Explore Culture, History & Humanities Courses

Come and join us at the Cultureplex Ciné-Club 2, where once a week, for 10 weeks (and throughout the academic



year), we will watch and discuss film. Taking its cue from the famous Parisian ciné-club set up by the celebrated critic and writer, André Bazin, ‘the single thinker most responsible for bestowing on cinema the prestige both of an artform and of an object of knowledge’, and the man who foresaw the emergence of film studies as a legitimate discipline of academic study, our contemporary incarnation of the film club will offer a curated series of films for detailed study, discussion and debate. Each film will be introduced, placed in both its cinematic, cultural and historic context. In sharing our viewing in City Lit’s premier screening room, the Cultureplex, we will approximate the experience of watching film in the cinema, one that is intense and fully focussed in a way that other modes of viewing often are not. After the screening we will devote the rest of the class to a collective exploration of the film, led by the tutor, but involving everyone in a participatory discussion that will allow all to express their responses, their views, their thoughts on the film screened.







Please note that this course will screen a new and different set of films to HF211 Cultureplex Cine-Club, which will run with the same films screened last year. If you took the Cultureplex Cine-Club course last year (2023-4), please ensure that you take the Cultureplex Cine-Club 2 courses this year.

Enjoy talking with other people about the things you have read? Want to share great stories, poems and drama? Come along and join the conversation. The group is led by a shared reading practitioner trained by The Reader Organisation.

Join us as we examine whether women in the 21st century Britain, have truly achieve the gender equalities that Second Wave feminism strove for in the1960s.

Why are writers turning to letters in the twenty-first century? What kinds of stories do they tell, and how? On this contemporary fiction course we’ll explore literature and letters as we read four very different novels: Maria Semple, Where’d You Go, Bernadette? (2012), Sarah Moss, Cold Earth (2009), Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War (2019), Janice Hallett, The Appeal (2021).

How do we come to hold beliefs that matter to us? How do we sometimes change our beliefs? What are the different ways in which we can feel we belong or do not belong? Join this course to explore these and other related questions.