Film and History with Year Abroad - BA (Hons)

University of Southampton

For movie lovers and history buffs, we offer this exciting and challenging film and history degree with year abroad. You'll examine film from a variety of perspectives: as popular art, big business and as a cultural record. You'll study history and the links between both subjects. A year abroad will enhance your understanding of visual arts and let you experience a new culture. You'll study familiar classics alongside contemporary cinema, and genres including- film noir, horror, science fiction, documentary, animation.Your history modules will cover the development of historical debates, imagining the past, and topics ranging from ancient societies to the war on terror. Our Framing the Past module looks at cinema's relationship with history. You'll study films about the distant past of Greece, Rome or Egypt, up to more recent times, such as heritage films about the British Empire or the Titanic.