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Read Beyond Hollywood: Reading Arthouse Cinema. This is in MM45 on page 24 - go to  our Media Magazine archive  to find the article.  1) Summarise the article in 50 words. Arthouse films artistic rather than commercial; they are films that are purposely difficult to understand or ‘read’.  Those who think of cinema as being simply entertainment, which is easier to read, are rarely likely to watch an arthouse film. Arthouse is characterised by ‘maximum ambiguity’, where a bizarre turn of events can only be ‘explained’ by characters’ subjectivity, rather than the world of the film. So the producers of art cinema are not in the business of making it easy for audiences to read the film.  The ‘return to the equilibrium’ described by Todorov is often absent in arthouse cinema. it gains its meanings through reference to other texts: Intertextual understanding in our so...

Read the Media Magazine feature on  A Field In England  in Issue 47 and create a blogpost called 'A Field In England case study'. You'll find the article in  our Media Magazine archive  - click on MM47 and go to page 19 . 1) Write a 100 word summary of the Media Magazine article. A Field in England’s audacious approach to distribution certainly generated media interest and debate about the future of the current Hollywood model, with its staggered release windows across various platforms, often taking months. However, A Field in England’s simultaneous release is not simply a gimmick. Although the model of mainstream releases described above is clearly working for the Big Event movies, times are possibly changing. 2) Read the following pages on the official website for  A Field In England  and write a one-sentence summary of each. Each page provides explanations of the uniq...

Sources:  Film News interview with director Joe Stephenson Hey Guys interview with Stephenson Flavourmag interview with Scott Chambers and Joe Stephenson trailer for Chicken Into Film feature on Chicken important film critic Mark Kermode's review of Chicken on the BBC Funding 1) What was the budget for Chicken?  £110,000  2) How did Joe Stephenson end up raising the money to make the film? He got the money from loans from his wealthy friends. 3) How does the Chicken budget compare to a Hollywood-funded British blockbuster such as Spectre or Paddington 2?  The budget for Spectre was $245-250 million and the budget for Paddington 2 was $50-55 million. Compared to the chicken budget of £100k, the other two movies had an enormously larger budget.  4) Joe Stephenson tried to secure funding from organisations that help low-budget filmmakers. What is the BFI Film Fund and how does it contribute to the British film industry? The BFI film fund uses money f...

Factsheet 132: British Film  1) Write a one-sentence definition of what makes a film British. A film is British if the cast is British, or if the film's subject matter is about British culture/values. 2) What is the difference between a Hollywood production context and production context of a British film? A Hollywood production context means that the films rely on star power, the use of celebrities and they often have high budgets. The production context of British film may also include these things. However, they tend to have lower budgets, and can be character driven. They are also reflective of British culture. 3) When did the James Bond franchise start? The James Bond franchise stared in the 1960s. 4) In terms of film censorship and graphic content, what began to change in British film in the 1970s and 1980s? In the 1970s, there was a rise in the amount of sexual content depicted in films. This involved showing more explicit scenes involving sex which li...