Film and Literature

Course Structure

1. [\'Dissertation\', \'Research Methods in Literary and Cultural Analysis\', \'Critical Moments in the Theory and History of Film\', \'African American Literature (optional)\', \'Documentary and the Avant-garde: Film, Video, Digital (optional)\', \'Early Modern to Eighteenth Century Literature (optional)\', \'Film and Video Production Workshop (optional)\', \'Georgian and Romantic Literature and Drama (optional)\', \'Literature and Performance in the Modern City (optional)\', \'Literature and the Environmental Imagination: 19th to 21st Century Poetry and Prose (optional)\', \'Memory Maps: Practices in Psychogeography (optional)\', \'Oulipian Practice (optional)\', \'Poetic Practice (optional)\', \'Sea of Lentils: Modernity, Literature, and Film in the Caribbean (optional)\', \'The New Nature Writing (optional)\', \'The Novel (optional)\', \'The Wild East (optional)\', \'US Nationalism and Regionalism (optional)\', \'Writing Magic (optional)\', \'Writing the Novel (optional)\', \'"There is a Continent Outside My Window" : United States and Caribbean Literatures in Dialogue (optional)\', \'Adaptation (optional)\', \'Advanced Film and Industry: Production and Industry (optional)\', \'Five modules are followed over the autumn and spring terms\', \'Weekly film screenings and discussions of key cinematic and literary texts\', \'Practical film production workshops\', \'Seminars may include introductions by your tutor, presentations by you, and discussion based on a programme of reading\', \'Visiting scholars are invited to speak about their research\', \'Four essays of 4,000-5,000 words, usually combining a creative piece and critical commentary\', \'There is normally considerable freedom for you to choose the topics of your essays\', \'A reflective piece on research methods\', \'You produce a creative practice or theoretical dissertation project\']