Essential Revision for A Level Film Studies

This comprehensive revision guide contains everything students need to know to succeed on their A Level Film Studies course.

Autorentext

Mark Dixon works as a principal examiner for Eduqas and is the head of Media and Film at Durham Sixth Form Centre. He is also the author of Essential Theory for Media A Level (also published by Routledge) as well as having written for the Guardian, Media Magazine, TES magazine and Wired.

Inhalt

Part One: Film Forms

1 Cinematography

2 Mise en scene and performance

3 Editing

4 Sound

5 Lighting

Part Two: Film Theories

6 Theories of narrative

7 Auteur-based approaches

8 Ideology

9 Spectatorship

Part Three: Contexts and forms

10 Silent cinema

11 Classical Hollywood 1930-60

12 Experimental film

13 New Hollywood 1961-90

14 Contemporary British cinema since 1995

15 Documentary film

16 Contemporary American cinema since 2005

Bibliography

Index