Umm, for O and A level at school in the 80s we examined:
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
A Zed and Two Noughts
The Belly of an Architect
(I think the English teacher must have had a hard on for Peter Greenaway)
Shane (1953)
Of Mice and Men (1939)
However in those days this was for English, Media Studies hadn't been invented then.
And, where applicable, we read the books and wrote about them too. Often comparing and contrasting the two forms.
Our Film tutor seemed to have an unhealthy obsession with Showgirls, and seemed to think there was a far deeper meaning behind it
The sex in the pool scene is a damning condemnation of the Russian Revolution of 1905 with the two bodies representing the State Duma (the legislative assembly) and the landowners.
My Left Foot. Studied it as part of the Comparative Studies for Leaving Cert (Irish equivalent to A-Levels). The comparative studies involves comparing three books or films and comparing things like culture the stories are set in, genre, theme etc. Also watched the film versions of Othello and Merchant of Venice because we were studying those plays.
North by Northwest
The Truman Show
Citizen Kane
Se7en
Red Dragon
Coming Home
Thelma and Louise
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Pulp Fiction
Stand By Me
Alfie (1966)
Performance
Romeo + Juliet
Schindler's List
From Russia With Love
I wish they did film studies as a subject when I was at school.
So do I. Had to wait till Uni for a mere sniff of it.
BA (Graphic Art / Contextural Studies) - Visual/Thematic representation, inc. Kes, Thelma and Louise, Full Metal Jacket.
MA (Film Studies) - Further into history/theory/genre analysis, then carried on with narrative construction and sensory response in 70s cinema, inc. Night Moves, The Fury, Death in Venice.
What are these films studied for ? Cultural impact, technical prowess, writing ?
Mine was a mix of all of that plus quite a bit about English. I wrote a hell of a lot of papers about each film we watched from August to December, plus a final exam at the end of the class. It was not a class you could just dick around in and watch a few films. It's been 15 years since I took that class and I know I've left films off.
Yikes, from what I can remember, most are from when I did Film Studies and so on(when I was at school there was no Media/Film studies at GCSE level to do). A mixture of films we watched whole and films where we only studied certain scenes:
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
2001: A Space Odyssey
Rear Window
Breathless
La Haine
Eraserhead
North by Northwest
Memento Romeo and Juliet(Baz Luhrmann) Romeo and Juliet(Franco Zeffirelli) American History X
Persona
The Seventh Seal
Weekend(Jean Luc Goddard) Battleship Potemkin
Nosferatu(original film)
The Shining Un Chien Andalou
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
A Clockwork Orange
Metropolis
The Matrix
That's all I can remember right now, no doubt there are more.
GCSE
Romeo & Juliet (Baz Luhrman and the older version)
Frankenstein (the one with Kenneth Branagh)
Psycho
Of Mice and Men
A Level Media and Film Sudies
Trainspotting
Passion of the Christ
Natural Born Killers
My Name is Joe
Eraserhead
Nosferatu
Un Chien Andalou
A Clockwork Orange
Alfie (original)
A Hard Days's Night
The Wicker Man
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Blow Up
The Idiots
L.I.E
Happiness
Hard Candy
Requiem for a Dream
The Phantom of Liberty
Bram Stoker's Dracula
The Godfather
Switchblade Romance
Hero
Trouble Everyday
Crash (Cronenberg film)
Alice
Spirited Away
A Spike Lee film (can't remember the name)
There were probably loads more I can't remember them all off the top of my head.
Are Film Studies courses like English Lit, but with films instead of books? Or is there more to it, like studying directorial style, camera work, acting, use of sound and music, special effects, etc? Does it deal with technicalities of the film-making or is it all about the art?
I was forced to take an elective at university in my 1st year and ended up taking Intro to Film and TV as it was the only thing I had relevant qualifications for. We studied some of Carrie, Halloween, Three Colours Red(?) and Falling Down, from what I can recall.
I still wish I'd been allowed to take The Novel instead
Are Film Studies courses like English Lit, but with films instead of books? Or is there more to it, like studying directorial style, camera work, acting, use of sound and music, special effects, etc? Does it deal with technicalities of the film-making or is it all about the art?
I know the A level Media course my school offers covers a bit of both.
During my media studies A-Level I had to compare a movie remake and the original. I chose to compare Psycho and it's remake, ended up writing far too much and got marked down for it.
Also compared Se7en to the Dr. Faustus play for English Literature.
Academically for my own interest - Brokeback Mountain: character studies and symbolism and.....well...the men.
Similarly LOTR trilogy - the story and also hot men in leather riding horses:)
North by Northwest
The Truman Show
Citizen Kane
Se7en
Red Dragon
Coming Home
Thelma and Louise
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Pulp Fiction
Stand By Me
Alfie (1966)
Performance
Romeo + Juliet
Schindler's List
From Russia With Love
History - Forrest Gump and Elizabeth (and Blackadder goes forth - TV I know)
English - Romeo+Juliet, Roman Polanski's Macbeth, Of Mice and Men (1992)
Media - Inception, Silence of the Lambs, Stand By Me - (I should point out we had to study music websites, magazine covers for exam and film posters and music videos for coursework, so unfortunately, motion pictures were a rare event and SotLambs was only first 2 minutes).
Although I researched A Single Man for my project - great film
I don't think there was any such thing as Film Studies or Media when I did 'O' levels. But although I am jealous of you youngsters having the chance to do this, I'm at a loss to see how this helps you get a job. We get CVs in regularly for vacancies here and anyone who's got these sort of qualifications listed gets put in the bin I'm afraid. They're seen (however unfairly) as just an excuse to watch films instead of studying.
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The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
A Zed and Two Noughts
The Belly of an Architect
(I think the English teacher must have had a hard on for Peter Greenaway)
Shane (1953)
Of Mice and Men (1939)
However in those days this was for English, Media Studies hadn't been invented then.
And, where applicable, we read the books and wrote about them too. Often comparing and contrasting the two forms.
Elizabeth Berkley is the Duma, obviously.
It was a pretty good selection, I still really like the first two and before Shirley valentine I never thought of having chips with egg
The Truman Show
Citizen Kane
Se7en
Red Dragon
Coming Home
Thelma and Louise
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Pulp Fiction
Stand By Me
Alfie (1966)
Performance
Romeo + Juliet
Schindler's List
From Russia With Love
BA (Graphic Art / Contextural Studies) - Visual/Thematic representation, inc. Kes, Thelma and Louise, Full Metal Jacket.
MA (Film Studies) - Further into history/theory/genre analysis, then carried on with narrative construction and sensory response in 70s cinema, inc. Night Moves, The Fury, Death in Venice.
Good film and book as well.
Mine was a mix of all of that plus quite a bit about English. I wrote a hell of a lot of papers about each film we watched from August to December, plus a final exam at the end of the class. It was not a class you could just dick around in and watch a few films. It's been 15 years since I took that class and I know I've left films off.
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
2001: A Space Odyssey
Rear Window
Breathless
La Haine
Eraserhead
North by Northwest
Memento
Romeo and Juliet(Baz Luhrmann)
Romeo and Juliet(Franco Zeffirelli)
American History X
Persona
The Seventh Seal
Weekend(Jean Luc Goddard)
Battleship Potemkin
Nosferatu(original film)
The Shining
Un Chien Andalou
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
A Clockwork Orange
Metropolis
The Matrix
That's all I can remember right now, no doubt there are more.
GCSE
Romeo & Juliet (Baz Luhrman and the older version)
Frankenstein (the one with Kenneth Branagh)
Psycho
Of Mice and Men
A Level Media and Film Sudies
Trainspotting
Passion of the Christ
Natural Born Killers
My Name is Joe
Eraserhead
Nosferatu
Un Chien Andalou
A Clockwork Orange
Alfie (original)
A Hard Days's Night
The Wicker Man
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Blow Up
The Idiots
L.I.E
Happiness
Hard Candy
Requiem for a Dream
The Phantom of Liberty
Bram Stoker's Dracula
The Godfather
Switchblade Romance
Hero
Trouble Everyday
Crash (Cronenberg film)
Alice
Spirited Away
A Spike Lee film (can't remember the name)
There were probably loads more I can't remember them all off the top of my head.
I studied quite a number of Hollywood movies. They were (just some of them. can't recall all):
Gone with the Wind
The Searchers
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Bonnie and Clyde
Apocalypse Now
Annie Hall
Shrek
I still wish I'd been allowed to take The Novel instead
I know the A level Media course my school offers covers a bit of both.
Also compared Se7en to the Dr. Faustus play for English Literature.
Similarly LOTR trilogy - the story and also hot men in leather riding horses:)
great list
English - Romeo+Juliet, Roman Polanski's Macbeth, Of Mice and Men (1992)
Media - Inception, Silence of the Lambs, Stand By Me - (I should point out we had to study music websites, magazine covers for exam and film posters and music videos for coursework, so unfortunately, motion pictures were a rare event and SotLambs was only first 2 minutes).
Although I researched A Single Man for my project - great film
The Dark Knight
The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas
I SO wish I had chosen to do film studies. Bleh
The genre was psychological thrillers:
Gaslight
Psycho
Peeping Tom
Coma
Fatal Atrraction
The Hand that rocks the cradle
At University
I did alective course where we did Cuban cinema
Buena Vista Social Club
Soy Cuba
Portrait of Teresa
Death of a Bureaucrat
Strawberry and Chocolate
Memento
Romeo & Juliet
Of Mice and Men