Film Studies

Film Studies at University of Hull is a dynamic new teaching and research unit, which offers PhD research degrees in a range of fields, including television, American cinema, animation, horror and adaptation studies.

Our research Film Studies Film Studies degrees at University of Hull University of Hull are supervised by academic staff who are experts in their field. Film Studies staff contribute to television and radio programmes on film, and have spoken at the National Film Theatre, and at universities across Europe and North America.

Features 

• The unit runs a regular programme of film and media research seminars throughout the year and has hosted an international conference to celebrate 75 years of Ealing Studios. 

• The University recently invested £9.5m in transforming Middleton Hall into a world class entertainment venue which includes one of the region’s most advanced cinemas with state-of-the-art surround sound. 

Curriculum: 

• American cinema
• animation studies
• authorship
• film history
• gender issues and film
• horror cinema
• narration, style and aesthetics
• television history
• television studies
• Horror and apocalyptic cinema
• Animation studies
• British television, national cinemas (in particular British and German cinema), costume drama, adaptation
• Film and television narration, style, analytical philosophy and authorship, characters and point of view in fiction