jclarke | Friday March 22, 2013
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, EDUQAS AS, Social Realism, British Film, Crime, Production Companies, Thriller, A Level, Film Industry, Hot Entries, Film Distribution, Audience, Film Analysis, Film Language, Representation, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis, Independent, Key Concepts
click on image to enlarge Crime and cinema have a longstanding relationship. Going right back to early cinema one of the landmark silent films was The Great Train Robbery (1903). There is a shot in that film which is overtly referenced as the last shot that we see in the American crime film GoodFellas (1990). click on image to enlarge However, whereas we might argue that the criminal life that’s represented in the Hollywood-produced GoodFellas is somewhat glamourised and told in an overtly…
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jclarke | Friday March 08, 2013
Categories: EDUQAS A2, EDUQAS A Level, Realism, Soviet Montage, Social Realism, Documentary, Man With A Movie Camera, Production Companies, World Cinema, A Level, Film Industry, Film Distribution, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis
click on image to enlarge Cinema is always evolving. The constantly changing quality of film styles is exciting and since the beginnings of film history many nations around the world have developed their own distinct cinematic style and this continues today in the twenty-first century. During the early part of the twentieth century one country that contributed very significantly to the development of early cinema, was Russia and now, in 2013, almost a century later, the particular film style…
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jclarke | Friday March 08, 2013
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, EDUQAS AS, Social Realism, British Film, Production Companies, A Level, Film Industry, Film Distribution, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis
click on image to enlarge Introduction National identity and cinema are inextricably connected around the world. Within this national cinema dynamic is to be found the question of what it might mean to ‘be British’, or, more specifically, English. It’s a question that’s the basis of a longstanding narrative that relates powerfully to our filmic identity and, more immediately, our identity as an island nation, physically and culturally (and economically) separate to the mainland of…
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jclarke | Thursday December 20, 2012
Categories: Theory, Film Theory, EDUQAS A Level, EDUQAS AS, Social Realism, British Film, Production Companies, A Level, Film Industry, Hot Entries, Film Distribution, Film Marketing, Film Publicity, Audience, Film Promotion, Film Analysis, Trainspotting, Film Language, Representation, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis, Key Concepts
Ewan McGregor is a major British film star who has appeared in a wide range of films that have been released globally since 1994. His career has combined performances in a range of lower budgeted feature films and work in highly budgeted, event films released by the major film studios. Over the course of almost twenty years McGregor has appeared in nearly fifty films. Professionally trained as an actor at London’s Guildhall, McGregor hails from Scotland and the narrative of his career…
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Rob Miller | Monday December 10, 2012
Categories: OCR A Level, Social Realism, A Level, Hot Entries, Audience, Film Analysis, Film Language, Representation, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis, Key Concepts
Origins and Development Social Realist films originate in the 1950s/1960s but drew in terms of their form and style from the British documentary tradition of the 1930s popularised by the GPO Film Unit (Nightmail) who ultimately became the Crown Film Unit at the start of WW2 (Fires Were Started, Britain Can Take It). In the 1960s social realist films became critically and commercially successful and benefitted from the fact that television was only a feature in some middle class households –…
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vikiwalden | Friday September 07, 2012
Categories: EDUQAS A2, EDUQAS A Level, New Realism, Social Realism, Drama, World Cinema, A Level, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Genres & Case Studies, Classic, Analysis
Urban Stories | Power, Poverty & Conflict | Case Study 2 | La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz , 1995) Synopsis La Haine (Hate 1995, France) focuses on a single day in the lives of three twenty-something friends from immigrant families, living in an impoverished and multi-ethnic French housing project. The housing project, or la banlieues (ZUP - zone à urbaniser en priorité), hosts a riot after a young man is shot by a policeman. The film follows the young trio in the immediate aftermath of the…
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Rob Miller | Thursday November 10, 2011
Categories: Social Realism, British Film, GCSE, Hot Entries, Film Analysis, Screening Notes, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis, Independent
British and American Film Independent Case Study Associated Resources This is England Screening Questions.doc Use your bibliography of British Film resources to research the following questions: Who wrote and directed This is England? What other projects has he been involved in? What do you think his contribution to British Film has been? What was the name of the Production Company and Theatrical Distributor? How would you describe the Distribution company? Where did the film get financial…
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Rob Miller | Tuesday November 08, 2011
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, EDUQAS AS, Social Realism, Drama, History, A Level, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis
Synopsis and Character Profiles Milk is a film based on a true story (narrative fact) about openly gay civil rights activist, Harvey Milk, who eventually - after many struggles and defeats - finally serves in public office as a San Francisco Supervisor in the Mayor’s Office. The film ends with his assassination in 1978 by political nemesis, Social Conservative Dan White. Played by Sean Penn, the film opens with 40 year old Milk in 1978 narrating and recording a monologue “only to be played…
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vikiwalden | Tuesday November 08, 2011
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, EDUQAS AS, Social Realism, Drama, Romance, A Level, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis
Section C: American Comparative Study Synopsis Kym awaits the arrival of her father and step mother, Carol to pick her up from rehab. When she arrives home the house is chaotic amidst her sister’s wedding arrangements. Kym and her sister, Rachel reminisces about their childhood and appear to have a close relationship. Paul, Kym’s dad, will not let her borrow a car because of a past incident, so Kym has to cycle to attend her addicts’ meeting and drugs test. When she returns and is…
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