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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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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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htlsOf3PnGY Copyright © 2019 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. Context Cinema is always evolving and it’s an exciting process to witness, to explore and to understand. A film such as Elephant is just one example of…
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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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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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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
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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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Graham Panton | Saturday September 02, 2017
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Thriller, Romance, Alfred Hitchcock, Film Analysis, Analysis, Mystery
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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 | Monday October 06, 2014
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, EDUQAS AS, Genres & Case Studies, Film Industry, A Level, Hot Entries, Film Distribution, Film Marketing, Film Publicity, Film Promotion, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Thriller, Science Fiction, Film Analysis, Analysis, Mystery, Action
Introduction One of the most interesting ways to engage with genre is to select two films from the same genre and compare and contrast them. Critically, select two films produced in significantly different time periods and places - by doing this kind of analytical exercise we’re able to go some distance in identifying some of the ways in which a genre evolves. Science fiction film certainly seems to offer a particularly rich case study in terms of what kinds of ideas texts can be encoded…
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Rob Miller | Monday September 22, 2014
Categories: Hot Entries, Thriller, Crime
Single Film – Critical Study ‘Set in the early 1970s, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song is actually a film about the black man in American history.’ Discuss the film in relation to this statement. What is the importance of movement and soundtrack in Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song? What does your chosen film reveal about the usefulness of one or more critical approaches you have applied? Consider debates that have arisen in the critical reception of your chosen…
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jclarke | Monday August 18, 2014
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, EDUQAS A2, Genres & Case Studies, Film Industry, A Level, Hot Entries, Film Marketing, Film Publicity, Film Promotion, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Thriller, Romance, Film Analysis, Key Concepts, Analysis, Representation, Audience, Film Language, Mystery
click on image to enlarge Understanding the relationship between the micro and the macro elements of a film is an essential part of our analysis of movies. Every shot, every sound accumulates to form the expression of an idea. Thinking about movies in this way might prompt us to acknowledge that a camera move for example, can express a character’s psychology, sometimes more forcefully and memorably than a line of dialogue could ever do. In the opening scene of Vertigo (1958) as the film’s…
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vikiwalden | Monday March 25, 2013
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, EDUQAS A2, Genres & Case Studies, World Cinema, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Non-Hollywood Films, Thriller, Romance, Comedy, Science Fiction, Drama, Film Analysis, Key Concepts, Analysis, Representation, Audience, Film Language, Action, Crime, History
click on image to enlarge Students can find studying spectatorship challenging. There are many theories of spectatorship, but starting with the theory can lead students to list theoretical ideas rather than engage with the texts. Let’s not forget this A2 Film Studies unit is about “emotional responses? more than critical ones. This is a good place to start with students. What is “emotion?? What is “popular film?? And what elements of the film experience trigger emotional…
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jclarke | Friday March 22, 2013
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, EDUQAS AS, Genres & Case Studies, Film Industry, Production Companies, A Level, Hot Entries, Film Distribution, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Thriller, British Film, Film Analysis, Key Concepts, Analysis, Independent, Representation, Audience, Film Language, Crime, Social Realism
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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nicoleponsford | Tuesday September 11, 2012
Categories: OCR A Level, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Hot Entries, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Thriller, Comedy, Drama, British Film, Film Analysis, Analysis, Independent, Horror, Mystery, Action
In both the exam and in the coursework, candidates will be asked to study English Language Texts. They are NOT able to study the same texts for both sections and will prepare for this in different ways. For example, the coursework will act as a catalyst for their creative work in their portfolios. In the exam, students will have part of a two hour exam to answer a specific (unseen) question on an aspect of the film. Both the coursework and examination texts will have shared aspects. This is…
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vikiwalden | Wednesday November 02, 2011
Categories: Genres & Case Studies, GCSE, Hot Entries, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Thriller, Disaster, Film Analysis, Analysis, Action Adventure
Paper 1 | Disaster Movies Case Study | Towering Inferno Synopsis The film opens, with beautiful wide shots, following a helicopter out of the wilderness into the centre of San Francisco; Architect Doug Roberts explains his plans to go and live in the countryside, as he prepares for the opening ceremony of the Tower, he designed for James Duncan (J.D.). As part of a routine systems check, an electrical short starts a small fire on the 81st floor, which is initially undetected. Doug confronts the…
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Rob Miller | Monday October 31, 2011
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, EDUQAS A2, Genres & Case Studies, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Thriller, Romance, Comedy, Film Noir, Fight Club, Drama, Film Analysis, Analysis
A2 Film Studies Section C: Close Critical Study Synopsis and Character Profiles Fight Club is based on a surprisingly short novel by Chuck Palahniuk, where it is suggested the desire for meaning drives civilisation. The film takes this as it essence, but offers a broader range of more complex representations. In terms of narrative, the film is initially about the life of a disillusioned office worker - played by the narrator, Edward Norton – he works for a car insurance company, who appraise…
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Rob Miller | Monday October 31, 2011
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, EDUQAS A2, Genres & Case Studies, Amores Perros, Gangster, World Cinema, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Thriller, Romance, Drama, Film Analysis, 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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