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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Mark Dixon, Dixon Mark
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 17 to 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9780367634506
• ISBN: 978-0-367-63450-6
• No. of pages: 338
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Films, cinema, Secondary Schools, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Secondary