English with Film Studies

A sample of the current modules offered is shown below. We review our modules on a regular basis, in order to continue to offer you an innovative and exciting programme. Please check here for updates.

Students take six of the modules in English plus the two compulsory modules in Film Studies.

English Language & Literature:
Language in Time
Classical & Biblical Contexts of English Literature
Introducing Literary Theories
Medieval Literary Culture
Reading Poetry
Renaissance Literature
Writing London


Film Studies:
Introduction to Film Studies: Forms
Introduction to Film Studies: Contexts



Students will take six of the options listed plus two options in Film Studies. The English Department operates a banding system for its second year modules, to ensure a balanced programme of study. The following options may be offered in a given year.

A Mad World, My Masters: Performing Culture in Jacobean London
Australian Literature & Film
Creative Writing: the Novel
Cultural Encounters: Literature & Language in Anglo-Saxon England
Early Modern Sexualities
Eighteenth-Century Travel Writing
First World War Literature
History, Politics & the Elizabethan Imagination
Irish Literature & Culture
English Language & Literature
Language of Dance
Modernist Fiction
Rise of the Novel
Narrating the Nation
Performance in Medieval Culture 
Romanticism, Revolution & Representation 1776-1832
Shakespeare in London
Subjects of Desire in Medieval Religious Writings
The Fin de Siecle
Theatre Capital
Victorians & Social Change 1840-1870

Film Studies:
Asian Popular Cinema
Cinema & Spectatorship
Film Authorship
Film Forms (eg Documentary Film)
The French New Wave
Italian Cinema
Spanish Cinema
Topics in European Cinema or Topics in World Cinema



Students will take six of the English options listed plus two options in Film Studies.

English Language & Literature:
Ancient Lyric & Poetry
Autobiography & Modern Self-Representation
Beowulf: Heroes & Other Monsters
British Literature & Film
Court Cultures in the Age of Elizabeth I
Creative Writing: Drama
Critically Queer: Literature, Culture & Queer Theory
Elizabethan Shakespeare
Gender and Performance
Imagined Worlds 
Jacobean Shakespeare
James Joyce & Ulysses
Jane Austen in Context
Literature & Impressionism
Medieval Body in Pain 
Medieval Romance 
Memory & Time in the 19th Century
Performance Philosophy
Post Colonial Australian Literature
Post Colonial Perspectives

Film Studies:
American Underground Cinema or American Independent Cinema
Film & Trans-nationalism
Film Genre, Style & Ideology
Film Noir or The European Crime Film
Representation & Identity in Film
Stardom & Performance
Third Cinema & Beyond