Film and Television Studies at Warwick focuses on the close analysis and appreciation of films and television. The Department takes a range of approaches, looking at Hollywood, national cinemas, television history and aesthetics, ethnicity and film, gender, genres and the work of particular directors. Films are studied in wellequipped screening rooms with 35mm projection, supplemented by the programme of films offered on campus by the Arts Centre cinema, the Student Film Society and other Film Clubs across the University.

Example modules

Introduction to Film Studies

This module introduces you to the close analysis of film texts, considers a number of key developments in film history and asks you to explore some of the critical debates that have shaped the development of Film Studies as an academic discipline. Over the year we will progress from examining how individual films and groups of films make meanings to considering the cultural analysis of cinema as an institution and film consumption as a set of social practices.

The Hollywood Cinema

This module will focus mainly on three of the most  important and established ways in which Hollywood cinema has been critically explored – stardom and performance, genre, and directorial style – and on how these elements interact. We are studying movies made during the studio era of Hollywood filmmaking, an era when stars and other personnel were often contracted to major studios and genres were vital to production and reception. One important effect of these features was the production of a dense intertextuality between these movies, an awareness of which is vital to an
understanding of them.

More modules may be available to those students offering sufficient background in Film & TV Studies.