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647. uk cinema figures

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634. paranormal activity jonathan ross

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628. Make a free website!

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618. Paranormal activity new Blair witch Project?

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615. Beat sheet links

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http://www.craftyscreenwriting.com/excerpts/TV03.html

http://dannystack.blogspot.com/2005/12/beat-sheets.html

http://lucyvee.blogspot.com/2008/05/outlines-beat-sheets-treatments.html

mcu.edu.tw/~vedrash/Courses/ELC/Fall_07/…BeatSheet/explan.doc

http://www.beatsheetcentral.com/

606. UK Film by the film council

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605. Total Film News

August 24, 2009 1 comment

577. FS6 section b exam question

Regulation & censorship:

Either by reference to contemporary cinema or an earlier period, discuss how regulation and censorship have been challenged by social, cultural or technological change.

Categories: A2 Film studies, FS6

575. dvd cover dimensions

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563. dolly and crane movements

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561. Shot types and movements link

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558. Why you should log shots – and downloadable shotlog

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544. FS6 Section C exam approaches

April 23, 2009 Leave a comment

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Messages & Values: Critical Approaches (15 marks)

1. Genre & Authorship approaches
2. Performance Studies
3. Film Interpretation and Social/Cultural Studies
4. Gendered Film Studies
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1. Genre and Authorship Studies
This topic allows you to review the work you undertook for your Auteur coursework project.

What are the benefits and limitations of using an auteur approach to ‘reading’ (or making sense of) a film and understanding its significance?
What are the benefits and limitations of a genre approach?
What broader issues of ‘making’ meaning emerge from these benefits and limitations? What are the implications of each approach?
Can you use examples of films to articulate which approach you prefer and explain your reasons?

Revision:
1. Choose two film titles, each of which offers the opportunity for either
approach (i.e. Blade Runner, Stagecoach, The 39 Steps).
2. List what the auteur approach requires you to do with each film.
3. List what the genre approach requires you to do or know.
4. What does each approach add to the understanding of each film.
5. What would a genre approach do for someone wanting to understand or interpret each?
6. Assess the value (for you?) of each approach. Does each lead in a different direction, into a different area, to one or more areas? What are these directions/ areas? Do they require special skills? Do they lead to understanding anything more than film?
7. Do these areas of understanding provide criteria by which to judge each approach? Does one, for example, lead to more interesting areas of meaning – or just to more levels of meaning?

4. Gendered Film Studies
How does a focus on gender contribute to the understanding of meaning and value in films?
What is the ‘male’ camera debate?
Does film language create a gendered ‘look’?
What is to be gained by considering the position of a male or female spectator?
Does mainstream film represent male and female characters differently? Might this determine whether the spectator can identify with or objectify the character?
How might gender affect the construction of male and female stereotypes and/or stars?

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541. More Tim Burton – Auteur study definition

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540. Contemporary British cinema – an overview

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538. British film – a new golden era?

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537. industry expert on financing, marketing, distribution

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536. james bond multimedia site

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