MPhil in Film and Screen Studies

Lent term Modules 2022/23

Each year, during the summer months before term starts, students are asked to pre-select two modules. The list of modules offered can change from year to year depending on the availability of academic staff. Students are asked for back-up choices just in case modules are under or over-subscribed, but the Faculty endeavour to offer first preferences where possible. Please note the below modules may be subject to change.  

Students are advised that, in cases where numbers are very small, a module may be suspended. Where a module does go ahead with a small number of students (typically one or two students), those students can expect a reduction to the relevant contact hours (normally 6 sessions will be reduced to 4). 

Some, but not all, of the modules advertised may be borrowable by students from other Departments/Faculties, subject to availability and approval from both sides.  Numbers may be limited, and students enrolled on the Film MPhil take priority.  Queries should be directed to the MMLL Postgraduate Office on postgraduatestudies@mmll.cam.ac.uk.

• FR Contemporary: Modern and Contemporary French and Francophone Culture: Articulations of the Real
• FSS Abstraction: Cinematic Abstraction
• FSS Arab Cinema: Mediating Memory, Identity, and Political Struggle in Arab Cinema
• FSS Digital Forms
• FSS Ecologies: Ecologies and Documentary Moving Images
• FSS Feminisms: Feminisms and Moving Images
• FSS Historiographies: Global Film and Media Historiographies
• FSS Queer: Spaces of Queer Cinema
• GE Modern Thought: Enlightenment and its Critics from Kant to Heidegger
• ID City: The Modern City
• IT 20th Century: New Commitments: Literature, Cinema and Culture in Italy 1960 - present
• SP Film: Culture, history, and politics in Spanish cinema from 1939 to the present  
• ​​SP LA Cinema:  The Politics of Representation in Latin American Visual Culture