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EDUQAS A LEVEL FILM STUDIES KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER
COMPONENT 1A: HOLLYWOOD (VERTIGO & ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST) COMPONENT 1B: HOLLYWOOD AFTER 2005 (INCEPTION & FRANCES HA) COMPONENT 1C: BRITISH FILM AFTER 1995 (TRAINSPOTTING & THIS IS ENGLAND) Auteur (Bazin) Studio System Voyeurism Femme fatale Patriarchy Hays Code Acrophobia Aesthetic Classical Formalism Hitchcock Blonde Dolly zoom Dramatic irony Composition Male gaze (Mulvey) Auteur (Bazin) New Hollywood Social realism Anti-authoritarian Psychoanalysis Dystopia Analogy – Vietnam Distinctive stylistic features Binary oppositions (Levi-Strauss) Ideology Subvert/challenge Postcolonial (Gilroy) Spectatorship Ideology Postmodernism Simulation Mise-en-abyme Demographics Audience positioning Passive/active Preferred, negotiated, oppositional Auteur Spectacle Intertextuality Spectatorship Ideology Mumblecore Persona B/W cinematography Spectatorship Indie Hollywood Demographics Feminist critique Mass/niche Preferred, negotiated, oppositional Auteur - dialogue Narrative Ideology Performance Social Realism Britpop Character arc Aesthetic Feminist critique Auteur Cult fandom Adaptation – Irvine Welsh Counter-culture Franchise? Narrative Ideology Performance Social Realism Nationalism Thatcherism Character arc Aesthetic Auteur Political context Franchise? Far Left vs Far Right Open/closed ending Dystopia EDUQAS A LEVEL FILM STUDIES KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER COMPONENT 2A: WORLD CINEMA (PAN’S LABYRINTH & CITY OF GOD) COMPONENT 2B: DOCUMENTARY (STORIES WE TELL) COMPONENT 2C: SILENT FILM (BUSTER KEATON COMPILATION) COMPONENT 2D: EXPERIMENTAL (PULP FICTION) Formalism Historical/political context Composition Production design Ideology Auteur Context Postcolonial (Gilroy) Critical debates: The significance of digital technology in film. Filmmaker’s theories Kim Longinotto – invisible role of documentarian. Nick Broomfield – participatory and performative. Peter Watkins – docu-dramas and faux-documentaries. Michael Moore – participatory and performative. Metanarrative Truth as merely a concept Subjectivities of representation Critical debates: The realist and the expressive. Vaudeville Auteur Slapstick Persona Aesthetic Houdini – ‘Buster’ Chaplin/Laurel & Hardy/Lloyd Fatty Arbuckle/Virginia Rappe Long shot vs close up Cue cards vs gesture Stereotypes Two-reelers Dramatic irony Auteur Non-linear narrative Postmodernism Indie Hollywood Composition Audience positioning Intertextual reference Vintage soundtrack Femme fatale Film noir Dialogue / screenplay Mass/niche Ensemble cast - star persona Director Persona Cult fandom Formalism Historical/political context Ideology Aesthetic Auteur Context Postcolonial (Gilroy)
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