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Contexts of film (WJEC/Eduqas GCSE Film Studies)

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How have film and film technology developed, and how do institutional contexts shape film?

Institutional contexts and the development of film: how films are produced, distributed and exhibited, the difference between mainstream and independent film, and key developments in the history of film and film technology that learners study as a timeline.
How institutional contexts and film history work in WJEC/Eduqas GCSE Film Studies: production, distribution and exhibition, mainstream versus independent film, and the timeline of key developments in film and film technology.
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How do social, cultural, historical and political contexts shape a film and its meaning?

The contexts of film as a core study area: the social, cultural, historical and political contexts in which a film is produced and received, and how these contexts shape its content, its representations and the way audiences understand it.
How social, cultural, historical and political contexts shape a film in WJEC/Eduqas GCSE Film Studies: how the time, place and society a film comes from affect its content, its representations and how audiences read it.
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