Task 13) What is Cultural Context?
A) Research each of the Economic, Geographical, Historical, Institutional, Political, Social, Technological contextual frames.
B) Now create analysis of the film you selected using at least two of these descriptors.
C) Now we must pick another film: one from a DIFFERENT cultural context: Economic, Geographical, Historical, Institutional, Political, Social, Technological
Check In: Will your study work?
DOES IT FIT IN ANY OF THE FILM FOCUS BELOW?
• Film movements (such as French New Wave, German expressionism, Third Cinema, and so on)
• Film genre and film style (such as film noir, romantic comedy, science fiction, Western, and so on)
• Film theory (such as auteur theory, feminism, Marxist film theory, and so on)
Make them think a bit too. After all, it's an IB course and if they don't do even the basic research to justify the choice, how to expect them to do a 10 minutes comparative study on that?
Here is an overview of the Comparative Study with assessment criteria and examples to inspire and guide you.
Please use this to map out your comparative study and document your process as you plan your approach to this complex task.