A Level Film Studies

The Essential Introduction
4. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-80193-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 420 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

Reihe: Essentials

Building confidence through a careful, step-by-step approach, this book is an essential companion for students undertaking A Level Film Studies.

This book begins by establishing a basic understanding of film analysis, introducing film construction, mise en scène, cinematography, editing, sound, and performance. Key theoretical approaches to narrative, genre, representation, spectatorship, and authorship are then introduced, along with specific national cinemas from around the world. Next, students consider the unique experiences of silent cinema, experimental films, and documentaries. Finally, the focus shifts to evaluating creative approaches to students’ own filmmaking.

Thoroughly revised and updated to match exam specifications for both Eduqas and OCR, the fourth edition of this essential textbook features:

- Case studies and activities relating to a number of films, including those new to the syllabus such as Get Out, Cléo from 5 to 7, and Belfast, each clearly signposted to the relevant board and specification

- Fully integrated online resources, cross-referenced within the text, to help students and instructors dive deeper into case studies and exam prep

- Even more chapter summaries and breakout boxes containing definitions of key terms, theories, and theorists throughout.

Designed to be comprehensive and easy-to-use, A Level Film Studies: The Essential Introduction covers everything students need to succeed in their exams as well as inspiring further study.

This book is supported by e-resources for students and instructors, including additional case studies, revision checklists, and key approaches to assessment.

Zielgruppe

AS/A2 and Further/Vocational Education

Autoren/Hrsg.

White, John

Casey Benyahia, Sarah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmführer, Filmkritik
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: This is film studies

Part I - Film form and analysis

Chapter 1 – Mise en scène

Chapter 2 – Cinematography

Chapter 3 – Editing

Chapter 4 – Sound

Chapter 5 – Performance

Part II - Theoretical approaches and critical debates

Chapter 6 – Narrative and genre

Chapter 7 – Representation and ideology

Chapter 8 – Spectatorship

Chapter 9 – Authorship

Chapter 10 – Historical, social, political, and cultural contexts

Part III – Hollywood and US cinema

Chapter 11 – Classical Hollywood, 1930–1960

Chapter 12 – New Hollywood, 1961–1990

Chapter 13 – American film post-2012

Part IV – National cinemas, European cinema, and global cinema

Chapter 14 – British film since 1995

Chapter 15 – European film

Chapter 16 – Global cinema

Part V - Further varieties of film experience

Chapter 17 – Silent cinema

Chapter 18 – Experimental film

Chapter 19 – Documentary film: theory and practice

Part VI - Understanding film through creative practice

Chapter 20 – Researching and constructing a short film

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sarah Casey Benyahia currently teaches Film Studies at A level and is an experienced senior examiner. She is the author of several books, including Crime (Routledge, 2011), Doing Film Studies with Claire Mortimer (Routledge, 2013), and Teaching Film and TV Documentary (2008). She has also contributed chapters to Death and Crises in the Hispanic World: Cultural Responses (2020), Narratives of Place in Film and Literature (2018), Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy (2013), and The Routledge Encyclopedia of Films (Routledge, 2015).

John White is the author of British Cinema and a Divided Nation (2021), The Contemporary Western: An American Genre Post-9/11 (2019), European Art Cinema (Routledge, 2017), and Westerns (Routledge, 2011). He co-edited The Routledge Encyclopedia of Films (Routledge, 2015), Fifty Key American Films (Routledge, 2009), and Fifty Key British Films (Routledge, 2008).