Film Studies Research

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MPhil/PhD

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Part Time, Full Time

Arts & Humanities graduate class
RESEARCH PROFILE
  • Current number of academic staff: 16.
  • Current number of research students: 30.
  • Recent publications:
    • Selfless Cinema? Ethics and French Documentary.
    • Special Effects: Still in Search of Wonder.
    • Italian Neo-Realism: Rebuilding the Cinematic City.
    • Pastiche.
    • Journeys of Desire: European Actors in Hollywood.
    • Beyond the Subtitle: Remapping European Art Cinema.
    • Michael Haneke's Cinema.
    • Nino Rota: Music, Film and Feeling.
    • Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles.
    • Heritage Film: Nation, Genre and Representation.
  • Current research projects
    • Experimental Cinemas: Aesthetics, Values, Publics.
    • Tales of the Deep South: Provence and the South of France in the Cinema.
    • Serial Killers.
    • The Soul of Film Theory.
    • Religion and Film.
    • South Korean Cinema.
    • East Asian Sensibility.
    • The Art of Exploitation.
KEY FACTS
Head of group/division
Head of Department: Dr Sarah Cooper; Convenor of Postgraduate Research: Dr Jinhee Choi.
Awarding institution
King's College London
Duration
Expected to be PhD (initial registration for MPhil), three years FT, four-six years PT; September to September.
Location
Strand Campus.
Student destinations
We expect our PhD-awarded graduates will pursue academic careers in film and visual studies, as many have; others may develop their skills in careers in the media arts and related activities.
Year of entry 2013
Offered by
Maughan Library