film studies in the United Kingdom

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any university recommendations? i'm so confused to the point of giving up the idea of going to university all together.
which university has a great film studies programme, but also offers lots of bursaries for students not only from the UK as i'm from Estonia (new EU country) and need all the financial aid i can get. i'm looking for a uni that has that "pay when you earn, not when you learn" programme (you have to pay the tutiton fees when you've already finished school and are earning more than 15,000£ a year).

― vapšee pohhui (helterskelter), Saturday, 3 December 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

i'm looking for a uni that has that "pay when you earn, not when you learn" programme

In Britain? Nowadays? I'm not an expert, but I really don't fancy your chances.

― JimD (JimD), Saturday, 3 December 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

there is atleast one university in the UK that allows you to pay the fee back later and that is actively seeking students from my region, but i really rather wouldn't live in Luton.

― vapšee pohhui (helterskelter), Saturday, 3 December 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

For Film Studies you go to Warwick or UEA, which is where I went.

― Soledad (nordicskilla), Saturday, 3 December 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

Try Kent. I'm there and the film studies department is thriving. Also, I know they take on a LOT of overseas students.

― Hairy Asshurt (Toaster), Saturday, 3 December 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

king's london has a new course soon.

but seriously, fuck a academic film studies.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 5 December 2005 09:21 (twenty years ago)

more like they should stop robbing us of our taxes and handing out mickey mouse degrees to lazy students lamoes lolamirite?

― http://ilx.wh3rd.net/thread.php?msgid=6114623 (bato), Monday, 5 December 2005 09:26 (twenty years ago)

Presumably fuck a English Lit and all Cultural Studies courses too, right? In fact, fuck a Arts Degree why not?

― Amity Wong (noodle vague), Monday, 5 December 2005 09:28 (twenty years ago)

OTM

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 5 December 2005 09:29 (twenty years ago)

Well it could only improve the quality of journalism.

― Amity Wong (noodle vague), Monday, 5 December 2005 09:32 (twenty years ago)

urinalism

― lolamirite (bato), Monday, 5 December 2005 09:34 (twenty years ago)

fuck off

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 5 December 2005 09:35 (twenty years ago)

Don't listen to Enrique about this kind of thing, he's got some incomprehensible bitter chip on his shoulder.

For Film Studies you go to Warwick or UEA, which is where I went.

And I went to Warwick, and did film studies (albeit as my minor), and the dept was extremely good. It's a wicked place, too, but I don't know if you'd get funding.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 5 December 2005 11:26 (twenty years ago)

no i don't have an incomprehensible chip on my shoulder; i have a draft history of film studies in the uk since 1960 on my laptop... and i'm doing an mphil/phd in film.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 5 December 2005 11:34 (twenty years ago)

Doesn't that make it incomprehensible though?

Having said that, if your experience makes you advise people not to do it then that's fair enough. My only reason for advising people not to do it (and I am being honest here) is that it was certainly the most academically challenging humanities subject I studied in my admittedly basic academic career.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 5 December 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

i reckon it can be challenging enough in certain fields -- you'll probably get to learn some tendentious and outdated readings of psychoanalysis and lingusitics, for example -- but otherwise i don't see the point. certainly if you actually enjoy watching films, then doing a film studs course doesn't make any sense. not many tutors keep an interest going in modern cinema. in a sense then it's no worse than doing eng lit, but facing facts, whereas eng lit people make a kind of world 'out there' for whatever unfair reasons, film studs grads do not -- no-one will understand why you made an academic subject out of a hobby.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 5 December 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)

warwick and norwich are the best tho, yeah. it's warwick's ginette vincendeau who's new prof at KCL.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 5 December 2005 12:08 (twenty years ago)

Oh, is she? I got in trouble once because she thought me and a friend had plagiarised her or something!! It turned out I made a mistake in transcribing the authors of two texts - I credited them with each other's work, only one of them was actually her so, unsurprisingly she spotted it. Problem was I'd given the text (with wrong credit) to my mate, who had also transcribed the mistake in hnis bibliography!

Fortunately our essays, despite using the same sources, were radically different, and with my tutor J0se Arroy0 intervening on my behalf it was all sorted out. She was not very nice about it, though.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 5 December 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)

Estonian of course you could work while yous tudy at Birkbeck, the dept is highly thought of but rests a touch on titan status of some of its academics which as mentioned above often means dodgy readings of out of date psychoanalysis (HELLO LACAN!!!)

Much of what is also said above bout F.Studs is true, but I enjoyed it so much that I am toying with a PhD (which I have been toying with for some time). I think its a bit reductionist to say "if you like film, don't do film studies" as if you take charge of the teaching you can wake then up that there is more interesting stuff in film that 1930's soviet mush. Unless you like 1930's soviet mush.

That said, I did to my MA Film dissertation on the Theatre so...

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 5 December 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)

DO IT PTEE.

I NEED BACK-UP.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 5 December 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

My sister did film studies at Manchester Metropolitan University. I've no idea how well the course is regarded, but I know she really liked it and Manchester is a great place to live.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 5 December 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

It won't be back-up, it would be competition.

Seriously though, e-mail me off list if you want back-up. I can bitch about academic departments like nobodies biz.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 5 December 2005 12:55 (twenty years ago)

we shd definitely comptee.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 5 December 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

TO: SCREEN
SUBJECT: IN UR BASE KILLING YR DUDES

― Real Goths Don't Wear Black (Enrique), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

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