Film and Screen Enterprise

Postgraduate Certificate/Postgraduate Diploma/MA

The MA in Film and Screen Enterprise offers an exciting opportunity to ‘re-view’ the production, consumption and social impact of moving image cultures, industries and creative practices in the twenty-first century.

This innovative and interdisciplinary course will embrace the personal, local, digital, global and technological possibilities and platforms for screen media cultures. The course is for those interested in engaging with the history, development, consumption and creativity required in the production of screen media in all its forms, from film through to mobile video phones. Students will gain a clearer understanding of how screen cultures operate, from the production culture of industries to fan cultures.

Graduates of this course will examine the rapidly changing landscape of screen media in local, national, and international cultures. Students will be able to identify the possibilities and opportunities for innovative and entrepreneurial activities using the screen as an interface. These may be private, public, commercial or educational, such as Hollywood cinema, on demand entertainment, web-based media and gaming.

The delivery of the course draws upon a diverse but connected team of academics and industry experts of communications, digital creativity, journalism, animation, cultural studies, popular music, creative enterprise, film, television and community media. It is closely aligned with the research and scholarly activity of the Faculty’s Research Centres.

The teaching will be through lectures, seminars and tutorials as well as practical workshops and workplace learning. There will be close links with the creative industries fostered by opportunities for students to take work placements, and through the involvement of industry practitioners in teaching, assessment, feedback and advice.

The course will involve active and participatory methods that critique and apply theories around screen cultures. Indicative key areas of investigation will be creativities for the screen, cultures of viewing, digital economy, global media corporations, community media, entrepreneurship and Web 2.0. Students will produce an MA Project on a related subject that can be theoretical, theory/practice or professional in focus..

Some of our modules

Screen Theories
Animated Media
Screen Identities
Media and Creative Industries
Entrepreneurship in the Creative Industries
Writing for the Screen
Festivals Management

Staff Profile

Dr Justin Crouch
Course Leader

Justin has an MPhil in History, Film and Television and wrote his PhD on avant-garde animation, focusing on debates around popular culture and distribution practices. He is a member of the Centre for the Study of Film and Screen Cultures with particular interests in cinema and sound, animation as an art form and commercial enterprise, gaming culture, and new developments in screen media. He is currently researching for a book on media and creative industries.

Benefits

Working with published media academics and industry experts of media and screen cultures
Includes theory/practice work in small-group environment
Use of state-of-the-art Media Centre for media production work