Media and Film & TV

Media and film and television studies together examine the most powerful and pervasive forms of modern communication. Media studies provides the critical and theoretical frameworks for understanding how communication systems are organised, how they produce and circulate meaning, and how audiences engage with content across a rapidly changing landscape of platforms and formats. Film and television studies brings close critical attention to specific visual and narrative forms, asking how moving image texts are constructed, what they mean, and how they function within the industrial and cultural contexts of their production and reception.

Nottingham Trent University's part-time Media and Film and TV programme combines these two analytical traditions in a flexible mode of study suited to students managing other commitments alongside their academic work. Studying part time allows you to engage critically with media in a way that connects to your own experience of consuming and potentially producing it, and many students find that their existing familiarity with film and television culture provides a useful starting point for more formal critical engagement. The programme includes a sandwich element and a work placement, which give you structured professional experience in a media-related context, valuable for connecting theoretical understanding to industry realities.

You will engage with media theory, cultural studies, film history, genre analysis, documentary practice, television form and industry, and the digital transformation of both sectors.

You will develop skills in close reading of texts, critical argument, research, and the kind of analytical writing that the humanities and social sciences demand, alongside practical awareness of how media industries work.

Graduates pursue careers in journalism, broadcasting, content production, digital media, communications, public relations, education, and arts administration. Many also go on to postgraduate study in media, film, or cultural studies for those who wish to deepen their critical engagement with the field.