Film Studies and French The University of Manchester

Overview

You will also expand your experience of film through course units and screenings that focus on both classical and contemporary films, and mainstream and non-mainstream cinema

Film Studies

• You will study mainstream and non-mainstream films in order to broaden your understanding of the history of film, as well as the debates and issues that are informing and generated by current practice in film and shaping its future.

• As you enhance your skills of close analysis, you will also develop an understanding of how film engages with socio-cultural and political concerns, placing the films you study in their historical context as well as thinking about current debates and future challenges for cinema as a medium.

• The Film Studies and French (Hons) course offered at The University of Manchester emphasises historical and theoretical approaches to studying film rather than practical production. 

French

• Over 70% of our staff are native speakers, teaching you in French language classes as well as most culture classes.
• You will experience between 3 and 6 hours of French grammar and conversation every week (at post A-Level or beginners' level), in order to reach near-native precision and fluency. This will run in parallel with optional course units on French and Francophone history, politics, literature, popular culture and/or linguistics, from the Early Modern period to the present.
• You will benefit from our long-established partnership with the Alliance Francaise de Manchester with cultural events throughout the year, such as film screenings, talks, plays, concerts, exhibitions and intensive language classes.
• You will also benefit from our collaboration with the Institut de Touraine in the Loire Valley, which hosts Easter and Summer French language classes that are appropriate for ab initio students and finalists.

Career opportunities

Study Film Studies and French at The University of Manchester, and you'll learn to:

• interpret and critically analyse theatre, performance and film;

• create original work for live performance and film;

• develop critical and analytical thinking and writing;

• demonstrate a high level of transferable skills - especially in interpersonal communication, group work, leadership, creative problem solving, teamwork, presentation and research.