The Film and Visual Culture Department at the University of Aberdeen offers students a rigorous training in the history and theory of the moving image, as well as the shifting terrain of twenty-first century visual culture. We take a set of foundational questions—What is film? What is cinema? What is visual culture?—as sites of ongoing critical exploration and technological change. In research and teaching at both the undergraduate and post-graduate levels, Film and Visual Culture combines the close analysis of visual objects and artefacts—analogue and digital, moving and still, underground and mainstream—with theories of visual representation, production, and circulation.
At the undergraduate level, we offer Single and Joint Honours degrees. At the post-graduate level, we offer a taught Master's degree in Visual Culture, as well as a PhD in Film and Visual Culture. Further details are linked on this page. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.