Media, Film and Cultural Studies
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Profile
Research Degrees
Postgraduate Enquiries
MPhil/PhD
June Rye
tel: +44(0)1524 592497
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Taught Courses
e-mail:
j.rye@lancaster.ac.uk
MA in Film and Cultural Studies
MA in Media and Cultural Studies
Website
MA in Literary and Cultural Studies
www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/cultres
Number of Postgraduate Students
Location
27
County South
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Director
Charlie Gere
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The study of culture at Lancaster covers a large and diverse range of
work in the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and Management. The
Department provides a home for the interdisciplinary study of
culture at Lancaster University. This collaborative ethos is widely
admired outside Lancaster where it is recognised as one of the
factors which contributes to Lancaster’s overall strengths in teaching
and research.
Cultural research at Lancaster is distinguished by the extension of
established theories into new domains of inquiry. It is concerned
with contemporary culture and cultural history from the standpoint
of cultural theory. It attends to the changing nature of
contemporary life, to contemporary culture’s representation of itself,
Dr Charlie Gere
to its different social and spatial scales, from the local to the global;
and to its technologies. It also concerns itself with the everyday, and
Reader in New Media Research
with cultural texts and their uses.
Dr Gere’s main research interest is the cultural effects and We have our own programme of seminars, workshops and
meanings of technology and media, particularly in relation to conferences, inviting national and international speakers to
art and philosophy. Lancaster, which are open to all our postgraduates. We pursue
funded research in culture from public and private bodies and
‘It is impossible to overestimate the importance of our media produce a quarterly journal, Journal for Cultural Research, published
Media, Film and Cultural Studies
technologies or the massive effects they are having on our
by Taylor & Francis. We run a full postgraduate programme with
everyday lives. Studying these effects is not just extremely
research degrees in Cultural Research and taught MAs in Media and
interesting but, arguably, also very important in terms of our
Cultural Studies, and Film and Cultural Studies. PhD students have
own lives and those of future generations.”
an opportunity to teach on the Media, Film and Cultural Studies
undergraduate programme in their second and third years of study.
“The Department is vibrant, collaborative and interdisciplinary.
Top media and film scholars from across the world study areas
TAUGHT COURSES
such as the dominance of American popular culture and
sexuality and embodiment.”
MA in Film and Cultural Studies
“Recently there has been a significant investment in Media and
Director of Studies: Bruce Bennett.
Film teaching at the University including the facilities of the
Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 months part-time.
University’s new Centre for Media and Performance. It has
Entry Requirements: An upper second class honours degree, or its
specialist equipment like a new 22-machine multimedia lab,
equivalent, in a relevant discipline.
screening rooms and several Digital video editing suites.”
Assessment: Combination of coursework and dissertation.
IELTS: 6.5
“We are very proud of the Department’s growing international
reputation with students from as far afield as China applying
Funding: AHRC Awards - see also page 196.
Arts and Social Sciences:
for places. We have recently added new courses and continue
Further Information:
www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/cultres
to offer a range of exciting and innovative courses and research
opportunities in the areas of media, film and cultural studies.”
This programme explores the key debates and issues in film theory
and cultural analysis, ranging from classic film theory texts through
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