English with Film Studies King's College London

Overview

The English with Film Studies BA at King's College London gives you the chance to explore a variety of exciting topics, with English modules covering global English literatures from the medieval to the contemporary, alongside Film Studies modules which will provide you with a detailed knowledge of the creative potential of film, and the relationship between film and the societies it portrays.

The English with Film Studies BA is an inter-departmental course that covers a broad range subjects, from contemporary poetry to medieval performance to creative writing. It combines a variety of approaches, including contemporary critical and cultural theory, close textual and technical examination and historical scholarship.

We aim to offer open and imaginative approaches to classic literary and film texts together with current developments in both disciplines.

Key benefits

• We are one of the oldest English departments in the country, with an international reputation for the quality of our teaching and research

• Our Central London location offers opportunities to work with Shakespeare's Globe as well as an exciting range of other sites and archives. Our location also offers exciting possibilities for further access to film, most notably King’s close proximity to the British Film Institute Library, and the new BFI Southbank.

• Ours is a department committed to teaching English literatures of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries written in America, Anglophone Africa, Australia, Ireland and South Asia as well as within the UK

• Consistently one of the best departments for the study of film in the UK, and currently ranked as the 1st department of Film in central London (Guardian University Guide 2018)

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