Film Festival Studies (894P4)

30 credits, Level 7 (Masters)

Autumn teaching

This module introduces you to the study of film festivals, a recent subfield in film studies. It will provide you with an overview of conceptual and methodological issues associated with this subfield, potentially including:

• the history of film festivals
• film festival typologies and organisation
• film festival programming
• film festivals as public events
• film festivals and the cultural economy.

The module will use CineCity, Brighton’s oldest film festival, as a live case study. As part of the module, you’ll have the opportunity to hear from the festival’s manager and programmers, attend screenings and volunteer at the event.

 

Contact hours and workload

This module is approximately 300 hours of work. This breaks down into about 20 hours of contact time and about 280 hours of independent study. The University may make minor variations to the contact hours for operational reasons, including timetabling requirements.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2024/25. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.

We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.