Coursework Module 6

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A Study of National Cinema with either: 

• Historical contextualisation
• Foreign cinema contextualisation

What is National Cinema?

Coursework rules:

No texts that have already been taught in class or last year

Centres must not ‘teach’ the content for the areas of research - it is expected that each candidate’s work will reflect individual choice of research topic.

Teachers will provide candidates with an overview of how to:

• Make sense of ideas and theories
• Contextualise their investigation using secondary research sources (eg the work of recognised theorists)
• Analyse primary materials (textual analysis of films)

Must be Film Theory or Historical Context relevant to your area of study eg: 

• British National Identity (Higson)
• Feminism (Mulvey/ EA Kaplan)
• Postmodernism (Jameson - recycling ideas, Lyotard - a lack of Narrative or Genre structure)
• Psychoanalysis (Freud)
• Star Theory (Dyer)
• Marxism (Ideology and Dominant Ideas to maintain a class system)
• Authorship (Bazin - The Auteur)

In your study for Module 6 with Mr Dixon you will be taught how to:

• formulate hypotheses
• evaluate and draw conclusions from their findings
• present findings
• reference source materials appropriately.

Your study will be on: 

• Genre
• Representation
• Narrative
• Themes
• Values (messages)

Group 1, 2, 3: Historical influence on contemporary (2003-pres)

Classic Westerns and Django Unchained

Hammer Horror/Video Nasties to Modern Horror

Gangster/Mafia films influence on Modern Gangster

War films influence on Inglorious Basterds

French New Wave on US Independent

Dogma 95 influence on US Independent

German Expressionism influence on Tim Burton

Group 4: Foreign & English Adaptation

Girl with Dragon Tattoo

Old Boy to modern equivalent

Ringu to The Ring

Group 5: The representation of minorities/women in a national cinema

Bollywood (Ind)

Volver (Spa)

Once were Warriors (NZ)

City of God (Braz)

 

The research study should be presented as a sustained piece of work of between you as a group 2500 - 3000 words and include:

1. an introduction explaining the focus the research
2. a description of key texts both primary and secondary (textual studies of films and theorist/critics analysis, contexts surrounding its production)
3. the aims of the research - what the candidate is seeking to find out/prove hypothesis or series of research questions.
4. a discussion of ideas, texts, and secondary research in light of the candidate's aims
5. conclusions - a clear statement of what the candidate has discovered in response to their aims
6. a bibliography and filmography.

• Make sense of ideas and theories
• Contextualise their investigation using secondary research sources (eg the work of recognised theorists)
• Analyse primary materials (textual analysis of films)