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Shaun of the Dead Single Film Study

vikiwalden | Wednesday November 08, 2017

Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Horror, Edgar Wright, Comedy, A Level, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis

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Contexts

Context of Production

Films are shaped by the contexts in which they are produced. They can therefore be understood in more depth by placing them within two important contextual frames. The first involves considering the broader contexts of a film at the time when it was produced – its social, cultural and political contexts, either current or historical. The second involves a consideration of a film’s institutional context, including the important contextual factors affecting production such as finance and available technology.

Every film reflects the concerns of its time, the particular way of looking at the world in that culture, that society, that time. To fully understand a film, you need to know something of the era that spawned it. As you will have already considered in your Edusites Core Units film is very much a cultural artifact, a reflection of the society that created and watched it. Each film is influenced by all of the films that have gone before it - the collective consciousness of how we ‘look’ at a film - and will have specific conventions that…


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