jclarke | Tuesday April 18, 2023
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Adventure, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Comedy, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis
Copyright © 2023 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 Sightseers, we are considering a film that’s regarded as a contemporary ‘classic’, and perhaps even a ‘cult’ film. There are a wealth of ideas to engage with in the…
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jclarke | Thursday March 10, 2022
Categories: Genres & Case Studies, GCSE, Hot Entries, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Thriller, Drama, Film Analysis, Key Concepts, Analysis, Representation, Audience, Film Language
click on image to enlarge Introduction Exploring films that have been produced outside of those made and distributed globally by the Hollywood film studios offers us an exciting opportunity to broaden our horizons: in terms of storytelling (the way of telling, or organizing the elements of a story), the stories themselves become of broader interest in other cultures and their cinemas. Watching films from around the world, rather than only those made by American and British film producers is an…
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Rob Miller | Sunday January 23, 2022
Categories: Genres & Case Studies, World Cinema, GCSE, Hot Entries, Films & Case Studies, Tsotsi, Drama, Film Analysis, Key Concepts, Analysis, Representation, Audience, Film Language, Crime
Clips Tsotsi Opening Sequence Tsotsi End Sequence Further Reading Studying Tsotsi: Judith Gunn (Auteur Publishing) Awards Best Foreign Language Film - 2006 Academy Awards Institutional Factors and Representation of People, Places, Events and Issues Tsotsi (urban slang – thug) is a film based on a novel by Athol Fugard set in the impoverished township of Soweto, Johannesburg in South Africa – Fugard is best known for his plays with political narratives opposing the historical South…
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Rob Miller | Friday October 01, 2021
Categories: OCR A Level, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Hot Entries, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Romance, Comedy, Drama, British Film, Film Analysis, Analysis
Institutional Factors | Distribution Submarine was written and directed by Richard Ayoade and released at UK cinemas in March 2011 after significant critical success at festivals including the London Film Festival (LFF) but particularly the Toronto Film Festival. Toronto success secured the film a distribution contract with the Weinstein Company (formerly Disney owned Miramax) – Bob and Harvey Weinstein’s company in essence can be described as a ‘Mini Major’ film…
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Graham Panton | Wednesday November 13, 2019
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Richard Linklater, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis
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jclarke | Tuesday September 10, 2019
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Romance, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis, Independent Film
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jclarke | Sunday September 08, 2019
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Silent Era, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Romance, Comedy, Silent, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis
YouTube link to trailer:
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jclarke | Monday February 11, 2019
Categories: Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Drama, Horror
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jclarke | Saturday January 19, 2019
Categories: OCR A Level, Gus Van Sant, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Thriller, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis, Independent Film, Crime
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jclarke | Wednesday November 28, 2018
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Genres & Case Studies, World Cinema, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis, Crime
YouTube Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcUOO4Itgmw 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. Component 2: Global filmmaking perspectives For this component, learners must study: two non - English language films, one European and one from outside Europe (two -…
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jclarke | Wednesday October 17, 2018
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Adventure, Genres & Case Studies, World Cinema, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis, Action
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jclarke | Saturday October 13, 2018
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Comedy, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis
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jclarke | Monday September 10, 2018
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis, Independent Film, Crime
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jclarke | Friday September 07, 2018
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Romance, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis
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jclarke | Monday September 03, 2018
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis, Crime
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Richard Gent | Thursday August 16, 2018
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, European Film, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis
YouTube Link:
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jclarke | Wednesday August 15, 2018
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, European Film, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Fantasy, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis, War
YouTube Link:
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Darin Caudle | Friday July 06, 2018
Categories: OCR A Level, Fancis Ford Coppola, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Thriller, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis, Mystery
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrhRsZ56b4g Copyright © 2017 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. Guide Navigation The Conversation Single Film Study: Part 2 Rationale Section A of Paper 1 focuses upon the micro-elements of film form and the construction of meaning…
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Darin Caudle | Wednesday July 04, 2018
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Comedy, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis
YouTube Link:
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jclarke | Thursday June 28, 2018
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Thriller, Science Fiction, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis
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jclarke | Wednesday May 23, 2018
Categories: OCR A Level, European Film, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis, French New Wave, Avant-Garde, Crime
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdXTtX_cz3s Copyright © 2017 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. Introduction In studying a film that is widely regarded as a ‘classic’, there’s typically find a wealth of discourse about it and The 400 Blows…
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vikiwalden | Friday January 05, 2018
Categories: OCR A Level, Billy Wilder, Double Indemnity, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Film Noir, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis, Crime
YouTube Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKrrAa2o9Eg Copyright © 2017 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. Rationale Section A of Paper 1 focuses upon the micro-elements of film form and the construction of meaning and response by both filmmaker and spectator, with a…
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Richard Gent | Thursday January 04, 2018
Categories: OCR A Level, Silent Era, Adventure, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Comedy, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis
YouTube Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDlEvaKBkhU Copyright © 2017 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. Rationale Section A of Paper 1 focuses upon the micro-elements of film form and the construction of meaning and response by both filmmaker and spectator, with a…
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Richard Gent | Thursday January 04, 2018
Categories: OCR A Level, Raging Bull, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis, Sport
YouTube Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHhzOM4gBIA Copyright © 2017 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. Rationale Section A of Paper 1 focuses upon the micro-elements of film form and the construction of meaning and response by both filmmaker and spectator, with a…
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vikiwalden | Friday December 08, 2017
Categories: OCR A Level, Orson Welles, Citizen Kane, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis, Mystery
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dxh3lwdOFw Copyright © 2017 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. Rationale Section A of Paper 1 focuses upon the micro-elements of film form and the construction of meaning and response by both filmmaker and spectator, with a…
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Barry Rainsford | Wednesday November 29, 2017
Categories: OCR A Level, David Wark Griffith, Silent Era, The Birth of a Nation, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis, History, War
YouTube Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9UPOkIpR0A Copyright © 2017 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. Rationale Section A of Paper 1 focuses upon the micro-elements of film form and the construction of meaning and response by both filmmaker and spectator, with a…
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jclarke | Wednesday November 22, 2017
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis, Film Library, Crime
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzunVk_wJNc Copyright © 2017 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. Contexts Context of Production Every film reflects the concerns of its time, the particular way of looking at the world in that culture, that society, that time. To…
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jclarke | Wednesday November 22, 2017
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Ava DuVernay, Selma, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis, History
YouTube Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B74p2yHUHHQ Copyright © 2017 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. Contexts Context of Production Every film reflects the concerns of its time, the particular way of looking at the world in that culture, that society, that time. To…
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Richard Gent | Thursday November 09, 2017
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Mike Leigh, Secrets and Lies, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis
YouTube Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YToU70X6O_Y Copyright © 2017 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. *Please note that this film title uses an ampersand in the title rather than the word. Throughout this single film study it is referred to as Secrets & Lies by Mike…
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Richard Gent | Thursday November 09, 2017
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Trainspotting, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis
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jclarke | Thursday October 19, 2017
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Benh Zeitlin, Adventure, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Fantasy, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis
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Darin Caudle | Friday October 06, 2017
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Winter’s Bone, Debra Granik, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis
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https://www.youtube.com/embed/5O8F8JtSVmI Copyright © 2017 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. Contexts Context of Production Every film reflects the concerns of its time, the particular way of looking at the world in that culture, that society, that time. To…
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jclarke | Wednesday September 13, 2017
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Fancis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis, War
YouTube Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snDR7XsSkB4 Copyright © 2017 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. 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…
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abateman | Thursday September 07, 2017
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Milos Forman, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
YouTube Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXrcDonY-B8 Copyright © 2017 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. 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…
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Graham Panton | Wednesday September 06, 2017
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Coen Brothers, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Thriller, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis, Crime
YouTube Link:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/38A__WT3-o0 No Country for Old Men Single Film Study Part 2 here 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…
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vikiwalden | Friday September 01, 2017
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Adventure, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Romance, Casablanca, Film Noir, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis, War
YouTube Link:
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Darin Caudle | Thursday August 31, 2017
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Bonnie and Clyde, Arthur Penn, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis, Action, Crime
YouTube Link:
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Richard Gent | Tuesday October 06, 2015
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Winter’s Bone, Debra Granik, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis
Copyright © 2017 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. EDUQAS Film Studies Paper 1 Section B: Hollywood American Film Since 2005 Component Group 1 Bibliography Works Cited: Adams, S., 2010. Debra Granik. [Online] Available at:
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Rob Miller | Wednesday September 16, 2015
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, EDUQAS AS, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Romance, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis, Horror
Independent Film Case Study: Only Lovers Left Alive (Jarmusch, 2014) This resource focuses on one independent film, Only Lovers Left Alive. It is intended to be used as stimulus in helping to understand the definitions of independent film. For a full guide on Section A please access: WJEC AS FM2 British & American Film Producers and Audiences Resource Items. Only Lovers Left Alive (2014) was directed by Jim Jarmusch and starred Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, John Hurt and Mia Wasikowska.…
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Rob Miller | Tuesday September 15, 2015
Categories: OCR A Level, OCR A2, Genres & Case Studies, World Cinema, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis, Crime, History, War
1. How is style and theme used in communicating messages and values in the films you have studied? (50) The two films I have studied are Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin from 1925 and Francois Truffaut’s Les Quatre Cents Coups (The 400 Blows) from 1959. Both films are encoded with a filmmaking style that both reflects a period in cinematic history and also with narrative themes deeply embedded revealing underlying messages and values. ‘Potemkin’ is considered a classic of 1920s…
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jclarke | Sunday September 13, 2015
Categories: OCR A Level, Genres & Case Studies, Film Industry, Production Companies, World Cinema, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Science Fiction, Drama, Metropolis, Film Analysis, Analysis
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Rob Miller | Friday September 11, 2015
Categories: OCR A Level, Adventure, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Comedy, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis, Crime
This resource will be studying the seven frameworks for analysis in Gone Too Far (2014) and Sightseers (2012). Gone Too Far! Authorship Gone Too Far! (GTF) is a British-Nigerian comedy/social realist drama directed by Destiny Ekaragha. She is only the third black British woman to have directed a feature length film that received UK theatrical distribution (cinemas). All of her previous short films premiered at the BFI London Film Festival (LFF) while GTF premiered at LFF in October 2013 and had…
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Rob Miller | Friday September 11, 2015
Categories: OCR A Level, OCR A2, Genres & Case Studies, World Cinema, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Goodbye Lenin, Non-Hollywood Films, Romance, Comedy, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis, History, War
Battleship Potemkin (Russia, 1925) Good Bye, Lenin! (Germany, 2003) Battleship Potemkin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNT6xyopdBs (whole film) Historical, Socio-political and Cultural Issues incorporating Authorship Battleship Potemkin (Potemkin) is a film rooted in Russian history, a fragile peasant economy was ruled by a Tsarist autocracy until revolution and war in 1905 saw a wave of mass political and social unrest spread through the Russian Empire. This included strikes, peasant unrest…
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Rob Miller | Wednesday September 09, 2015
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, EDUQAS AS, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Thriller, Genre, Narrative, Drama, Film Analysis, Key Concepts, Analysis, Representation, Audience, Film Language, Action Thriller, Western, Action
Dirty Harry (1971, Don Siegel) Gran Torino (2008, Clint Eastwood) Centres can choose from a range of different American film texts: the three main areas of study are Messages, Themes and Values, Narrative and Genre, Representation of Time and Place (often linked to messages and values) and Representation of Character. You can compare in Section B but in Section C you must. The above choice of texts reflects films belonging to the same genre but it is very possible to explore two films that…
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Rob Miller | Monday September 07, 2015
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, EDUQAS AS, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Hot Entries, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Thriller, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis, Crime
FM2 British and American Film Section C: US Cinema Comparative Study For further details of assessment requirements and past Section C exam questions, please go to FilmEdu’s Gilda (1946) and L.A Confidential (1997) Comparative Case Study and FilmEdu’s Minority Report and Blade Runner Comparative Study for other comparison resources. Taxi Driver Like No Country for Old Men, Taxi Driver is a film about nihilism – with 31 years between them both films have characters that…
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Rob Miller | Thursday November 06, 2014
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, EDUQAS AS, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Hot Entries, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Comedy, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis
click on image to enlarge FM2 Section B: British Film Topics – British Film and Culture When we use the term ’British film and culture’ we are stating, or at least implying a connection between specific films and how they are partly, and in significant ways the product of a wider national cultural discourse and identity. In this context, a film can contribute to the way that a nation communicates messages and values about itself. In terms of film, these messages and values find expression…
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Rob Miller | Wednesday October 29, 2014
Categories: OCR A Level, Genres & Case Studies, World Cinema, A Level, Hot Entries, Films & Case Studies, Drama, Film Analysis, Key Concepts, Analysis, Representation, Audience, Film Language, Crime, History, War
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jclarke | Tuesday October 07, 2014
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, EDUQAS A2, Genres & Case Studies, Film Industry, World Cinema, A Level, Hot Entries, Film Distribution, Film Marketing, Films & Case Studies, Romance, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis, Queer Theory, International/Non English Language
click on image to enlarge Introduction Happy Together is a feature film directed by Wong Kar-wai. It was released in 1997, the year that Hong Kong’s governance from Britain ended and governance from China began. The fact that Happy Together begins with passports being stamped might well resonate with Hong Kong audiences particularly with when the film was released. We might suggest that a passport is a very tangible symbol of national identity. The film is encoded throughout with images…
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jclarke | Thursday July 10, 2014
Categories: Genres & Case Studies, GCSE, Hot Entries, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Drama, Film Analysis, Key Concepts, Analysis, Representation, Audience, Film Language
click on image to enlarge Introduction Lynne Ramsay’s film Ratcatcher is a key British production of the late 1990s and is notable for its thoughtful and sensitive focus on the representation of a young person. The film explores the representation of childhood, guilt and atonement in a dysfunctional environment. Although on the paper 2, GCSE list of films, Vicky LeBeau’s analysis of the narrative and ideological function that children typically embody in movies can apply when she writes…
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jclarke | Monday May 19, 2014
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, EDUQAS A2, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Hot Entries, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Comedy, Drama, Film Analysis, Key Concepts, Analysis, Representation, Audience, Film Language
click on image to enlarge The first image that we see in Modern Times is of a clock - a symbol of the workplace and productivity as Chaplin’s Little Tramp struggles in the modern, industrialised world of which he is so critical during the time of the Great Depression, see more on that here. As such the image is emblematic of the entire film. Modern Times is a silent film comedy that is as ideologically rich and meaningful as a wide range of far more ‘serious’ dramas about ‘serious’…
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