Italian with Film Studies

Italian with Film Studies is a programme that pairs one of Europe's most expressive and culturally rich languages with a critical discipline devoted to the most powerful visual storytelling medium of the modern era. Italian gives you access to a civilisation of extraordinary depth, from Dante and Boccaccio through the Renaissance painters to the twentieth-century writers Calvino, Morante, and Pasolini, alongside a contemporary culture of remarkable creative energy in literature, design, fashion, and cinema. Film studies develops your capacity to analyse moving images as texts, examining how films construct meaning through cinematography, editing, performance, sound, and narrative, and situating those choices within the industrial, historical, and cultural contexts of their production.

The University of Warwick's four-year full-time Italian with Film Studies programme is taught within a department with research strengths in both areas. Your language study will develop Italian proficiency to an advanced level, covering spoken communication, reading, writing, and translation, while engaging with Italian literary and cultural history across different periods and genres. Italian cinema, one of the richest national cinemas in the world, is a natural point of connection between the two subjects: directors from Rossellini and Visconti to Fellini and Bertolucci have produced work that is central to world film history and that rewards both linguistic and cinematic analysis.

The programme includes a sandwich year and a work placement, which provide professional experience in a relevant field before graduation, strengthening both your language skills in context and your professional preparation.

A typical entry tariff of 152 points reflects the programme's academic demands at Warwick.

Graduates pursue careers in translation and interpreting, film and television, publishing, journalism, arts administration, cultural diplomacy, international business in Italian-speaking markets, and academia. Postgraduate routes include Italian studies, film studies, and translation.