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The MA in Film Studies provides students with an opportunity to study cinema as a cultural medium with a rich and varied history. The programme will explore aspects of this history as well as the critical and theoretical issues it raises. In doing this, the programme will draw upon a wide range of films from different countries and historical periods. Mainstream cinemas and various forms of oppositional cinema will all be considered. The programme also seeks to locate cinema in relation to broader social, cultural and intellectual contexts and debates. It aims to give students an understanding of cinema in terms of both its historical development and its constantly changing place within different national cultures in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Integral to the MA is the acquisition of research skills, and training in these is an essential element of the programme of study. These skills equip students for postgraduate research at Masters level, but they also provide a basis for further advanced research at doctoral level. Students may opt to take either a module in Contemporary Cultural and Social Theory or Skills in Media Practices and also undertake a compulsory Research Methods module. They also take two Film options current options include 'The City in Film', 'Gender and Sexuality in Film', 'Italian Film Genres' and 'Approaches to Cinema History'. Finally, students write a dissertation on a film-related subject.