Master of Arts - Film, Television, and Moving Image

Program Description

The innovative MA in Film and Television builds on its prestigious heritage as the longest running degree programme of its kind in the UK. It aims to equip students with wide-ranging skills, knowledge and critical awareness to meet career aspirations in sectors in which moving images play a central role. The curriculum incorporates an exciting variety of learning and teaching activities designed to foster a capacity for researching and rigorously analysing different aspects of film, television and moving images. Students will have the opportunity to develop key skills for communicating about and with moving images across a range of contexts and platforms. Students can choose to have a broad-based learning experience in film, television and moving image, or they can specialise in moving image curation and screenwriting via suggested pathways.

The core teaching team consists of members of the College of Design, Creative and Digital Industries. The course has close links with the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM), the leading research centre in the UK for arts and design, whose members include internationally renowned filmmakers, film and television theorists and historians, and moving image artists and curators. Westminster combines research-enhanced teaching with classes delivered by film and television industry and moving image art professionals, in order to make sure that students develop the skill sets and the full range of critical awareness that is in demand and to deliver an exciting learning experience.