MA in Film and Television Production  MA in Film and Television Production University of Bristol ../webroot/files/Institutions/cover_photo/1565162243University-of-Bristol-1.jpg

The Faculty of Arts supports a lively postgraduate culture in film and television studies. The city of Bristol itself is also a focus for film culture. We have a rich variety of cinema venues including the Arnolfini, the Cube and the Watershed Media Centre, as well as major multiplexes. The city is also host to the annual Encounters International Film Festival The MA in Film and Television Studies engages students with film and television in different contexts and genres using historical, textual and theoretical approaches. We also offer expertise across a range of world cinemas including African, British, European and Hollywood cinemas. Although the programme is not practice-based, two practice-based options are available to students on writing for screen medi and 'narrative practices'. The programme addresses a wide range of themes, including historic and contemporary practices in film and television production distribution and exhibition the relationship between contemporary trends and and earlier developments in film and television histories and the role of film and television in the formation of identities and nations. The core and optional units will equip you with the skills to prepare for the independent research element of the programme. This may take the form of a dissertation or an industrial placement in a filmtelevision or related organisation, for which you will prepare a critical essay. It is also possible to do the dissertation combining practice-based and written elements Programme Structure Two core units, four optional units and the dissertation First Semester Core unit: * Screen Forms and Analysis Optional units: * Critical Theory * Film Theory * Politics, Poetics and Places of Memory: Remembering the Holocaust, 1945 to the Present * Reception: Theories and Research Methods * Screen Histories * Screen Narrative Practices * Screening Nations * Television Cultures (subject to approval) Second Semester Core unit: * Screen Research Methods Optional units * East Asian Cinemas (subject to approval) * Critical Analysis of Media Music * European Cinema: National and Transnational * Production skills: Writing * Reception:History, Time and the Archive * Screen Style and Aesthetics * Television Forms * Theories of Visual Culture: Text and Image * War on Screen Dissertation A written dissertation (15,000 words), or: * an industrial placement with critical analysisessay, or * a combined practice-basedwritten dissertation