MA Film and Creative Enterprise

Compulsory modules

Exploring Screen Practices 

Develop production and filmmaking competencies through short practical projects supported by workshops and masterclasses. You’ll gain an understanding of the way in which creative processes relate to critical analysis, while enhancing a wide range of professional skills in field of screen media. 

Film: Creative Peaks and Industries 

Explore common tropes and cross-pollinations across the creative peaks of film productions and movements from around the world. You’ll focus new cinemas and waves, and booms of production, analysing blockbusters along with indigenous landmarks to demonstrate how they compare and interrelate through portrayals of shared desires and concerns. 

Film Programming and Film Festivals 

Study different modes of programming and organising arthouse, alternative and experimental venues, as well as film festivals, exploring how the pool of world festivals influences funding and distribution of different productions. You’ll be taught through a range of dynamic seminars, workshops and group projects, led by academics and industry representatives. 

Film Project or Dissertation

Conduct independent research, with the advice and support of teaching staff, and demonstrate your knowledge and skills in film studies through an extended project. Your project will focus on a particular critical/theoretical issue or subject in the form of a short film, with supporting analytical documentation or an extended piece of writing. 

Optional modules

Screen Bodies

Explore how diverse bodies move on screen and how their representation is shaped by culture, society, creative traditions, and conditions of production and reception. You’ll examine how the screen body generates meaning, as well as ethical issues of access to representation, visibility, marginalisation and consent.  

Financing for Creative Entrepreneurship 

Explore the various forms of financing available to creative entrepreneurship, including debt, equity financing, not-for-profit, and alternative financing such as reward-based crowdfunding. Through examples of product commercialisation in creative industries, you’ll develop skills of cost-benefit analysis of a project and financial appraisal of new ventures. 

Adaption across Stage and Screen 

Explore the processes of artistic adaptation in film, television and theatre, and engage with the critical, cultural, and political considerations surrounding this practice. You’ll gain an understanding of a broad range of adaptation practices, including page to stage/screen, fanfiction, intercultural retellings and documentary theatre. 

Management in Creative and Cultural Organisations 

Explore organisations that are engaged in creative or cultural activities, and understand the challenges they face and how these influence the way they operate. You’ll examine how organisations from various sectors seek to promote (and control) creativity to enhance their innovation and efficiency. 

Data Protection and Emerging Issues in Copyright Law

Explore data protection and copyright, including the legal protection afforded to privacy and personal data and the processing of personal information in the UK and EU regulatory framework. You’ll learn how to critically assess the day-to-day operation of data protection and copyright issues – including those related to creative work and authorship – and participate in cutting-edge discussions around scholarship and case law.

These are the modules that we currently offer for 2024/25 entry. They may be subject to change as we regularly review our module offerings to ensure they’re informed by the latest research and teaching methods.

Please note that the University cannot guarantee that all optional modules will be available to all students who may wish to take them.

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