ABSTRACT

A2 Film Studies: The Essential Introduction gives students the confidence to tackle every part of the WJEC A2 Level Film Studies course. The authors, who have wide ranging experience as teachers, examiners and authors, introduce students step by step, to the skills involved in the study of film. The second edition has been re-designed and re-written to follow the new WJEC A2 syllabus for 2009 teaching onwards and is supported by a companion website at www.alevelfilmstudies.co.uk offering further advice and activities.

There is a chapter for each exam topic including:

  • The small scale research project
  • The creative project
  • Aspects of a national cinema - Bollywood; Iranian; Japanese; and Mexican
  • International Film Styles - German and/or Soviet; Surrealism; Neo-Realism; and New Waves
  • Specialist studies - Urban Stories; and Empowering Women
  • Spectatorship topics - Early cinema before 1917; Documentary; Experimental and expanded film/video; and Popular film and emotional responses
  • The single film critical study - every film covered

Specifically designed to be user friendly, the second edition of A2 Film Studies: The Essential Introduction has a new text design to make the book easy to follow, includes more than sixty colour images and is packed with features such as:

  • case studies relevant to the 2009 specification
  • activities on films like All About My Mother, 10, Vertigo and City of God
  • key terms
  • example exam questions
  • suggestions for further reading and website resources.

Matched to the current WJEC specification, A2 Film Studies: The Essential Introduction covers everything students need to study as part of the course.

chapter |20 pages

INTRODUCTION

part |2 pages

Part 1 FILM RESEARCH AND CREATIVE PROJECTS (FM3)

chapter 1|5 pages

INTRODUCTION TO FM3

chapter 2|19 pages

THE SMALL SCALE RESEARCH PROJECT

chapter 3|22 pages

CREATIVE PROJECTS

part |2 pages

Part 2 VARIETIES OF FILM EXPERIENCE – ISSUES AND DEBATES (FM4)

chapter 4|8 pages

INTRODUCTION TO FM4

chapter 5|20 pages

BOLLYWOOD 1990 TO THE PRESENT

chapter 6|25 pages

IRANIAN CINEMA 1990 TO THE PRESENT

chapter 7|20 pages

JAPANESE CINEMA 1950 TO 1970

chapter 8|18 pages

MEXICAN CINEMA 1990 TO THE PRESENT

chapter 9|22 pages

GERMAN AND SOVIET CINEMAS OF THE 1920s

chapter 10|17 pages

SURREALISM

chapter 11|28 pages

NEO-REALISM

chapter 12|21 pages

NEW WAVES

chapter 14|19 pages

SPECIALIST STUDY 2: EMPOWERING WOMEN

part |2 pages

Part 3 VARIETIES OF FILM EXPERIENCE (FM4): SPECTATORSHIP TOPICS

chapter 15|26 pages

SPECTATORSHIP AND EARLY CINEMA BEFORE 1917

chapter 16|29 pages

SPECTATORSHIP AND DOCUMENTARY

chapter 17|20 pages

EXPERIMENTAL AND EXPANDED FILM/VIDEO

chapter 18|19 pages

POPULAR FILM AND EMOTIONAL RESPONSE

part |2 pages

Part 4 VARIETIES OF FILM EXPERIENCE (FM4): SINGLE FILM – CRITICAL STUDY