Drama and Film & Visual Culture

Drama and film with visual culture is a combination that brings together the study and practice of theatre with critical engagement with cinema and the broader visual arts, examining how live performance, moving image, and visual culture intersect and diverge as forms of human expression and social meaning-making. Drama training develops your understanding of performance, text, space, and the collaborative creative processes through which theatrical work is made. Film and visual culture adds the analytical frameworks needed to understand how moving images work, how cinema has developed as an art form and industry, and how visual objects more broadly are constructed, circulated, and interpreted.

At Liverpool Hope University, this three-year full-time degree explores performance in a city with one of the UK's most vibrant theatrical and cultural scenes. You will engage with the origins and history of drama while developing your own creative practice and refining your artistic voice, and you will develop critical skills for engaging with film and visual art that complement and enrich your practical work. The programme includes a sandwich year, a year abroad option, and a work placement, giving you structured opportunities to develop professional experience in theatrical, film, or arts contexts and to broaden your perspective through time in a different country or institution.

Graduates from this kind of programme go on to a wide range of careers in the arts, creative industries, and education. Many work in theatre as performers, directors, stage managers, or production coordinators. Others work in film and television, in arts journalism, in cultural programming, or in education at secondary or higher level.

The critical and creative skills the degree develops, including the ability to analyse visual and performative texts, to work collaboratively on creative projects, and to communicate about culture clearly, are also valued in communications, marketing, and the broader creative economy. Postgraduate study in performance, film, or cultural studies is a natural next step. The typical entry tariff is 104 points.