SECTION C BRITISH CINEMA

 Section C – British film since 1995 (two-film study) Trainspotting /Shaun of the Dead

Whichever question you're considering , the best advice is to focus on a close analysis of the opening and closing scenes of both films , as a narrative question may well focus on these , and they're excellent scenes to analyse.  

KEY AREAS 

either

• Performance and mise-en-scène

EXAM QUESTION EXAMPLE :

How are  performance and mise en scene used to create meaning in your chosen films ? 

How are performance and mise en scene used to introduce and define characters in your chosen films ?

 

   or

 • Narrative

EXAM QUESTION EXAMPLE :

How do your chosen films use binary opposites to explore their social and emotional themes ?

How do the narrative resolutions in your chosen films reinforce messages about the society in which they are set ?

Question might also include evaluating how useful an ideological approach was in understanding  a narrative feature of your chosen films  ( e/g the resolution/binary oppositions etc. ) in which case you would look at how useful it was to study Trainspotting and Shaun of the Dead  through the social background /class of the characters and the political contexts of the setting e.g Thatcherism  / gentrified middle-class London.

EXAM QUESTION EXAMPLE :

How useful has an ideological approach been in understanding the narrative resolutions/binary opposites  of your chosen films ?

 However this ideology question is probably more likely to be a question is probably more likely to come up in Section B ( American Film  after 2005 ) as Ideology is the exam topic