, offering frameworks for understanding metaphor, character, structure, and the relationship between texts and their social contexts. Film studies extends those concerns into the moving image, asking how cinema constructs meaning through visual language, editing, sound, and the conventions of genre. Together, they give you a genuinely rich set of tools for engaging with culture in its widest sense. At the University of Sussex, set in the dynamic environment of Brighton, this three-year full-time degree encourages you to challenge ideas, rethink received norms, and develop an original critical voice. You will read closely acros

Where its graduates go

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