Component 1: Varieties of Film and Filmmaking (2h30m) 24th May (PM)
Q1: Hollywood 1930-1990 (40 Marks)
Classical Hollywood: Casablanca
New Hollywood: Blade Runner
Q2: American Film since 2005 (40 Marks)
Mainstream Film: No Country for Old Men
Independent Film: Winter’s Bone
Q3: British Film since 1995 (40 Marks)
Sightseers
Sweet Sixteen
Component 2: Global Filmmaking Perspectives (2h30m) 5th June (AM)
Q1: Global Film (40 Marks)
European Film: Pan’s Labyrinth
Outside Europe: City of God
Q2: Documentary Film (20 Marks)
Amy
Q3: Film Movements: Silent Cinema (20 Marks)
Buster Keaton Shorts: One Week, The Scarecrow, The High Sign & Cops
Q4: Film Movements: Experimental Film (20 Marks)
Pulp Fiction
Underlined are topics which are very likely to appear.
Casablanca & Blade Runner:
· Key Elements of Film Form
· Representation
· Aesthetics
· Contexts (Social, Institutional, Political)
· Auteur
No Country for Old Men & Winter’s Bone:
· Key Elements of Film Form
· Representation
· Aesthetics
· Contexts (Social, Institutional, Political)
· Ideology
· Spectatorship
Sweet Sixteen & Sightseers:
· Key Elements of Film Form
· Representation
· Aesthetics
· Contexts (Social, Institutional, Political)
· Ideology
· Narrative
Pan’s Labyrinth & City of God:
· Key Elements of Film Form
· Representation
· Aesthetics
· Contexts (Social, Institutional, Political)
Amy:
· Key Elements of Film Form
· Representation
· Aesthetics
· Contexts (Social, Institutional, Political)
· Critical Debate: Digital Film
· Filmmakers Theories
Buster Keaton Shorts:
· Key Elements of Film Form
· Representation
· Aesthetics
· Contexts (Social, Institutional, Political)
· Critical Debate: Realist and Expressive
Pulp Fiction:
· Key Elements of Film Form
· Representation
· Aesthetics
· Contexts (Social, Institutional, Political)
· Narrative
· Auteur