Introduction
The School of Communications is excited announce our new MA in Contemporary Screen Industries. Building on over thirty years of expertise in research and teaching in film and television studies, the new Masters Degree adds a practice dimension to the School's established theory-focused screen modules.
The new MA in Contemporary Screen Industries will:
•provide students with an intensive and rigorous grounding in film and television studies from a contemporary cultural perspective
•explore the inner workings of Irish and international film and television industries from a political and economic perspective
•allow students to combine theoretical perspectives with extensive practice-based modules on content creation for the screen industries
Programme
This programme is offered full-time over one year and part-time over two years. Students take a combination of core and option modules in areas such as Film Theory and History; the Politics and Economics of the Screen Industries; Audio and Sound Design; Moving Image, Screenwriting; Television Drama; Documentary in Film and TV; Media Audiences and Consumption; Sexuality and Popular Culture; Research Methods. All students complete either a Dissertation or a Production Project as the final element of their assessment.
Why Do this programme?
•To provide students with an intensive and rigorous grounding in film and television studies from a contemporary cultural perspective.
•To analyse the impact on Ireland of audiovisual policy in Europe and 'national cinema' developments in Europe, Australia and developing countries.
•To understand how and why Ireland and the Irish have appeared as they do on screen.
•To gain an insight into the inner workings of the Irish film and television industries and how this relates to the increasingly globalised international audiovisual arena.
•To bring critical perspectives into line with recent major developments in film studies, which have emphasised film-making and television production as social and economic institutions.
Why DCU
•The course is unique in that it treats film and television simultaneously, recognising the web of connections between the two screen industries.
•The course is also unique in Ireland in its treatment of film and television as both art forms and industries. Filmic and televisual texts are thus studied as texts and as commodities.
•The course also offers practical skills-based modules on digital video and audio production, and in screen-writing.
•The MA in Film and Television is taught through one of the handful of Irish university departments which is exclusively focused on the study of media and communications. As a consequence our modules are taught by specialists in the field using state-of-the-art production technologies, teaching methodologies and course materials.