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Film and Television Studies

Options in Film Studies

There are a range of options in Film and Television Studies that are open to students not enrolled on our Film Studies or Film and Literature degrees. Some of these modules can be taken by any student at the appropriate stage in their degree, while others will require you to have previously taken certain modules.

Dedicated Outside Option Modules

The following two modules are specifically designed for students outside of our degrees in Film Studies and Film and Literature. These modules are also prerequisites for a number of our more specialised modules-

Open Modules

These modules are available to all students, subject to availability

  • FI210 Queer Screens 15 CATS Term 2

While the following modules have no formal pre-requisites, students admission to the course will be on a case by case basis. Please contact SCAPVCenquiries@warwick.ac.uk for more information

  • FI336 Science Fiction Theory as Film 15 CATS Term 2
  • Post-Colonial Film 15 CATS Term 2

Modules with Prerequisites

These modules are available to students who have completed the appropriate prerequisite modules, subject to availability:

Modules available to students who have taken FI348 Film Analysis and Methods and/or FI352 Film History and Methods.

Year 2

  • FI204 World Cinema 15 CATS Term 1
  • FI249 Hollywood Cinema: History, Theory, Industry 15 CATS Term 2
  • Fi208 Silent Cinema 15 CATS Term 1
  • Fi262 Transnational Action Cinema (Second Year Option) 15 CATS Term 1
  • Fi347 Film and Television Stardom 15 CATS Term 1
  • Fi209 Television History and Criticism 15 CATS Term 2
  • Fi358 The Art of Animation 15 CATS Term 2
  • Film Seriality and Franchising 15 CATS Term 1

Year 3 / Finalists

  • FI362 Transnational Action Cinema (Finalist Option) 15 CATS Term 1

Modules available to students who have taken FI204 World Cinema and/or FI249 Hollywood Cinema

Year 3 / Finalists

  • Fi355 Film Aesthetics I 15 CATS
  • FI354 Film Aesthetics II 15 CATS
  • FI325 Horror and the Gothic in Film and Television
  • Film Seriality and Franchising 15 CATS Term 1
  • Contemporary Latin American Cinema 15 CATS Term 2