Film Studies PhD

Program Overview

This degree program explores global dimensions of language-based study, including cultures and societies outside of Europe, migrant and transnational cultures, multilingualism, and sociolinguistics. It offers research strengths in histories and memories, especially representations of war and conflict. Students have access to excellent research facilities and research groups, as well as involvement in research centers.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

Our research is characterised by an interest in the global dimensions of language-based study, including Hispanic, Lusophone and Francophone cultures and societies outside of Europe; migrant and transnational cultures in Europe; multilingualism; sociolinguistics; world cinema; the cultural impacts of European expansion and colonialism; global Black Studies; and the processes of translation and transculturation implicit in all those encounters. We equally have significant research strengths in histories and memories, specifically in themes relating to representations of war and conflict in different international contexts. Several colleagues are developing engagement with digital transformations in research practices and themes, employing new technologies in the presentation of their research on periods from the Middle Ages to the contemporary world.

Other:

• Research themes:
• Post New Wave French cinema
• Political cinema in France post-1968
• The interaction of film and theatre
• The multilingual dimension of European cinema
• Contemporary and post-war German literature and film
• Italian crime film
• Brazilian cinema
• Latin American women film-makers
• Movement in Latin American cinema
• Cinematic realism
• Feminism in Spanish cinema and television
• Memory in Spanish cinema and television
• Contemporary world cinema
• Slow cinema.
• Facilities: The University of Liverpool has excellent research facilities within the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences.
• Research groups: Most research-active colleagues are affiliated to one or more of our MLC research groups:
• Image, Sound and Performance and Conflict
• Memory and Heritage
• Place, Space and Belonging
• Media Histories: From Manuscript to Digital
• Research centres: MLC colleagues are also closely involved in the following research centres:
• Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS)
• Eighteenth-Century Worlds Research Centre (ECW)
• Liverpool Doctoral College: As a postgraduate researcher at the University of Liverpool, you will become part of the Liverpool Doctoral College.

Fees The fees below reflect one year of study during the 2024/25 academic year PhD Duration UK students International Students Full time 2-4 years £4,786 Faculty of Health and Life Sciences £29,750 (Band A)^ Faculty of Science and Engineering £29,750 (Band A)^ or £23,400 (Band B) Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences £23,400 (Band B) Part time 4-6 years £2,393 Faculty of Health and Life Sciences £14,900 (Band A)^ Faculty of Science and Engineering £14,900 (Band A)^ or £11,700 (Band B) Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences £11,700 (Band B) The fees stated in the table above exclude potential research support fees also known as ‘bench fees’. You will be notified of any fee which may apply in your offer letter.

• Please note that if you are undertaking a PhD within the Faculty of Science and Engineering the fee you pay, Band A or Band B, will reflect the nature of your research project.
Some research projects incur a higher fee than others e.g. if you are required to undertake laboratory work. You will be informed of the fee for your programme in your offer letter. ^ Self-funded, full-time international students studying a PhD programme classified as Band A will receive a £2,000 reduction in their fees for the first year only.