Arts and Human Sciences (AHS) Undergraduate Prospectus
BA (Hons)
Location Location
Southwark Southwark
BA (Hons)
Drama and Performance Studies
Duration Duration
Film Studies
3 years (full-time) 3 years (full-time)
Start date Start date
September September
Number of places Number of places
30 25
Arts and Human Sciences Arts and Human Sciences
Course description Career opportunities
Simple timetable info Timetable
Course description Career opportunities
The Drama and Performance Studies The Drama and Performance Studies
Full-time: days only Full-time: days only
Film Studies is an exciting new course Graduates can expect to enter the
course provides a unique programme of course is suitable for anyone considering
How to apply How to apply
that offers a unique and challenging film, media and cultural industries in a
study based on practical and theoretical working professionally within the broad
Via UCAS Via UCAS
combination of film theory, cinema wide range of roles, including film/TV
approaches to the subject of drama and area of theatre and the performing studies and video making practice. production, film curation, journalism,
UCAS code UCAS code
(AHS)
performance in all its forms. The ethos arts industries, and provides a platform
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This course will both develop your public relations and administration.
(AHS)
of the course is to encourage students for working within the contemporary understanding of current film Whilst the course does not seek to
to question the boundaries of theatrical arts in administration, research and
Course contact Course contact
scholarship and provide a creative and provide professional training, the
Robin Deacon Ricardo Domizio
disciplines, by exploring innovative ways production.
Course Director
domizior@lsbu.ac.uk – 020 7815 5816
practical grounding for careers in the intellectual and practical skills and
of creating and thinking about drama
deaconrm@lsbu.ac.uk – 020 7815 8094
TV, film and media industries. abilities developed on the course are
and performance. Progression routes
Typical offer
premium requisites in the media and
Typical offer 160 UCAS Tariff points
to postgraduate study
160 UCAS Tariff points
The focus of the degree is on the creative industries. Former students
In addition to specialist study in Successful graduates of this course may
Applications are also welcomed from those
cultural, aesthetic, political and have gone on to work for Paramount,
contemporary performance in Level chose to study at Masters level or for
Course units without the required qualifications who possess
economic importance of film and this Disney and Metro-Tartan, as well as
Level 1 the life/work skills that would make them suitable
One, students gain an essential the PGCE. Students may also wish to
– Writing, Performance and the Subject to study at this level.
is recognised and elaborated in three careers in teaching and administration.
knowledge of stagecraft and continue studying here at LSBU on our
– Event, Community and the Everyday
distinct areas: studies in world cinema,
dramaturgy through the study of MA Scheme in Creative Media Arts.
– Introduction to Drama and the Stage Course units
the relationship between film and new Progression routes
– Introduction to Theatre Technology Year 1
English and international drama texts. The MA Critical Arts Management,
– Issues of Management: Theatre and – The Rise of Cinema
media, and practical experience of to postgraduate study
Level Two focuses on the professional or the MA Media Writing, would be
Performing Arts – Reading the Screen
digital video production. You will study Successful completion of the course
applications of drama and performance, particularly suitable for graduates from
– Theories of 20th Century Practice – Authorship in Cinema
film texts, film histories and national can lead to postgraduate study at LSBU
Level 2 – Film and Representation
giving the opportunity for a high degree this course.
– Multimedia Performance – Image Analysis
cinemas from a variety of theoretical on the MA Programmes in New Media,
of independence and self-directed
– Systems of Rehearsal – Media Orientations
and interdisciplinary perspectives, and Media Writing, Cultural and Media
learning, culminating in a dissertation Professional contacts/industry links
– Drama into the 20th Century – Theorising Video Practice (practical unit)
develop the critical tools necessary Studies and Critical Arts Management.
– Experimental Practice: Process Year 2
and an advanced independent The use of visiting lecturers from
– Experimental Practice: Product – Verbal into Visual Narratives
for the analysis and understanding of
performance project in Level Three. professional companies and
– Performing Arts in Context – Politics and Film
contemporary film theory and practice Professional contacts/industry links
organisations is integral to the course.
– The Visual Stage – Documentary Theory/Practice (practical unit)
and its connections within wider The course has links with a wide range
Level 3 – Italian Neorealist Cinema
Throughout the course, practical Specialist expertise has included
– Dissertation – Hollywood Cinema
digital culture. of professionals in the film industry.
approaches to a variety of speakers from Battersea Arts Centre,
– Brief-led Project/Collaborative Project – The City, the Subject and the Digital Image
During the course you will be given the
performance modes are explored, Artsadmin, Live Art Development
– Advanced Independent Practice – Popular Indian Cinema and the Emergence
Lectures and seminars are accompanied opportunity to develop a network of
of Bollywood
such as improvisation, live art, political Agency, Arts Council, Colchester Arts
Year 3
by weekly film screenings and you will contacts outside of LSBU.
theatre, physical theatre, and site Centre, Corali Dance Company and
– The British Film Industry
be given the opportunity to develop
specific performance. These practical Chelsea Theatre.
– Representing Gender in Film
transferable skills and aptitudes, Recent guest lecturers
– Third Cinema
elements are placed in the context of
– Art, Technology and Revolution in the
including group presentations and – Nick Broomfield, documentary
rigorous critical analysis and theoretical Recent guest lecturers
20th Century
writing short screenplays and film film-maker
frameworks. Taught by experienced – Baktruppen, Norwegian experimental
– Fascism and Film
production dossiers. You will also be – Deborah Moggach, screenwriter,
– Hong Kong Cinema
practitioners in the field of Drama and theatre company
– Advanced Brief-led Project (practical unit)
given the opportunity to apply your Pride and Prejudice
Performance Studies, the programme – Judith Knight, director (Artsadmin)
– Dissertation
knowledge creatively in practical – Ed Lawrenson, Deputy Editor,
offers a broad range of approaches – Mem Morrison, performance artist video-making modules in both fiction Sight and Sound
to the subject, but applicants should – Luke Wright, performance poet. and documentary film contexts. – Peter Bradshaw, Guardian Film Critic.
note that this course is not designed for
those wishing to undertake vocational For full entry requirements see pages For full entry requirements see pages
actor training. 252 to 253. 252 to 253.
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