OCR A-Level Film Studies Hollywood and American film overview quiz quiz

Two Classical Hollywood films from 1930 to 1960, compared with no New Hollywood title at all

One Classical Hollywood film (1930 to 1960) and one New Hollywood film (1961 to 1990)

One contemporary American film from 1995 onward, studied entirely on its own with no pair

Two silent-era films made before synchronised sound, set against a recent blockbuster release

The American film since 2005 essay

The British film since 1995 essay

The Hollywood comparative study

The documentary film section

The modern age-based ratings certificate system used today

The British Board of Film Classification operating in the US

No censorship existed in this era of American cinema

The Production Code (Hays Code)

The rise of television and an antitrust ruling

The sudden arrival of synchronised sound recording

The Production Code being strengthened and tightened further

A shortage of available directors and screenwriters in Hollywood

Auteur theory

Spectatorship

Film ideology

Genre study

The moral and emotional bond we feel toward a character, which is in fact allegiance not alignment

The film's total running time and the pacing of its sequences across the runtime

Attaching us to a character's experience, often through restricted narration and point of view

The order in which the opening and closing credits are arranged on screen

Spectatorship or genre

Narrative or realism

Documentary or experimental

Auteur or ideology

Filmmaking is collaborative and industrial, so authorship is shared

Directors are not important to a film and have no creative influence at all

Recognised auteurs simply make far too many films across their careers

The approach only applies to documentaries and never to fiction features

How much money it cost to produce and market to audiences

Whether it reinforces or challenges dominant ideology

Who directed it and which studio financed the production

How long the individual takes and tracking shots run for

Describing each film in turn separately without any cross-reference

Listing the full cast and the principal crew for both productions

Comparing the two films directly and reaching a judgement

Retelling both plots in full sequence from opening to closing scene