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Global Filmmaking Perspectives
Quick questions on World cinema: European and non-European film - WJEC A-Level Film Studies
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What is national cinemas beyond Hollywood?Show answer
World cinema is not one thing; it is many national cinemas, each with its own context. What unites the global film study is that these films stand outside the dominant English-language Hollywood industry and are rooted in their own cultures. This is why cultural context is so central: each film carries the history, values and sometimes the film-making traditions of its national cinema.
What is difference without explanation?Show answer
Tie formal differences to the films' distinct cultural and national contexts.
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What is a national cinema? [2 marks]
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Name two ways a global film might differ from a mainstream Hollywood film. [3 marks]
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Compare how the two global films you have studied use film form to create meaning. [20 marks]
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