Your Initial Response
Complete one of these documents in preparation
Context / Film Research.
You’ve got one week to conduct the research necessary to help you understand your chosen film:
- Character Representation
- Narrative
- Genre
- Visual Style
- Context
- Critical Reception (Reviews)
By the end of the week you will submit a proposed sequence from your film as well as an essay question which will help you focus on the sequence as well as link your ideas to the whole film. You should continue to use your copy of this document to record the research that you undertake this week.
Some Sources to Get you Started
City of God (2002) Meirelles & Lund
MM City of God Context and Cinematic Tradition
MM – Ghetto Culture in City of God & La Haine
City of God Review – The Guardian Newspaper
M (1931) Lang
- On M – (13.02 – 22.35)
- Listen to all of it for more on context, themes and Lang as auteur.
Analysis of M – “Playing all the weird angles of Fritz Lang’s M”
Films of the Weimar Republic & German Expressionism
Mudbound (2017) Rees
Dee Rees on voice and narration
A Review of Mudbound – Roger Ebert