Film and Television Studies and Modern Languages

Film and television studies alongside modern languages is a combination that opens up the analysis of moving image media across linguistic and cultural boundaries. Film and television studies examines how screen media tell stories, construct meaning, and shape the ways in which audiences understand the world, drawing on the tools of narrative theory, cultural analysis, genre study, and film history. Modern languages takes you inside another culture and literary tradition, developing the linguistic proficiency and cultural understanding to engage with that culture's cinema, television, and media on its own terms rather than only through translation.

At the University of Exeter this three-year programme includes a sandwich year, a year abroad, and work placement experience, giving your studies a strong professional and international dimension. The course makes use of the resources of the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum, one of the most significant collections of film ephemera and memorabilia in the UK, allowing you to engage with the material culture of cinema as well as its texts and theories. You will develop both your language skills and your critical understanding of screen media, studying films and television in your chosen language as well as in English, and engaging with the critical theory that film and television studies draws on.

The year abroad provides immersive experience in another country's media culture.

Graduates from film and television studies with modern languages work in broadcasting, film production, arts journalism and criticism, cultural institutions, international distribution, education, and the creative industries. Language skills significantly extend the range of professional opportunities available, opening doors in international co-production, subtitling and dubbing, festival programming, and cross-cultural media research. Further study at postgraduate level in film studies, cultural studies, or modern languages is a common path for those with an appetite for advanced research, while vocational routes into the screen industries are pursued by others.