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EDUQAS Film Studies A-Level , Hollywood 1930 – 1990 Comparative Study (REVISION)
This 14 slide, fully-animated presentation involves key revision in preparation for Component 1, Section A: Hollywood 1930 – 1990 Comparative Study. Focus is on the auteur debate and industrial contexts, with other factors such as gender representation and genre also considered. The presentation involves interactive exercises and should fill one lesson.

EDUQAS A Level Film Studies - Gender in Some Like It Hot
This 25 Slide PowerPoint Presentation can be used for an hour long lesson on gender representations in Billy Wilder’s 1959 film ‘Some Like It Hot’. This can be used for the Component 1A. American Film Exam preparation in Film Studies, or it could be useful in AS Film Studies or Media Studies to discuss gender transgression, homoerotic subtext and feminist themes or messages in the film.
The film challenges gender binaries and stereotypes and cleverly uses subtext and indirect or double meanings to get across its progressive messages in subtle ways that would not have alienated 1950’s American audiences.
This is an interactive presentation that ends with a 15 minute exercise.

Understanding Tolerance Presentation
This is a full-color 27 slide interactive PowerPoint presentation. It forms the basis of an assembly or a full two hour lesson (depending upon time taken for class discussion/debate).
It is designed to prompt discussion and debate and to get youngsters thinking for themselves and reflecting on the complexities and problems associated with the concept of ‘tolerance’. It encourages them to actively define tolerance, and to reflect upon their definition, based on careful analysis of real life case studies and examples.
This lesson can be used can be used in an American or British context. It would work with a wide variety of age groups and can help in teaching citizenship, PSHE, RS, or British Values.
It could also work well as a starter exercise for the study of Liberalism (politics).

Film Studies A-Level Revision Quiz (Sunrise, 1927)
This is a great revision exercise for the EDUQAS Film Studies A-Level, Component 2, Global Filmmaking Perspectives: Silent Cinema.
This is a 20 slide Quiz presented in PowerPoint.
It works well for team or small group competitions.

Understanding Religious and Secular Laws
This is a 30 slide colour PowerPoint Presentation, with animated slides and interactive questions. The last several slides are designed for exam preparation for OCR General Certificate of Secondary Education.
It is also useful for discussing broader questions, such as the differences between morality and law, or secularism and theocracy.
Learning Outcomes:
Understand the difference between secular and religious laws.
For United Kingdom GCSE Religious Studies (9–1)
Unit J625/06: Religion, philosophy and ethics in the modern world from a Christian perspective
Unit J625/07: Religion, philosophy and ethics in the modern world from a Muslim perspective

Movie-Themed Treasure Hunt
This is an activity for team or pairs from Years 11+ and involves an active search for the answers, which are interdependent, so that one answer leads to another as students progress.
The game could be set up as a race to the finish line. Depending upon the research abilities and cinematic specialist knowledge of the team, the game could take anywhere from 15 minutes to 45 minutes to complete.
Included in this resource pack is: a treasure hunt ‘map’, two styles of answer sheets for students/teams, and an answer key for teachers.

Director Andrea Arnold - Her Auteur Signature
Studying FISH TANK (UK, 2009) for the Film or Media A-Level?
Or perhaps you are just looking for a film with empowered female leads?
Maybe you want to think about the concept of an ‘auteur’ director?
This resource also gives some tips for studying ideology in films.
Suited to 14+ age groups, this resource can be used for the EDUQAS Film Studies A-Level or AS Level, or just as an introduction to the concept of ‘Auteur’ directors or ideology.

Christianity, Crime and Punishment
This 23 slide full colour animated PowerPoint Presentation introduces students to the **Christian outlook on crime & punishment (including the concepts of retribution, deterrence and rehabilitation).
It offers an open and questioning approach that allows students to weigh different outlooks and consider the concept of ‘crime’ and the reasons for punishment.
It prompts discussion and can be used to stimulate reflection.

The Cinema of Wong Kar-wei: an introduction
Suitable for teaching the EDUQAS FILM STUDIES A-LEVEL, this resource comprises a 23-slide presentation giving an overview of the distinctive features of Wong Kar-wei’s films. Useful for the EDUQAS A-LEVEL film studies Component 2: Global Filmmaking perspectives, Section D, Modern Experimental Film, this resources is fully animated and contains links to illustrative You Tube videos.
This presentation provides an introduction to the cinema of Won Kar-wei and works well as background / contextualisation of CHUNGKING EXPRESS or FALLEN ANGELS.
time: 1 hour

'Captain Fantastic' Scene Analysis
For Eduqas A Level Film Studies, this 43-slide full colour interactive presentation prepares students to analyse how cinematography and mise-en-scene are used to convey key narrative meanings. Students are encouraged to question, discuss and share their own thoughts and there is a strong emphasis on uses of cinematic terminology as well as analysis and exam preparation (with a practice exam question).

EDUQAS A-Level Film Studies - introduction to SPECTATORSHIP Issues
This resource closely follows the EDUQAS A-Level specification and the Lisa Wardle textbook to offer teachers a comprehensive introduction to the main issues around spectatorship. This is especially useful in teaching Component 1, Section B, American Film Since 2005.
Topics covered include active versus passive spectatorship, viewer positioning, analysis of how film form and narrative shape spectator response, viewing contexts, demographic factors, intertextuality, preferred, negotiated and oppositional readings ( Stuart Hall’s theory) with a few case study application suggestions (CAROL, Haynes, 2015).
The resource includes interactive exercises and is presented with nice visuals and text/picture animations.
Approx length of time - 1 entire lesson (1 hour).
Number of slides: 38.

A-Level Film Studies: Sunrise (Murnau, 1927) Close Study
This GERMAN EXPRESSIONIST film from the late silent period showcases many features of German Expessionist cinema, as well as being a key example of a film made in Hollywood for an American audience. Made in 1927 by Fox Studio, this film forms the basis of a lesson around German Expressionist cinema and its visual techniques. This 32-Slide presentation provides lots of detail as well as explanation about how certain visual effects were achieved.
Ideal for teachers fdollowing the EDUQAS Film Studies A-Level, Component 2.

EDUQAS Component 2.Global Filmmaking Perspectives, Section B. Documentary Film
This presentation is based on insights from Patricia White’s article ‘Cinema Solidarity: The Documentary Practice of Kim Longinotto’ from Cinema Journal 46, No. 1, Fall 2006.
Using Sisters in Law (Ayisi and Longinotto) as the central case study, this 30-slide presentation forms the basis of an hour-long lesson and concludes with a past exam question.
Ideal for teaching EDUQAS A-LEVEL** FILM STUDIES**, this resource focuses on Kim Longinotto’s documentary practice and ‘theory’, allowing students to contextualise her approach in terms of wider feminist debates around the position and role of Western feminists vis-a-vis feminists from other cultures and national contexts.

Fallen Angels (Wong Kar-Wei) - a narrative study
This fully animated, interactive 20 Slide illustrated Power-Point presentation forms the basis of a lesson, ideal for a post-screening discussion of narrative in Wong Kar-Wei’s 1995 Hong Kong New Wave film FALLEN ANGELS. The presentation provides several opportunities to pause and discuss aspects of narrative in the
film and encourages students to think about the ways in which Wong’s cinema breaks away from conventional genre storytelling methods.
The presentation is ideal for the Global CInema / Experimental Cinema component of EDUQAS Film Studies A-Level or for any film studies course interested in Hong Kong New Wave, Auteur studies, or Global Cinema.

Global Cinema Comparative Study: MUSTANG & TIMBUKTU
This 23 full colour slide presentation offers A-Level Film Studies Students many interactive exercises that will help them to compare and contrast these two films from global cinema. Mustang (Erguven, 2015, Turkey/France) tells the story of five sisters living in rural Turkey, where village and local Islamic traditions are still strictly enforced. Timbuktu (Sissako, 2014, Mauritania/France) dramatises the occupation of Northern Mali by Jihadist Islamists in 2012, and revolves around the real life story of a couple who were stoned to death for having a child out of wedlock.
The two films are studied as excellent examples of post-millennial global cinema and offer many points of comparison.
Both films offer means of studying religious debates, culture and global politics.
This presentation should fill an entire one hour lesson and may be extended into longer or more developed exercises.

Spectatorship Study of Joker (Phillips, 2019)
This 47 slide PowerPoint Presentation looks closely at the narratives that surrounded the film Joker upon its release, from both fans, critics and the corporate media. The presentation explores the division in reception between divergent groups of viewers or commentators. The main criticisms and defense of the film are presented and explored, with opportunities for interactive discussion and debate. Students are challenged to consider the film’s main themes and how the release of a controversial movie like this one prompts a variety of responses and re-frames the film’s central meanings as new ‘narratives’ spring up around the film, making the encompassing rhetoric another topic for discussion and analysis.

1970's - a decade of change
This 51-slide PowerPoint Presentation provides an overview of key events in the United States during the decade of the 1970s, including some 1960’s history to provide background context. The presentation covers political, social and cultural aspects of the era, including the civil rights and womens movements, anti-war protests, political scandals, anti-war agitation, and popular culture. This presentation gives students a feel for the historical climate that can provide excellent background context for novels, films and works of art from the period, as well as general history.
The presentation could provide a full lesson and may be used in tandem with study texts such as One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Post, Apocalypse Now, I Am Not Your Negro, Hamburger Hill, and many others…

Religious Studies: Marriage & the Family
This 30 slide full-colour interactive powerpoint presentation informs students about religious beliefs about marriage and the family. Topics covered include the Muslim and Christian marriage ceremony as well as Civil Partnerships, definitions of marriage, arranged marriages, reasons for marriage, roles in marriage, vows, the nature of families, cohabitation and same-sex marriage.
The resource helps students to prepare for the GCSE Exams in Religious Studies as well as helping students of religious faith to understand the rite of marraige and how religions and non-religious people view it.
The resource offers lots of discussion prompts to encourage class discussion.
This resource could be used as a two-hour lesson.

British Film Since 1995 (Eduqas A Level Film Studies Revision)
This 30 full colour , interactive PowerPoint Presentation is the ideal revision tool to prepare students for the A-Level Film Studies exam paper (Component 1C.).
THe two films refrenced are Trarispotting (Boyle, 1996) and Fish Tank (Arnold, 2009).
The resource closely follows the Eduqas Examination Board’s advice and guidance on how to approach ideologies. There are example questions from past papers, discussion prompts and class exercises as well as an essay structure scaffold.
This could be used on conjunction with the two films to teach ideologies and narrative, and provides example binary analyses - a tool for ideological analysis that is transferable to any narrative.

EDUQAS FILM STUDIES A-Level - Silent Cinema Sunrise (F.W. Murnau)
This 39-slide fully interactive presentation ends with exam questions and guidance from the EDUQAS boards, as well as offering historical context and aesthetic characteristics of German Expressionist cinema, with special focus on SUNRISE (FW Murnau).
This presentation is excellent for exam revision and conveys the key talking points for this section of the **Film Studies **Component 2 paper.