入学要求 Requirement：
学术要求：A UK 2:1 honours degree, or its international equivalent, in a relevant discipline.
英语要求： IELTS total of 7.0 with not less than 6.0 in any one section.
学费 Tuition Fee： 2011/2012 £12,200
课程特征 Course Features：
This programme aims to expand the students’ understanding and knowledge of the theory, aesthetics and practice of film.
What makes it distinctive is its focus on art and auteur film combined with a comparative study of mainstream cinema.
The course explores film's relation to other arts and engages with various forms of moving image culture and digital media.
It aims to introduce students to Scotland’s lively film culture allowing them to network within their field.
课程内容 Course Content ：
The curriculum combines a core course and a research methods course with 2 option courses selected from the list indicated below.
- In the first term, students normally attend:
An intensive Research Methods course (first week of term)
Two 2-hour seminars weekly: one seminar in Film Theory and Criticism and one in the option chosen. Classes are supplemented with screenings.
- In the second term:
Two 2-hour seminars weekly: one seminar in Film Theory and Criticism and one in the second option chosen. Students also attend Research Skills seminars, two hours a week for 5 weeks.
In addition, students will receive regular supervision during the period in which they research and start to write their dissertation.
Students may ask authorization to audit courses in addition to compulsory courses.
Core Course
The compulsory core course in Film Theory and Criticism extends over the first and second semesters and introduces students to a number of the most influential theories of film that have emerged since the invention of the medium.
Option Courses
Two option courses. The following list of options is indicative (please note that it varies in any given year). Further option courses are offered by the School of Art, Cultures and the Environment and the School of Social and Political Science.
1.Impure Cinema (Film and the Other Arts)
2. French Cinema: The Nouvelle Vague and Contemporary Trends (Truffaut, Godard, Varda, Chabrol, Beineix, Besson, Carax, Noé, Dumont, Denis and Breillat amongst others)
3. Cinema Auteurs 1 and 2 (Looking at the work of a selection of directors - Vigo, Renoir, Welles, Hitchcock, Ozu, Marker, Tarkovski, Wajda, Kaurismaki, Lynch, von Trier, Kar-Wai, Angelopoulos
4. Cinema: Time, Space, Memory - based on the study of a selection of films (Resnais' Hiroshima and Last Year in Marienbad to Kar-Wai's In the Mood for Love, Lynch's Mulholland Drive and Sokurov'sThe Russian Ark...)
5. African Politics, Literature and Film
6. The Screen and the Unconscious: Film and Psychoanalysis
7. Theorising Contemporary Art
8. Cinematic Bodies
9. The Digital Marketplace
10. Avant-Garde Film
11. Media and Culture
12. The Aesthetics of the Western City
13. Gender, Revolution and Modernity in Chinese Cinema
14. Constructing Reality (involves the making of a 4mn documentary)
15. Sound and Fixed Media (an in-depth exploration of sound in various audio and audio-visual media including film and animation film)
16. Cinemas of the Middle East
17. Postcolonial Settlers: migration and displacement in literature and film
18. Cinema and Society in Britain since 1895
19. The City and Its Others