English Literature and Film & Visual Culture

English literature and film and visual culture is a combination that brings together two disciplines concerned with how meaning is made, communicated, and experienced through different artistic and cultural forms. English literature develops close reading, critical analysis, and engagement with the richness of writing in English across centuries and cultures. Film and visual culture extends those critical tools into the study of moving images, visual media, and the broader landscape of contemporary visual culture, asking how cinema, photography, television, and digital media communicate, represent, and shape our understanding of the world.

This three-year, full-time programme at Liverpool Hope is situated in a city with a thriving cultural scene that provides a stimulating context for studying literature and visual culture. The programme includes a placement year and a year abroad, both of which give you the opportunity to develop professionally and to engage with literary and visual cultures in different national settings. You will study literature across historical periods and genres alongside film history, theory, and the analysis of visual media, developing the critical vocabulary and interpretive skills needed to engage rigorously with both written and visual texts.

Graduates of this combination pursue careers across the cultural sector, education, media, publishing, and the creative industries. Journalism, film criticism, arts administration, education, publishing, broadcasting, and content production are common destinations. The analytical and communication skills developed by studying both literature and visual culture are broadly applicable, and the practical experience of the placement year and the international perspective of the year abroad strengthen graduates' profiles for competitive roles.

Further postgraduate study in English, film studies, media, or cultural studies is a natural extension for those who wish to develop specialist expertise or pursue academic careers.