There are three core areas of study which students will consider in relation to eleven feature length productions. These are:

1. The key elements of film form: cinematography, mise-en-sce??ne, editing, sound and performance
2. Meaning and response: how film functions as both a medium of representation and as an aesthetic medium
3. The contexts of film: social, cultural, political, historical and institutional, including production

The case studies analysed include:

Under the Skin, Amy, Blade Runner, Carol, House of Flying Daggers. Beasts of the Southern Wild, Vertigo, Spies, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and Pulp Fiction.