MA Film & Screen Studies

You should have (or expect to be awarded) an undergraduate degree of at least upper second class standard in a relevant/related subject.

You might also be considered for some programmes if you aren’t a graduate or your degree is in an unrelated field, but have relevant experience and can show that you have the ability to work at postgraduate level.

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Goldsmiths offers a range of financial support including postgraduate scholarships, bursaries and fee waivers. These are awarded based on a variety of criteria, for example academic achievements or personal circumstances.

Our graduates go on to work in areas such as programming and curating, film and video distribution, and film and television criticism, but many also create their own careers. 20% of our graduates pursue PhD degrees.

The MA offers two pathways: 

MA Film and Screen Studies: Moving Image Studies Pathway 

This pathway explores new critical approaches that address the currency of moving image media in today’s global context – their aesthetics, technology and politics. It seeks to extend the boundaries for studying moving images by considering a wider range of media and introducing students to a wider range of approaches for investigating moving images’ past and present. 

MA Film and Screen Studies: Media Arts Pathway 

This pathway explores these emerging experimental practices of image making and criticism. Students on this pathway are encouraged not just to study but to curate and critique past, present and future media arts by building exhibitions and visual essays of their own. Short practical workshops will enable students to make the most of the skills you bring into the course. 

The MA consists of: 

• two core modules 60 credits in total comprising one shared and one pathway-specific core module 
• option modules to the value of 60 credits 
• a dissertation 60 credits (on the Media Arts pathway up to 50% of the dissertation can be submitted in audiovisual form) 

Core modules 

• Archaeology of the Moving Image 15 credits (both pathways) 
• Politics of the Audiovisual 15 credits (Moving Image Studies Pathway) 
• Experimental Media 30 credits or 15 credits (Media Arts pathway) 

Option modules 

We offer a wide range of option modules each year.