FILM STUDIES

 BRITISH FILM SINCE 1995 - TWO FILM STUDY Overview: - New mood in British film in mid 1990's - Lack of funding for British film during Thatcher's time in office (1971-91) - 1990's new initiatives on financial front contribute to output from different directors - Work varied reflecting social and cultural contexts of Britain - Work of Gurindha Chadha - marks contribution of Asian-British film production - ethnic diversity from gender perspective)  1990's onwards - continuing to offer what British films and cinema does best in terms of social realism but also new directions across genres: sci-fi, comedy, horror, urban - Danny Boyle, 28 Days later, Shaun of The Dead, Attack the Block, Under the Skin.  Social Realism continues to respond to new social issues.  NEW WAVE CINEMA 1960'S - Rebelled against social hierarchies - making working class people (ordinary people) and their issues being visible and important.  - British film post 1960's reflects push to visualise...

 FILM STYLES AND MOVEMENTS  - Film movements often emerge from an earlier cinematic trend - to rebel. to disrupts, recreate or replace. - Precipitated by: artistic factors - wanting to do something new with cinema as medium. - Wider contextual factors - social, political, upheaval, wider political movements influencing art and cinema, material factors - funding often impacted by social or political transformations.  FRENCH NEW WAVE 1959-64 Key architect, Francois Truffaut. Rebels against older generation of filmmakers: their ideas and methods. "Cinema du papa" - grandad's cinema.  New directions; new techniques, new ideas / themes and talent. Outside locations, mobile lighter equipment, younger actors.  Auteurs of the French New Wave: Alan Resnais, Jean Luc-Godard, Jacues Rivette, Agnès Varda.  ITALIAN NEO-REALISM 1942-51 Emerges before the end of the Second World War Internal influences - new reality in Italy; poverty, bombings - post war desolation, physi...