Course Overview
The MSt in Film Aesthetics equips you with the skills and knowledge necessary for analysing film as an art form. It concentrates on film criticism, detailed film analysis, film theory and film-philosophy and teaches the history and the contemporary developments in the scholarly literature relating to these aspects. It encourages thoughtful and imaginative engagement with film as a medium and with individual films. The MSt in Film Aesthetics is degree in the humanities run jointly by the faculties of Modern Languages, English, and Philosophy. The course concentrates on film from the point of view of aesthetics, focusing on: the detailed study of film style and form, and the articulation of it in writing - for example, narrative structure, use of camera, colour, performance, sound, music, editing and composition; matters of philosophical aesthetics, and their particular application to film such as value and evaluation, appreciation, ontology, medium, intention, expression, meaning/interpretation, creativity, beauty, metaphor, symbolism, fiction, storytelling, convention, stylistic groupings and histories, emotion, imagination, and the relation between ethics, morality and aesthetics; and classic and contemporary film theory and film-philosophy as they relate to film aesthetics: film specificity, spectatorship, modernism, phenomenology, affect, and the work of film philosophers such as Hugo Munsterberg, Rudolph Arnheim, Gilles Deleuze and Stanley Cavell. Many master's programmes concentrate on historical, cultural, geographical, or political approaches to film and may only contain an aesthetic component. This programme is dedicated to the specialist study of film aesthetics.
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