Film Studies and Social Anthropology

About this course

Film studies and social anthropology are disciplines that share a deep preoccupation with culture, human experience, and the ways societies make meaning and represent themselves. Film studies uses critical, theoretical, and historical approaches to examine one of the most significant cultural and artistic forms of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, exploring how films construct meaning, how they reflect and shape social reality, and how cinema has developed across different national and international contexts. Social anthropology, meanwhile, takes the full diversity of human societies as its subject, using participant observation, comparative analysis, and theoretical frameworks to understand kinship, economy, religion, politics, and identity across cultures. At the University of St Andrews, the MA (Hons) in Film Studies and Social Anthropology runs over four years in full-time m

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