Richard Gent | Tuesday March 28, 2023
Categories: Theory, Film Theory, Mexican, Auteur Theory, Social Realism, Research, Amores Perros, World Cinema, Genre, Narrative, Shot Analysis, Audience, Film Analysis, Film Language, Representation, Films & Case Studies, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis, Title Sequences, Key Concepts
Copyright © 2018 Edusites. All rights reserved. Permission granted to reproduce for educational use within the subscribing school only. Copying or lending of any part of this document in any form or by any means to external bodies and / or individuals is prohibited. In studying a film such as Amores Perros, a film that’s widely regarded as a ‘classic’, there’s a wealth of discourse to engage with. Worth noting immediately is that translated into English, the title…
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Rob Miller | Monday June 03, 2013
Categories: EDUQAS A2, EDUQAS A Level, Mexican, Amores Perros, World Cinema, A Level, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis
Key Texts Amores Perros (Love’s A Bitch) 2000 Y Tu Mama También (And Your Mother Too) 2001 Compare some of the stylistic features in the films you have studied discussing how far they make for a distinctive kind of cinema. The study of so-called World Cinema tends to focus on common themes e.g. power, poverty and conflict, social class, gender representation et al within the confines of what has to be described as Hollywood Hegemony. Ironically ‘international film…
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Amy Charlewood | Monday February 04, 2013
Categories: EDUQAS A2, Theory, Film Theory, EDUQAS A Level, Amores Perros, World Cinema, A Level, Hot Entries, Audience, Film Analysis, Film Language, Representation, Films & Case Studies, Analysis, Key Concepts
It is important to firstly consider the context of this unit as an exploration of world cinema. World cinema is difficult to define; with most definitions reverting to that it can be defined simply as any cinema outside of the globally dominant industry of Hollywood or any non English language cinema. Often discussed as an alternative to Hollywood’s ‘dream factory’, World cinema tends to be perceived as possessing certain features offering an insight into another country’s culture, a…
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Rob Miller | Thursday November 10, 2011
Categories: EDUQAS A2, EDUQAS A Level, Research, Amores Perros, World Cinema, A Level, Film Research, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Analysis
Rob Miller | Monday October 31, 2011
Categories: EDUQAS A2, EDUQAS A Level, Drama, Romance, Thriller, Amores Perros, Gangster, World Cinema, A Level, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis
Urban Stories: Power, Poverty and Conflict Synopsis and Character Profiles Amores Perros is a film about a three interconnected stories in Mexico City that borrow from, or arguably make, intertextual references to Pulp Fiction in terms of the non linear narrative. A car crash is the pivotal scene that involves, and effects, all three narratives and serves as a narrative arc – in Story 1 (like Pulp Fiction chapter headings are used) Octavio and Susana fall for each other, but not before Susana…
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