Cinema Goes to Work (030P3)

30 credits, Level 7 (Masters)

Spring teaching

This highly topical module gives you the chance to engage with films that represent labour in many forms – from slavery to stardom, from factories to finance – and to situate these films according to relevant critical debates and historical contexts. We consider interfaces between aesthetics, politics and society, which may include:

• comparing art cinema, documentary modes, popular genres and experimental forms
• debates over the uses and limitations of realism
• feminist critiques of domestic workand paid labour
• representations of class, ‘race’, gender and sexuality
• representations of unemployment.

You will also deepen your skills in independent research and advanced contextual and textual analysis.

Contact hours and workload

This module is approximately 300 hours of work. This breaks down into about 22 hours of contact time and about 278 hours of independent study. The University may make minor variations to the contact hours for operational reasons, including timetabling requirements.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2025/26. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.

We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.