As the first UNESCO World City of Literature, home of the Edinburgh International Festival and a major cultural hub, Edinburgh is the ideal place for the study of intermediality, that is, the interrelations between different art forms and their signification.

University of Edinburgh's taught Masters programme draws on world-class teaching and research expertise across media, from literature to film, music, painting, photography and visual culture more widely.

The programme will make students conversant with intermedial theory and equip them with the critical tools and historical background for understanding and analyzing a wide range of intermedial phenomena across different periods and cultures, with an emphasis on the modern and contemporary period.

Students will be encouraged to develop their own area of interest and expertise, with specially-designed option courses offering a detailed focus on the interplay between different art forms in, for instance, film adaptation, photo-literature, poetry and music, the graphic novel and modern screen cultures. This leads to a final dissertation or a practice-based project accompanied by a reflective essay, pursuing their research interests further and developing their research skills.