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British Cinema
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Media and Collective Identity
• How do the contemporary media represent nations, regions and ethnic / social / collective groups of people in different ways?
• How does contemporary representation compare to previous time periods?
• What are the social implications of different media representations of groups of people?
• To what extent is human identity increasingly ‘mediated’?
• Candidates might explore combinations of any media representation across two media, or two different representations across two media.
• Some examples are:
National cinema, television representations, magazines and gender, representations of youth and youth culture, post-9/11
representations of Islam, absence / presence of people with disability in two media.
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What makes a film British?
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What do you expect from a British film?
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Defining British Film
The British Film Institute divides films into the following categories:
• Category A: films made with British money, personnel and resources
• Category B: films co-funded with money from Britain and from foreign investment, but the majority of finance, cultural content & personnel are British
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Defining British Film
• Category C: films with mostly foreign (but non-USA) investment and a small British input, either financially or creatively
• Category D: films made in the UK with (usually) British cultural content, but financed fully or partly by American companies
• Category E: American films with some British involvement
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How many British films can you think of?
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British film has always had its ups and downs
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Unfortunately, the British film industry has never been capable of generating worldwide commercial success on its own.
This is partly down to the major power, success and control of…
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The basic fact is that the British cinema market is too small for the British film industry to successfully produce Hollywood-style blockbusters over a sustained period
UK Film Industry
Hollywood
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Task…• In pairs you will be given a decade from the 30s to the 00s
• You will produce a short presentation about British Cinema in your decade
• You must look at extracts from at least 2 of the major films from your time period
• Who produced them? Who directed them? Who starred in them? What genre of films were they? Were these type of films popular during that decade and if so why?
• How commercially & financially successful were British films during this time? Can you find any stats and facts to back this up?
• Were there any government laws or acts passed during your 10 year period that were designed to help the British film industry?
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The 1930s
•The 39 Steps•As You Like It•The Edge of the World•The Man Who Knew Too Much
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1940s
• The Red Shoes
• The Third Man
• Brief Encounter
• Kind Hearts and Coronets
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1950s
• The Bridge Over The River Kwai
• The Dam Busters
• The Lady Killers
• Richard III
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The 1960s
•Saturday Night and Sunday Morning•Carry On Cleo•Dr. No•Lawrence of Arabia
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The 1970s
•A Clockwork Orange•Don’t Look Now•The Life of Brian•Kes
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The 1980s
•Chariots of Fire•My Beautiful Laundrette•Withnail & I•Educating Rita
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The 1990s
•Trainspotting•Four Weddings and a Funeral•The Full Monty•Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrells
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2000 and beyond…
•Bridget Jones•Slumdog Millionaire•This Is England•Shaun of the Dead
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Useful Websites
• http://www.screenonline.org.uk/
• http://www.bfi.org.uk/
• http://www.imdb.com/
• http://www.britmovie.co.uk
• http://www.britishcinemagreats.com/