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Amores Perros A Level Film Case Study »
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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WJEC A2 Film Studies FM4 Section A World Cinema Bollywood A Grade Exemplar »
Categories: EDUQAS A2, Theory, EDUQAS A Level, Auteur Theory, Bollywood, World Cinema, A Level, Hot Entries, Audience, Film Analysis, Film Language, Representation, Films & Case Studies, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis, Key Concepts
click on image to enlarge By comparing the cinematic styles used in the films you have studied for this topic, is it possible to identify a distinctive ‘National Cinema’? Indian cinema means different things to different people and there are a lot of different cinematic styles originating from the Indian subcontinent. Stereotypically, when western audiences without cultural capital or knowledge think of Indian films the iconic name ‘Bollywood’ comes to mind, or less widely known outside…
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Authorship in Contemporary Cinema: The Films of Danny Boyle and Tim Burton »
Categories: EDUQAS A2, Theory, Film Theory, OCR A Level, EDUQAS A Level, OCR A2, EDUQAS AS, Auteur Theory, A Level, Hot Entries, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Analysis
click on image to enlarge As we know, there are a fascinating range of ways in which to explore what cinema is; for example: how it achieves its impact on an audience, how technology informs creative choices and how a particular film can tell us something of the culture that produced it. These are all ways of understanding the relationship between text and context. However, the concept that remains perhaps most popular, accessible and fundamental to our thinking about cinema, perhaps because it…
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