An Introduction to Victorian Film

[smallhobbit]

I'm a great fan of FutureLearn, which is an free online series of courses from some of the major universities.  I've just seen they're running a course which last for three weeks starting 2 September, called The Living Picture Craze: An Introduction to Victorian Film.  It's being run by the BFI (British Film Institute) and is designed for anyone with a passion for film and Victorian and British history.  It will be looking at the beginnings of the film industry from 1895 to 1901.

It looks like it should be interesting, since they will be using some of the BFI's collection of Victorian films, so I have joined the course. 

Comments

[senmut]

Ooh nice.

[003_5]

wow, sounds great!

[sarahthecoat]

Cool!

[rachelindeed]

Interesting! Do you have to arrange to be online at particular times during the week to participate in the class, or is the material available for you to access at your own pace?

[smallhobbit]

The material is available to access as soon as the course goes live and then for I think it's 2 weeks after the end (so for a 3 week course it's available for 5). Sometimes, if there's an end of week review it doesn't go up until near the end of the particular week, but otherwise you can progress as quickly or as slowly as you like.

[mightymads]

Thank you for sharing this! I signed up too :D

[smallhobbit]

That's great!

[smallhobbit]

I hope it may be useful.