Essential Revision for A Level Film Studies

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-63449-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 348 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm, Gewicht: 373 g

This comprehensive revision guide contains everything students need to know to succeed on their A Level Film Studies course.

Essential Revision for A Level Film Studies features engaging and accessible chapters to help learners develop a deeper understanding of the key elements of film form, including cinematography, mise en scène, performance, lighting, editing and sound. The book offers detailed explanations of the specialist study areas required for the A Level course, including auteur theory, spectatorship, genre, key critical debates, narrative and ideology, as well as overviews of key film movements like French New Wave cinema, German Expressionism and Soviet Montage. Also included are practical exercises designed to help students apply essential concepts to film set texts, sample exam responses for both Eduqas and OCR exam boards, and challenge activities designed to help students secure premium grades.

With its practical approach and comprehensive scope, Essential Revision for A Level Film Studies is the ideal resource for students and teachers.

The book also features a companion website at EssentialFilmRevision.com, which includes a wide range of supporting resources including revision flashcards and worksheets, a bank of film set text applications for exam questions for all film specifications, and classroom-ready worksheets that teachers can use alongside the book to help students master A Level Film exam content.

Zielgruppe

AS/A2 and Further/Vocational Education

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dixon, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part One: Film Forms

1 Cinematography

2 Mise en scene and performance

3 Editing

4 Sound

5 Lighting

Part Two: Film Theories

6 Theories of narrative

7 Auteur-based approaches

8 Ideology

9 Spectatorship

Part Three: Contexts and forms

10 Silent cinema

11 Classical Hollywood 1930-60

12 Experimental film

13 New Hollywood 1961-90

14 Contemporary British cinema since 1995

15 Documentary film

16 Contemporary American cinema since 2005

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mark Dixon works as a principal examiner for Eduqas and is the head of Media and Film at Durham Sixth Form Centre. He is also the author of Essential Theory for Media A Level (also published by Routledge) as well as having written for the Guardian, Media Magazine, TES magazine and Wired.