Acting and Film & Visual Culture
Acting and film and visual culture is a degree that trains you as a performer while also developing your critical and analytical understanding of the moving image and the broader visual world. Acting is a craft and a discipline, requiring you to develop technical skills in voice, movement and text work alongside the personal and imaginative capabilities that bring characters and stories to life on stage and screen. Film and visual culture provides the intellectual frameworks to understand cinema, television, photography and other visual media as art forms and cultural institutions, asking how images make meaning and how they shape the way we see the world.
At Liverpool Hope University this three-year, full-time programme equips you with the skills, knowledge and creative confidence to thrive in performance and to engage critically with the visual media landscape. You will work in studio and performance settings developing your acting practice across theatre, film and screen contexts, and engage with the history and theory of cinema and visual culture in seminars and research. The programme includes a sandwich year, a year abroad and work placements, giving you direct experience in professional performance, media or cultural settings and an international perspective on the performing arts and film industries.
Liverpool's vibrant arts scene and strong heritage in performance and popular culture provides an enriching environment in which to develop your practice.
Graduates work as professional actors across theatre, film, television and digital media, and the visual culture component opens additional paths in film criticism and journalism, arts programming, cultural education, content creation, community arts and media production. Many graduates develop portfolio careers combining performing with teaching, community arts work, writing and other creative activities. Some continue to postgraduate study in performance, film, theatre or creative practice, building on the undergraduate foundation.