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Reading for FILM STUDIES A-Level (OCR)

Component A Film History

Film form in US cinema from the silent era to 1990

Topic We will be studying: Recommended Reading

Silent Era ● The Gold Rush (Chaplin, 1925) ● The Kid (Chaplin, 1921) ● The Circus (Chaplin, 1928) ● The Great Dictator (Chaplin, 1940)

1930-1960 ● Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958) ● The Birds (Hitchcock, 1963) ● Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960) ● North by Northwest (Hitchcock, 1959)

1961-1990 ● (Scorsese, 1980) ● Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976) ● (Scorsese, 1990)

European cinema

Surrealism ● Un Chien Andalou (Buñuel, ● Research Surrealism 1929) ● Look into the work of Dali and ● L’Age d’Or (Buñuel, 1930) Buñuel.

German Expressionism ● Metropolis (Lang, 1927) ● Nosferatu (Murnau, 1922) ● The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (Wiene, 1920) ● Frankenstein (Whale, 1931) ● Alice in Wonderland (Burton, 2010) ● Corpse Bride (Burton, 2005)

Component B Critical Approaches

Contemporary British and US Film

Topic We will be studying: Recommended Reading

Contemporary British and ● (Mendes 2012) ● Dr No (Young, 1962) US Film ● EITHER Star Wars: The Force ● Star Wars: The Last Hope Awakens (Abrams, 2016) Episode IV (Lucas, 1977) ● OR Guardians of the Galaxy ● Iron Man (Favreau, 2008) (Gunn, 2014) ● Thor (Branagh, 2011)

Documentary

Documentary ● Citizenfour (Poitras, 2014) ● Research Poitras and the other documentary films she has made Reading for FILM STUDIES A-Level (OCR)

● Research Grierson and Pennebaker on Documentary Filmmaking

Ideology

CONFLICT ● (Bigelow, ● Research the Algerian War 2006) ● Research the Iraq war and ● The Battle of Algiers America’s involvement (Pontecorvo, 1966) ● Research South African aparteid ● District 9 (Blomkamp, 2009) ● Elysium (Blomkamp, 2013) ● Queimada (Pontecorvo, 1969) ● Zero Dark Thirty (Bigelow, 2012)

Other Resources: ❏ OCR Film Studies A Level Website ❏ Edgbarrow Film Studies Playlist ❏ YouTube - Crash Course, Cinema Cartography, The Media Insider, Screen and Sound ❏ Oxford Dictionary of Film Studies ❏ BBC iPlayer Documentaries ❏ New York Film Academy Resources and Articles ❏ An Introduction to Film Studies (2011) ❏ Film Art: An Introduction (Bordwell & Thompson, 2010) ❏ Film as Film: Understanding and judging movies (Perkins, 1993) ❏ Introduction to Documentary (Nichols, 2001) ❏ Empire Magazine https://www.empireonline.com/ ❏ Total Film Magazine https://www.gamesradar.com/uk/totalfilm/ ❏ SFX Magazine https://www.gamesradar.com/uk/sfx/