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Film Studies
with Creative Writing
Why study this course?

Here at Keele, you’ll study film analytically, whilst integrating and
emphasising the significance of screen writing in the context of
different modes of writing, including scripts, poetry and prose.
You’ll explore each of the core areas of Film Studies: film history; national
cinemas; film theory; film and culture. While core modules cover key
skills and concepts in film studies, a variety of elective modules offer you
the opportunity to pursue more focused interests in genre, particular
film directors and in a variety of international cinemas. You’ll revisit
popular and ‘classic’ cinema within new and enriching critical frameworks
but will also have the chance to study and enjoy films from other less
familiar film making traditions, periods and cultures. You will also study
creative writing in every semester, experimenting with poetry, prose, and
screenwriting in order to develop your creative writing and to become
a self-reflexive practitioner. You’ll be taught by a team who are research
active experts in their fields, with a commitment to lively and innovative
teaching methods.

Indicative modules

First year
• Reading Film
• Poetry through Practice
• Film Texts and Contexts:
History and Theory
• Fiction through Practice
Second year
• Gender and the Cinematic Gaze
• Writing for the Screen
• Film Texts and Contexts II:
Contemporary Global Cinema
• Creative Writing: Poetry
and Prose
Third year
• Dissertation in Film Studies
• Creative Writing Independent
Study Project
• Representing the Self, Family
and Society on Contemporary
British and American Television
• Postmodernism: Fiction, Film
and Theory

Key Information
Course type
Single honours

Course duration
Three years

Indicative entry
requirements
ABB

For further information on
entry requirements please
visit www.keele.ac.uk/
entryrequirements

Study abroad
Yes

What will this mean
for my future?

You’ll have capability to work
independently and collaboratively
in a wide range of professions.
You will develop key transferable
skills, such as: creative thinking
and communication; developing
and revising critical and creative
texts; and giving and receiving
constructive critique. You will
also develop your research,
analysis, and critical writing skills,
which will make you extremely
attractive to a wide range of
employers, including those within
the different creative and cultural
industries which now form a large
part of the UK’s economy.

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