1. 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)