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Identity in Trainspotting
This is a 50 slide full colour PowerPoint Presentation on national identity versus British identity (as well as multicultural, globalized Britain) in the 1996 film Trainspotting (Danny Boyle).
This is very useful for** EDUQAS A Level Film Studies** because of the focus on representations in the film, including how particular aspects of **mise-en-scene **link to identity, narrative themes and character.
This presentation can be used to study the film’s binary oppositions and how Scotland and London come to represent different outlooks, rather than just different geographical locations.
Global Cinema Comparative Study: MUSTANG & TIMBUKTU
This 23 full colour slide presentation offers A-Level Film Studies Students many interactive exercises that will help them to compare and contrast these two films from global cinema. Mustang (Erguven, 2015, Turkey/France) tells the story of five sisters living in rural Turkey, where village and local Islamic traditions are still strictly enforced. Timbuktu (Sissako, 2014, Mauritania/France) dramatises the occupation of Northern Mali by Jihadist Islamists in 2012, and revolves around the real life story of a couple who were stoned to death for having a child out of wedlock.
The two films are studied as excellent examples of post-millennial global cinema and offer many points of comparison.
Both films offer means of studying religious debates, culture and global politics.
This presentation should fill an entire one hour lesson and may be extended into longer or more developed exercises.
TIMBUKTU - a film by Abderrahmane Sissako (2014)
This 40-slide full colour Power Point Presentation allows for a diverse range of topics to be studied. It covers history, culture, religious themes and filmmaking/media studies.
The film is about the destruction of culture and heritage, as well as occupation/colonialism, religious freedom, and human rights. The presentation also focuses on the film and its production, including representations and issues addressed by the filmmaker.
The film was produced to include the languages of the region in which it is set, including French, Tamasheq, English and other African dialects.
This resource facilitates rich discussion on topics such as: historical events, religious law, the value of cultural preservation and women’s rights.
It is appropriate for students aged 16 - 18. The violence of some events could be triggering for younger years.
British Film Since 1995 (Eduqas A Level Film Studies Revision)
This 30 full colour , interactive PowerPoint Presentation is the ideal revision tool to prepare students for the A-Level Film Studies exam paper (Component 1C.).
THe two films refrenced are Trarispotting (Boyle, 1996) and Fish Tank (Arnold, 2009).
The resource closely follows the Eduqas Examination Board’s advice and guidance on how to approach ideologies. There are example questions from past papers, discussion prompts and class exercises as well as an essay structure scaffold.
This could be used on conjunction with the two films to teach ideologies and narrative, and provides example binary analyses - a tool for ideological analysis that is transferable to any narrative.
What is Tolerance?
This exercise provides interactive discussion prompters and tasks that help students to reflect carefully on what they think tolerance really means. It should form the basis for two 1-hour lessons, for secondary students between ages 14 - 18.
The aim is to foster a critical discussion about tolerant societies, and to help students to reflect upon whether there is a distinction between tolerance and cultural/ moral relativism.
How can tolerance be a principled approach that is fair to both individuals and communities?
Is tolerance fair to **all **citizens?
Does a tolerant state promote genuine** intellectual** diversity?
How can a state promote tolerance without becoming an intolerant state, i.e. without promoting censorship of controversial ideas?
Understanding Tolerance Presentation
This is a full color 27 slide animated PowerPoint presentation. It forms the basis of an assembly or a full two hour lesson (depending upon time taken for class discussion/debate).
It is a very interactive tool designed to prompt discussion and debate and to get youngsters thinking for themselves and reflecting on the complexities and problems associated with tolerance. It encourages them to actively define tolerance, and to reflect upon their definition, based on careful analysis of real life cases and examples.
This lesson can be used can be used in an American or British context. It would work with a wide variety of age groups and can help in teaching citizenship, PSHE, RS, or British Values.
It could also work well as a starter exercise for the study of Liberalism (politics).
Cinema Vérité: a Revolution in Documentary Style
This is a** fully animated** and illustrated (with helpful links integrated) overview of the Cinéma Vérité film movement, comprising 44 slides. Useful for teaching the EDUQAS A-LEVEL in FILM STUDIES (Documentary Component) as well as the IB in Film or Media Studies. The content covers how Cinema Verite ** evolved in the United States, UK, Canada and France. *A- Level FIlm Studies Tutors can use this for two entire lessons.
The PowerPoint presentation is to be used over a two-hour lesson and includes breaks for discussion and feedback, as well as the option to use the built-in links to video clips / examples. The presentation includes pictures, text, exercises and video links.
It is useful for teaching at A-Level, the International Baccalaureate, or as an introductory lesson at University Level.
Milos Forman Auteur Director Poster
This full colour poster outlines Czech-American film director Milos Forman’s key directorial attributes and achievements.
Perfect for the Auteur study question on the Eduqas Film Studies A-Level curriculum.
FILM STUDIES. Component 2B: Documentary: the significance of DIGITAL TECH
This fully interactive, colour slide presentation comprises 25 slides which include links to relevant YouTube videos, classroom exercises and exam questions.
The case study used for this particular slide presentation is ‘Sisters in Law’ but any of the films on the specification could be substituted.
This is a valuable teachring resource for the EDUQAS FILM STUDIES A-LEVEL.
EDUQAS A-Level Film Studies - introduction to SPECTATORSHIP Issues
This resource closely follows the EDUQAS A-Level specification and the Lisa Wardle textbook to offer teachers a comprehensive introduction to the main issues around spectatorship. This is especially useful in teaching Component 1, Section B, American Film Since 2005.
Topics covered include active versus passive spectatorship, viewer positioning, analysis of how film form and narrative shape spectator response, viewing contexts, demographic factors, intertextuality, preferred, negotiated and oppositional readings ( Stuart Hall’s theory) with a few case study application suggestions (CAROL, Haynes, 2015).
The resource includes interactive exercises and is presented with nice visuals and text/picture animations.
Approx length of time - 1 entire lesson (1 hour).
Number of slides: 38.
New Hollywood of the 1970s PowerPoint Presentation
This is a full color 20-slide presentation with links to helpful film clips as illustrations.
It forms a class lesson for A-Level film Studies or equivalent and gives helpful context for films produced at this exciting, director-led period of of Hollywood cinema.
Captain Fantastic: Ideology & Spectatorship
This is a 27 slide interactive PowerPoint to prepare pupils for the Eduqas A Level Film Studies, Component 1B. exam.
Ideology and Spectatorship are explored and applied to the film Captain Fantastic (Ross, 2016) with lots of questions for pupils to ponder and discuss throughout.
Helpful ‘talking points’ about how to interpret the ideological positioning of the Cash family.
Theory: Laura Mulvey’s ‘male gaze’ is touched on as is Stuart Hall’s reception theory. The presentation is designed to provide two-hour lesson plan.
Scottish Identity in TRAINSPOTTING
This study of the 1996 film TRAINSPOTTING by Danny Boyle explores how Scottish identity and culture are represented in the film.
This is a 46 Slide PowerPoint Presentation and it comprises sufficient material for a comprehensive lesson plan. This is useful for media studies, film studies and cultural studies. The resource explores how stereotypes, identity and representations are constructed in a media text.
A Marxist Analysis of TRAINSPOTTING
This 35-slide PowerPoint Presentation can be used for the ‘ideologies’ study of Trainspotting for the Eduqas A Level Film Studies Component 1C. (British Films).
It provides a full interactive 2 hour lesson plan with focus on exams. Marxist ideology is introduced gently with a few key concepts including: class struggle, alienation, exploitation, consumerism, commodity fetishisaton and false consciousness.
Marxist concepts are applied to particular aspects of the film’s mise-en-scene and to particular sequences. Issues are explored through discussion with lots of question prompts to allow discussion and debate.
Sisters in Law (Documentary) Close Study
This 37 full colour slide presentation provides an overview of the issues and filmmaking practices deployed in the production of Sisters in Law, a documentary by British filmmaker Kim Longinotto and Cameroonian filmmaker Florence Ayisi. The lesson revolves around the cinema verite practices used, transnational feminism, ‘post-feminism’ and its clichés, issues of representation, and the struggle for women’s rights within societies that are culturally mixed and traditionally patriarchal. Although these are complex issues, the resource is aimed at an A-Level (Year 12 / 13) learner, following the EDUQAS Film Studies Curriculum.
For this reason, there is focus on the filmmaking practices used as well as the human rights issues within the documentary. The presentation ends with an exam question from the Eduqas A Level Film Studies Specification, so that film studies students can apply the learning from the presentation. However, this resource could also form an interesting resource for social studies, media studies or African cultural studies. The human rights issues make this a widely applicable resource that could be useful across a variety of subjects. The content should fill a two-hour lesson and provides ample scope for class discussions and (for A-Level FIlm Students) exam practice.
Eduqas A-Level Film: Taxi Tehran (Contextual Study)
This full color, animated, interactive PowerPoint Presentation includes 49 slides with detailed discussion of context for the 2015 film. The context closely follows the Lisa Wardle Textbook to prepare A Level film studies students for the Component 2A. examination question. There are practice questions, exercises, and discussion prompts to get students involved in an interactive lesson. The resource should cover a full two hour lesson.
In addition this resource can be used for a contemporary cultural study of life in Iran. Panahi is an internationally celebrated director whose work (including Taxi Tehran) has won critical acclaim and major awards. This film offers a “way in” to Iran including its theocratic regime, its history and its artistic culture.
Themes explored: Women in Iran, Ethnicity, Representations of generational differences, history, crime & punishment, political dissent and its consequences and the nature of filmmaking itself.
EDUQAS Component 2.Global Filmmaking Perspectives, Section B. Documentary Film
This presentation is based on insights from Patricia White’s article ‘Cinema Solidarity: The Documentary Practice of Kim Longinotto’ from Cinema Journal 46, No. 1, Fall 2006.
Using Sisters in Law (Ayisi and Longinotto) as the central case study, this 30-slide presentation forms the basis of an hour-long lesson and concludes with a past exam question.
Ideal for teaching EDUQAS A-LEVEL** FILM STUDIES**, this resource focuses on Kim Longinotto’s documentary practice and ‘theory’, allowing students to contextualise her approach in terms of wider feminist debates around the position and role of Western feminists vis-a-vis feminists from other cultures and national contexts.
A-Level Film Studies: Sunrise (Murnau, 1927) Close Study
This GERMAN EXPRESSIONIST film from the late silent period showcases many features of German Expessionist cinema, as well as being a key example of a film made in Hollywood for an American audience. Made in 1927 by Fox Studio, this film forms the basis of a lesson around German Expressionist cinema and its visual techniques. This 32-Slide presentation provides lots of detail as well as explanation about how certain visual effects were achieved.
Ideal for teachers fdollowing the EDUQAS Film Studies A-Level, Component 2.
Fallen Angels (Wong Kar-Wei) - a narrative study
This fully animated, interactive 20 Slide illustrated Power-Point presentation forms the basis of a lesson, ideal for a post-screening discussion of narrative in Wong Kar-Wei’s 1995 Hong Kong New Wave film FALLEN ANGELS. The presentation provides several opportunities to pause and discuss aspects of narrative in the
film and encourages students to think about the ways in which Wong’s cinema breaks away from conventional genre storytelling methods.
The presentation is ideal for the Global CInema / Experimental Cinema component of EDUQAS Film Studies A-Level or for any film studies course interested in Hong Kong New Wave, Auteur studies, or Global Cinema.
The Cinema of Wong Kar-wei: an introduction
Suitable for teaching the EDUQAS FILM STUDIES A-LEVEL, this resource comprises a 23-slide presentation giving an overview of the distinctive features of Wong Kar-wei’s films. Useful for the EDUQAS A-LEVEL film studies Component 2: Global Filmmaking perspectives, Section D, Modern Experimental Film, this resources is fully animated and contains links to illustrative You Tube videos.
This presentation provides an introduction to the cinema of Won Kar-wei and works well as background / contextualisation of CHUNGKING EXPRESS or FALLEN ANGELS.
time: 1 hour