Postgraduate Study
We offer the following, cutting edge taught MA course:
MA in Documentary Practice
This popular MA provides you with the space to creatively, practically and critically engage with the documentary from a variety of traditions. The practical side of the course is taught by a range of working professional documentary filmmakers selected to give students a diverse experience of the many different approaches and possibilities across the genre. While the course is primarily oriented towards practice (approximately 75% practical, 25% theoretical) we believe that effective practice in whatever documentary traditions you choose to draw on and work with requires critical engagement, reflection and historical knowledge, if you are to fulfil your own potential as well that of the documentary genre.
Recent graduates have found employment as: a Documentary Producer - PureRisk Entertainment; Production Team - Pramface Mansion (broadcast BBC 2008); Development Dept ( Windfall Films); Location Assistant - production company in Athens; freelance cameraperson; freelance non-linear video editor; ZDF German TV - history and society documentary dept.
Postgraduate Research Degrees in Film and Television Studies
Film and TV staff can supervise MPhil and PhD study, including practice-led research, in a wide range of areas, including:
- contemporary British, European, Hong Kong, Hollywood and American independent cinema
- science fiction, horror, comedy
- cult media, transgression
- documentary, animation, video practice
- Third Cinema
- gender, sexuality and the body in film
- videogames and other new media technologies
- marxist and psychoanalytic methodologies
- cinematic spectacle, narrative
