Category Archives: Film Studies A2
How well does the current system of film classification and censorship serve the British public?
BBFC http://www.sbbfc.co.uk – Students http://www.bbfc.co.uk Complaints http://www.sbbfc.co.uk/Site%20Articles/whatareyoucomplainingabout.asp How well the system works Who does it, how, does it work How films are classified http://www.sbbfc.co.uk/student_guide_classification1.asp Examiners normally view video and DVD submissions on their own – called solo viewing.A large proportion … Continue reading
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Either by reference to contemporary cinema or an earlier period, discuss how regulation and censorship have been challenged by social, cultural or technological change.
Censorship laws have been challenged by almost every technological change in the medium. There are always new films ready to come out on new or existing formats, ready to challenge the regulations of the industry. For example, the video nasties. … Continue reading
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Script Evaluation
As I worked alone on this project and not in a group, all of this work is entirely my own, and all of the research and drafts were my own personal work, with no contribution from others whatsoever. I feel … Continue reading
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A Clockwork Orange – Controversy
http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/0012.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clockwork_Orange_(film) http://www.moria.co.nz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=826Itemid=1 http://www.kinema.uwaterloo.ca/yvo961.htm
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Censorship Documentary Notes
Movie Censorship ITC – Independent Television Commission – OFCOM OFCOM – Television regulators Natural Born Killers Copycat Murders MTV style Straw Dogs Rape Scenes Exorcist Religion Blasphemy Texas Chainsaw Massacre Killings Pulp Fiction Drugs – Glamorising Trainspotting More human Censorship … Continue reading
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City of God – Mock exam
The international success of city of god has been explained because ‘it’s a film that deals with social concerns, but expresses them in the style of MTV.’ In reference to the style of specific sequences, discuss this view of the … Continue reading
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Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Research
This is not a film that we are looking at, this is just wide research on the background information on films. This will help me to compare and contrast with the films that I would be looking at. Jet Li … Continue reading
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Complete Black Cash Script
BLACK CASH Opening Scene Int. Office – Day [Grainy, old, flashback style effect. The Mob Boss is sitting in his room, classical music playing in the background (Cosi fan tutte Act II – No. 10 Aria). Cuts to a close … Continue reading
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Textual Analysis – City of God Opening Sequence
Knives – Danger Depicts violence Music – Juxtaposition – Diegetic Title, Forecast Main character Death, Chickens, Chicken – Rocket Chicken escaping favela Chicken tied up, bound Worried Chicken Malnourished chicken Laid back, Party Atmosphere Blood, foreshadowing Chicken Hunted Shooting the … Continue reading
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