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 | Sunday January 23, 2022
Categories: Drama, Crime, World Cinema, GCSE, Hot Entries, Tsotsi, Audience, Film Analysis, Film Language, Representation, Films & Case Studies, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis, Key Concepts
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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jclarke | Wednesday November 28, 2018
Categories: EDUQAS A Level, Drama, Crime, World Cinema, A Level, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis
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, Drama, Action, Adventure, World Cinema, A Level, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis
YouTube Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GLVaSYzAvg 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 | Thursday September 13, 2018
Categories: EDUQAS A2, EDUQAS A Level, Metropolis, World Cinema, A Level, Hot Entries, Audience, Film Analysis, Film Language, Representation, Films & Case Studies, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis, Posters, Film Poster Analysis, Key Concepts
European Cinema History: German Cinema of the 1920s Introduction One of the most rewarding aspects of Film Studies is to be found in recognising how films produced at one, quite distant moment in time often made long ago, continue to influence more contemporary films with which we might all be more familiar. This is certainly true of the impact of some examples of German cinema produced in the 1920s. If you watch Edward Scissorhands (1990), Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), Bringing out the…
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jclarke | Monday July 02, 2018
Categories: OCR A Level, International/Non English Language, Experimental, Short, World Cinema, Non-Hollywood Films
YouTube Link:
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Richard Gent | Thursday March 01, 2018
Categories: EDUQAS A2, EDUQAS A Level, World Cinema, A Level, Hot Entries, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Non-Hollywood Films, Key Concepts
Click to see our Revision Part 1: Knowledge Organisers The exam reports from the Summer 2018 AS exams identified areas for development which may well be similar for the A Level students taking the exam this summer. I certainly identified with some of the issues as they were very similar to ones I had seen on the student attempts at the Mock exams. A knowledge organiser (KO) sets out the important, useful and powerful knowledge on a topic on a single page. Linked below are Knowledge Organisers…
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Richard Gent | Tuesday February 27, 2018
Categories: OCR A Level, World Cinema, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Non-Hollywood Films, Key Concepts
Click to see our Revision Part 1: Knowledge Organisers The exam reports from the Summer 2018 AS exams identified areas for development which may well be similar for the A Level students taking the exam this summer. I certainly identified with some of the issues as they were very similar to ones I had seen on the student attempts at the Mock exams. A knowledge organiser (KO) sets out the important, useful and powerful knowledge on a topic on a single page. Linked below are Knowledge Organisers…
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Rob Miller | Friday September 09, 2016
Categories: EDUQAS A2, EDUQAS A Level, Science Fiction, Pumzi, World Cinema, A Level, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis
WJEC A2 Film Studies FM4 Section A World Cinema: Empowering Women Empowering Women Past Exam Questions: Discuss how persuasive you have found the different films you have studied for this topic in promoting female empowerment. In the films you have studied for this topic, how far can it be said that central characters and their situations are represented in similar ways? Discuss how far men are represented as enemies of female empowerment in the films you have chosen for this topic. Explore…
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Rob Miller | Tuesday September 15, 2015
Categories: OCR A Level, OCR A2, Drama, Crime, History, War, World Cinema, A Level, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis
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, Horror, Fantasy, World Cinema, A Level, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis
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jclarke | Sunday September 13, 2015
Categories: OCR A Level, History, Horror, Fantasy, World Cinema, A Level, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis
YouTube Link:
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jclarke | Sunday September 13, 2015
Categories: OCR A Level, Science Fiction, Drama, Metropolis, Production Companies, World Cinema, A Level, Film Industry, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis
YouTube Link:
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Rob Miller | Friday September 11, 2015
Categories: OCR A Level, OCR A2, Drama, History, War, Comedy, Romance, World Cinema, A Level, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Goodbye Lenin, Non-Hollywood Films, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis
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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jclarke | Thursday September 10, 2015
Categories: OCR A Level, French New Wave, World Cinema, A Level, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis
À Bout de Souffle (Breathless) (1960) Jean-Luc Godard, the director of À Bout de Souffle, always sought to encourage the audience to rethink what film could be in terms of both subject matter and the treatment of that subject matter. Godard once commented that ‘To me style is just the outside of content and content the inside of style; like the outside and inside of the human body both go together, they cannot be separated.’ [5]. It’s surely one of the most useful…
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jclarke | Friday September 04, 2015
Categories: EDUQAS A2, EDUQAS A Level, Production Companies, World Cinema, A Level, Film Industry, Hot Entries, Film Distribution, Censorship & Regulation, Film Marketing, Film Publicity, Audience, Film Promotion, Film Analysis, Film Language, Representation, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis, Key Concepts
Across the varied and diverse ways in which a film text can encode and emphasise meanings and a specific viewpoint on or presentation of a subject, realism is a key aesthetic and formal choice and approach that has functioned as a key creative direction of so much western expression across literature and the visual arts. This resource, then, explores the characteristics of a particular film style that we call neorealism. It stems from post World War Two Italian cinema and its influence has been…
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Rob Miller | Friday November 14, 2014
Categories: OCR A Level, OCR A2, World Cinema, A Level, Hot Entries, Films & Case Studies
Associated Resources Edusites Lesson Plan Template.docx NB. Please note this is a suggested template, your school may require a different layout. Length of Lesson (minutes): 60 Lesson Title: An Introduction to F633 Global Cinema and Critical Perspectives Section A: Messages and Values in Global Film Context This lesson would be delivered early in term one to embed the notion of non-English language global cinema and develop a critical approach to film analysis required for the whole of F633.…
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Rob Miller | Tuesday November 11, 2014
Categories: World Cinema, GCSE, Hot Entries, Films & Case Studies
Associated Resources Edusites Lesson Plan Template.docx NB: Please note this is a suggested template, your school may require a different layout. Length of Lesson (minutes): 60 Lesson Title. An Introduction to World Cinema Context This lesson would be delivered between weeks 21-23, in April/May as a preparation for Paper 2: Exploring Film Outside of Hollywood. It is expected that pupils have not studied world cinema and are relatively unfamiliar with non-English language films at GCSE level, or…
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Rob Miller | Wednesday October 29, 2014
Categories: OCR A Level, Drama, Crime, History, War, World Cinema, A Level, Hot Entries, Audience, Film Analysis, Film Language, Representation, Films & Case Studies, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis, Key Concepts
YouTube Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd5Pz8KJeU4 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 2010, The Guardian newspaper published a story entitled “Algeria (national football squad) prepare for World Cup battle by watching The Battle of Algiers.?.…
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jclarke | Tuesday October 07, 2014
Categories: EDUQAS A2, EDUQAS A Level, International/Non English Language, Drama, Queer Theory, Romance, World Cinema, A Level, Film Industry, Hot Entries, Film Distribution, Film Marketing, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis
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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Rob Miller | Wednesday October 01, 2014
Categories: International/Non English Language, World Cinema, Hot Entries
click on image to enlarge There are key areas of study that WJEC recommend are explored for FM4 Section C – Solaris, and they are as follows: As a philosophical film about identity and memory
The role and function of Hari
The undemonstrative character of Kris and the reasons for this
Issues of representation in relation to conventions of the Sci-Fi genre
The significance of the earth sequences – including the emphasis on nature The overall pace and length…
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Rob Miller | Wednesday September 03, 2014
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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jclarke | Friday May 09, 2014
Categories: EDUQAS A2, EDUQAS A Level, Drama, Comedy, Romance, World Cinema, Talk To Her, A Level, Hot Entries, Audience, Film Analysis, Film Language, Representation, Films & Case Studies, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis, Key Concepts
click on image to enlarge In this resource we will consider the film Talk To Her (2002) and explore some aspects of its film style, by which we mean the choices made by the filmmakers in their deployment of sound and visual elements in the construction of the narrative. As such, we are considering how storytelling devices express a range of meanings and values embodied within the drama. Talk To Her offers an opportunity for us to think about how film (and non Hollywood films, particularly)…
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Rob Miller | Friday March 14, 2014
Categories: EDUQAS A2, EDUQAS A Level, 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 WJEC A2 Film Studies FM4 Section A World Cinema: Aspects of National Cinema This section of FM4 Section A: World Cinema does not require a comprehensive study of the period as long as there is some significance in the films chosen, and their relationship to the national cinema to which they belong. It is expected two principal films will be chosen, supplemented by briefer reference to one or two other films. As such, this resource (not an exemplar exam response) will…
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Rob Miller | Friday March 14, 2014
Categories: OCR A Level, OCR A2, Drama, Action, History, Fantasy, Romance, World Cinema, A Level, Hot Entries, Audience, Film Analysis, Film Language, Representation, Films & Case Studies, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis, Key Concepts
OCR A2 Film Studies Unit F633: Global Cinema and Critical Perspectives Section A: Messages and Values in Global Cinema click on image to enlarge The study of “two contrasting non-English language texts that derive from different countries of origin?: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (China, Honk Kong, Taiwan) 2000 Russian Ark (Russia, Germany) 2002 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Both films, one a Wuxia martial arts/romance hybrid and the other a historical drama-documentary provide audiences…
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jclarke | Thursday March 13, 2014
Categories: EDUQAS A2, EDUQAS A Level, Drama, Romance, World Cinema, A Level, Hot Entries, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis
click on image to enlarge WJEC A2 Film Studies FM4 Section C Critical Study Les Enfants du Paradis Typically, in many of our Edusites resources we identify contexts that inform the potential meaning of a given film text. In the case of Les Enfants du Paradis this is an especially powerful and relevant aspect of how we approach the film. In this resource, we will broadly sketch out a particular political context, then move on to describe something of the production and conceptual development of…
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jclarke | Thursday March 06, 2014
Categories: EDUQAS A2, EDUQAS A Level, 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 WJEC A2 Film Studies FM4 Section A World Cinema Aspects of a National Cinema: Iranian Cinema 1990 - Present Introduction Let us start with a piece from what could serve as possible further reading beyond this resource as it suggests the complexity of the subject we are exploring: “for many pious families, going to the cinema was tantamount to committing a sin. The main reason for this was that cinematic representations of women and love upset the delicate dualism…
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jclarke | Wednesday November 27, 2013
Categories: EDUQAS A2, OCR A Level, EDUQAS A Level, OCR A2, EDUQAS AS, Production Companies, World Cinema, A Level, Film Industry, Hot Entries, Film Distribution, Censorship & Regulation, Film Marketing, Film Publicity, Audience, Film Promotion, Film Language, Representation, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Key Concepts
click on image to enlarge Film is technology. It’s an obvious point, and an essential one. Film established itself as a symbol of the modern, mechanical age of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and so it is particularly interesting to now witness how the medium is moving into the digital age. Indeed, we should perhaps talk not of new technology but of now technology because it is so quickly ever changing and evolving. In Western Europe we live in an increasingly digital and…
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jclarke | Monday November 25, 2013
Categories: EDUQAS A2, EDUQAS A Level, Production Companies, Japanese, World Cinema, A Level, Film Industry, Hot Entries, Film Distribution, Audience, Film Analysis, Film Language, Representation, Films & Case Studies, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis, Key Concepts
click on image to enlarge WJEC A2 Film Studies FM4 Section A World Cinema: Aspects of National Cinema Japanese cinema can be understood as a major presence in the international film style context, not only in terms of its own achievement but also for the influence it has exerted on cinema far beyond its borders. It’s a national cinema with a very specific set of concerns and stylistic traits and with a number of particular contexts that allow the film texts to be understood in all the…
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Rob Miller | Friday October 04, 2013
Categories: EDUQAS A2, EDUQAS A Level, EDUQAS AS, World Cinema, A Level, Hot Entries, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Non-Hollywood Films, Genres & Case Studies
AS Film Studies Films to teach Core Concepts/British Film Topics/Comparative Study The Shining (1980): Film Form/Mise-en-Scene Beautiful Lies (2010): Genre Avatar (2009): Production, Distribution but also representation and genre Cowboys and Aliens (2011): Hybrid Genre Hot Fuzz (2007): Hybrid Genre, British Film Production Companies Warm Bodies (2013): Hybrid Genre Milk (2008): Independent American Social Realism Precious (2009): Independent American Social Realism About Time (2013): Working…
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Rob Miller | Friday October 04, 2013
Categories: World Cinema, GCSE, Hot Entries, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Non-Hollywood Films, Genres & Case Studies
Non-Superhero Films – Areas of Study Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (2011): Production values and genre Titanic (1997): Film Form, Narrative, genre and representation Cloverfield (2008): Genre and production values The Bourne Identity (2002): Narrative, film franchises and genre The King’s Speech (2010): Film Form, Film funding, genre and representation Gulliver’s Travels (2010): Hybrid comedy, Action Adventure Star Trek into Darkness (2013): Genre, sequels, franchises and…
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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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vikiwalden | Monday March 25, 2013
Categories: EDUQAS A2, EDUQAS A Level, Science Fiction, Drama, Action, Crime, History, Comedy, Romance, Thriller, World Cinema, A Level, Audience, Film Analysis, Film Language, Representation, Films & Case Studies, Hollywood Films, Non-Hollywood Films, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis, Key Concepts
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 | Thursday March 21, 2013
Categories: EDUQAS A2, EDUQAS A Level, French New Wave, Production Companies, World Cinema, A Level, Film Industry, Film Distribution, Audience, Film Analysis, Film Language, Representation, Films & Case Studies, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis, Key Concepts
In 1950, when he was only nineteen years old, Jean-Luc Godard, one day to become one the great filmmakers, wrote a piece for the French publication Gazette du Cinema called Towards A Political Cinema. Even at this young age, Godard was aware of cinema’s power to communicate ideas. Jean-Luc Godard examines a strip of film: Film history describes a wide range of film movements that have each had an often-short lifespan that’s been quite specific but the legacies of which have endured.…
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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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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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karenardouin | Wednesday December 19, 2012
Categories: Drama, Horror, World Cinema, GCSE, Hot Entries, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis
Associated Resources
WJEC GCSE Film Studies Paper 2 Non Hollywood High Level Exemplar The Devil’s Backbone.doc
GCSE Film Studies Paper 2 Non Hollywood B Grade Exemplar.doc
GCSE Film Studies Paper 2 Non Hollywood C Grade Exemplar.doc
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vikiwalden | Tuesday November 06, 2012
Categories: EDUQAS A2, EDUQAS A Level, Mexican, World Cinema, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Genres & Case Studies
Background: The Beginnings To fully comprehend any one period in a country’s cinema, there needs to be some contextualisation. Early Mexican filmmakers profited from the turbulent times the country faced at the turn of the century. The civil war was the subject of many silent films; several significant battles were documented on camera. As the country began to stabilize during the 1930s, filmmakers had a myriad of social issues to choose from as themes for their films. However, they…
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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: EDUQAS A2, EDUQAS A Level, Research, Amores Perros, World Cinema, A Level, Film Research, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Analysis
vikiwalden | Tuesday November 01, 2011
Categories: 1990 Onwards, Adventure, World Cinema, GCSE, Hot Entries, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis, Animation
Paper 2 | Non-Hollywood Films Case Study | Spirited Away Synopsis Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi (Spirited Away) follows the story of a young girl, Chihiro as she crosses the border between the human world and the spirit world. En-route to their new home, Chihiro’s parents stop at (what they think) is a disused theme park site. Despite being abandoned, one stall has food; without question her parents greedily eat the food, but as night falls Chihiro is warned by a spirit, Haku to leave. As she…
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Rob Miller | Tuesday November 01, 2011
Categories: EDUQAS A2, EDUQAS A Level, Documentary, Man With A Movie Camera, Silent, World Cinema, A Level, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Genres & Case Studies, Classic, Analysis, Independent
Spectatorship and Documentary Synopsis and Character Profiles Man with a Movie Camera is an innovative silent 1929 Documentary, set in a number of cities in the Soviet Union, including Odessa (near where Eisenstein shot the iconic Odessa Steps sequence in Battleship Potemkin). Fundamentally, and on a manifest level, it is about a day in the life of a city and audiences are introduced to a city literally waking up – individuals washing and bathing, Tram Sheds opening, tramps waking up on park…
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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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vikiwalden | Monday October 31, 2011
Categories: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Amelie, World Cinema, GCSE, Hot Entries, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis
Paper 2 | Non-Hollywood Films Case Study | Amélie Synopsis Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain is the story of Amélie, a young girl brought up by a strict, nervous schoolteacher and an emotionally cold doctor. The awkwardness and nervous deposition of her parents means Amélie does not meet other children; instead she is left to her own imagination. After her mother dies, her father becomes gradually more reclusive and Amélie decides she will leave as soon as she can. Once she is working…
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vikiwalden | Sunday October 23, 2011
Categories: World Cinema, A Level, Hot Entries, Films & Case Studies
This guide is designed to cover the main issues regarding teaching World Cinema for the WJEC A2 in Film Studies for FM4: Varieties of Film Experience - Issues and Debates (Section A) and to explain what is likely to be asked of students in the examination. The topics currently available for examination are: (a) Aspects of a National Cinema Bollywood, 1990 – present Iranian Cinema, 1990 – present Japanese Cinema, 1950 – 1970 Mexican Cinema, 1990 – present (b) International Film Styles…
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vikiwalden | Saturday October 22, 2011
Categories: EDUQAS A2, EDUQAS A Level, Expressionist, Metropolis, World Cinema, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Genres & Case Studies, Classic, Independent
Urban Stories | Power, Poverty & Conflict | Case Study 1 | Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927) Synopsis Freder has lived a naive existence as the son of the founder / owner of the city of Metropolis. He spends his spare time frolicking in the Club of Sons or Eternal Gardens, blissfully unaware of the tormented incarceration of the workers in the depths of the city. This is until, one day, Maria brings the children to see their richer “brothers”. Touched by the image of these poor,…
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