Advanced Humanities courses

This advanced level film studies course will introduce you to a range of theoretical approaches to the study of film. It will consider some of the earliest attempts to think about film, studies that borrowed methodologies from other disciplines. As early as 1915, for example, writers were applying psychology to film analysis, exploring the emotional responses of audiences to this still new medium. Early theorists argued for film as a distinct art form, and we will examine a number of their key texts. In the 1960s, film studies began to develop as a specific subject of study in universities in the US and the UK, once again deploying perspectives from other subject areas. We will examine a number of these theories and consider their continued importance for the analysis and understanding of film today.

For those who want to explore the rewards of in-depth literary study, focusing on fiction, poetry and drama. Read, analyse and debate works that reflect the cultural and historical changes in a shifting world, exploring 19th century British, European and American texts,including A Doll's House (1879) by Henrik Ibsen, Washington Squareby Henry James (1880), and poetry by Emily Dickinson and Christina Rossetti.