| TOPIC AREA | FILM 1 | FILM2 | CONTEXT | QUESTION |
| Representation of masculinity | Beau Travail (Denis,1999) | Fight Club (Fincher,1999) | Social Historical Cultural | How is masculinity represented in ‘Beau Travail’ and ‘Fight Club’? |
Monthly Archives: April 2023
Filters
Comparative Study
| TOPIC AREA | FILM ONE | FILM TWO | CONTEXT | QUESTION |
| Genre Theory Police Buddy Movie Crime Film Subgenre | Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright, 2007) | Lethal Weapon (Richard Donner, 1987) | Social Historical Cultural | How has the police buddy movie crime subgenre of crime film changed over time/context? With reference to the films… |
Comparative Study
| TOPIC AREA | FILM ONE | FILM TWO | CONTEXT | QUESTION |
| Film Movement: French New Wave. | Breathless, (Godard, 1960). | La Haine, (Kassovitz, 1995). | Social Historical Cultural, (originating within France). | How did the French New Wave Film Movement influence directors of the 1990s & 2000s within France? |
Film Comparative Task
Comparative Study
Comparative
| TOPIC AREA | FILM ONE | FILM TWO | CONTEXT | QUESTION |
| Genre Theory Coming of Age | The 400 Blows (Truffaut, 1959) | Lady Bird (Gerwig, 2017) | Social Historical Cultural | How has the coming-of-age film subgenre changed over time? With reference to the films… |
Soviet Constructivism- Task 6
Find examples from film from at least 3 of the Methods of Montage mentioned above. (Illustrate)
The Intellectual Method– This can be seen in “Strike” as the shots of people getting murdered by police are juxtaposed with the shots of a cow getting slaughtered, representing how there is no hope in saving them.
Rhythmic Montage- rhythmic” montage method from Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin‘s “Odessa steps” sequence.
Tonal montage-Example from Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin, which showcases the “tonal” method of montage.
This is an example of how cutting certain shots together, when combined with the context images and the musical accompaniment, could create tone.
Soviet Constructivism- Task 5
Identify at least one other film which appears to have been influenced by the visual style of Classic Soviet Constructivist Cinema + illustration and reasons for choice.
Man With a Movie Camera 1929 by Dziga Vertov.
Man with a Movie Camera is famous for the range of cinematic techniques such as, fast motion, slow motion, freeze frames, match cuts, jump cuts, split screens, extreme close-ups, tracking shots and so on, representing classic Soviet Constructivist Cinema.
Soviet Constructivism- Task 4
Name at least 3 other films identified by critics as classic Constructivist films + illustrations.
Soviet Constructivism- Task 3
How does Gerasimov Institute operate now?
To this day, VGIK is one of the most impressive and prestigious film schools in the world. The school creates programs of secondary professional education.
he institute was founded in 1919 by the film director Vladimir Gardin as the Moscow Film School being the first and oldest film school in the world.
