Pulp Fiction - Experimental film - introduction and Film analysis [EDUQAS]

This pack contains a 59-slide PowerPoitnt presentation and accompanying student booklet

This PowerPoint will take approx 3 lessons / hours and ends with an in class, timed assessment activity
The lessons covers:

• Starter - How do students interpret the term ‘experimental’ cinema? - discussion and feedback

• Introduce Pulp Fiction as our focus text, reinforce student areas, etc

• Show past paper questions - student read questions - Q&A session to address student’s initial concerns

• Read and evaluate the ‘Indicative Content’ provided by EDUQAS

• Define: Mainstream cinema

• Task - students to outline conventions of ‘mainstream’ cinema

• Define: Experimental Cinema

• Discussion task after definition provided

• Students discuss the ways a filmmaker can experiment with film form, approach to ideology and representation

Conventions of Experimental / Post-modern cinema

Intertextuality
Self-referential
Fragmentation of Time and Space
Homage
Pastiche
Parody
Hyper-reality
Non-sequitors

Consoidation task - screen fist 5 minutes from Une Chien Andalou (this can obviously be swapped out for your own examples/texts)

Part II - Starter - re-cap conventions of EXP cinema

• Students to work in pairs/groups to find their own examples of the Experimental conventions used in Pulp Fiction (could be set as a homework task)
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  Analysis of Pulp Fiction**

Part 1 - introductions - students are provided with a question ‘In What Ways Can Your Chosen Film be Considered Experimental’?

• Key points to include in the introduction to the answer are provided to students/
• Explain HIGH ART vs/ LOW ART as a convention of Post modern cinema
• Compare a scene from The Wire with a scene from Superfly* - analysis task and feedback ***
• This point links to the title card used to open the film
• Discussion of ‘Pulp Fiction novels’ and how *Pulp Fiction the film reflects the post-modern approach

Part II - Experimental Techniques

Comparison between ‘Road Wars’ scene from Fast and Furious 7, and the ‘Royale With Cheese’ sequence from PF
Student’s analyse in groups then feedback

Analysis of Butch and Marcellus’ first meeting - task: analysis and feedback - breakdown of all experimental approaches used the in the scene

Part III - Representation

• Students asks to discuss their views on representation of race and gender in PF
• feedback
• Introduce the view that Tarantino’s films subvert industry standard approaches to gender and racial representation
• Reading task - read section from book to refinforce and develop this argument
• students are encouraged to respond to this view and share their own thoughts on Tarantino’s approach
• Examples from PF provided to support student understanding

Assessment - timed assessment. Mark scheme included.