You'll take a module on Hollywood film and learn the basic principles of film studies, including narrative, style and criticism. You can also study European cinema, and its history, themes and styles.

You'll choose from English modules on topics including:

• poetic language
• a group research project, including options such as City Writing in the Nineteenth Century, Literature to Save the Planet, or Decadence and Decay at the Fin de Siècle
• the novel
• the history and practice of essay writing
• literary transformations (how writers adapt and renew stories)

You'll take a module on early and silent cinema. You can also choose from a wide range of topics from film, English and other subjects, including:

• scriptwriting
• film and TV adaptations
• 20th century literature in New York
• realism in film
• women and Hollywood
• the philosophy of art

You'll write a dissertation on a topic of your choice from English or Film. A supervisor with research expertise on your topic will support you.

You'll also choose from modules on topics including:

• horror, science fiction and fantasy film
• stardom
• race, gender and sexuality in British cinema
• contemporary American cinema
• Jane Austen and the Regency world
• language and the city
• Holocaust literature
• Shakespeare then and now
• how the arts work (a module on programming in arts venues)