Global film overview quiz - WJEC A-Level Film Studies quiz

Two Hollywood films from different decades

Two British films from since 1995

One European film and one produced outside Europe

One documentary and one silent film

The auteur and spectatorship

The core study areas only

Critical debates and filmmakers' theories

Narrative and ideology

Because the films have no dialogue

Because the films are always black and white

Because the films are always very short

Because the films are rooted in a national culture, history and tradition that shapes meaning

The film culture of a country, shaped by its history, language and traditions

A cinema building owned by a national government

Any film shown in more than one country

A film made entirely in English for export

It is always identical to Hollywood in every way

It can have different concerns, form and storytelling, tied to national contexts

It can never use continuity editing

It is always slow and difficult to follow

The marketing campaign

The certificate rating

The aesthetic experience the style produces

The running time

Analysing its film form closely

Integrating relevant cultural context

Reducing it to its setting or treating it as exotic spectacle

Reading it as a constructed text

Describe one fully, then the other

Organise around points of comparison, explaining differences through context

Only discuss the European film

Summarise both plots with no analysis

Write a separate block of national history with no link to the film

Ignore it and analyse form only

Assume the audience already knows it

Link a specific contextual factor to a specific choice and to meaning

No, you should analyse what each film actually does

Yes, all world cinema is art-house

Yes, world cinema never uses conventional form

No, because world cinema is always conventional

To compare two Hollywood blockbusters

To broaden experience of film and study how different cultures make meaning

To focus only on special effects

To study the business of film distribution

Only cinematography

Only sound and music

Cinematography, mise-en-scene, editing, sound and performance

Only narrative structure