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P5006 British Cinema (Elective): final assessment
 
Essay: 3,000 words (100%)
 
Discuss one of the following topics in relation to two films of your choice:
 

(a)   ‘British’ national identity (b)   discourses of ‘realism’ (c)    the concept of ‘quality’ (d)   the ‘heritage’ debates (e)   the documentary tradition (f)     World War II (g)   the British Empire (h)   postcolonial Britain (i)     popular cinema (j)     art cinema (k)    place, region and identity

(l)       setting and landscape (m)   class (n)     gender and/or sexuality (o)     race and ethnicity (p)     desire and repression (q)     diversity and difference (r)      power and resistance (s)      critical reception and commercial success (t)       canons and tastes (u)     transnationalism

 
Guidance notes:
 

• At least one of the films discussed in your essay must be a set film from the module. You may choose two from the weekly screenings or you may prefer to select your second film from the lists of recommended viewing (see module handbook). Please ask your seminar tutor to approve your choice of films.
• These are general topics. Successful essays will develop a specific argument and defined area of focus based on the two films and the critical materials you use. You should give your essay a title that reflects the films you have chosen and the issues you are exploring.
• Essays should draw on a range of reading from the module and beyond. Good essays will demonstrate a process of research that goes beyond the core texts for the module. Remember to consult the ‘further reading’ lists in the module handbook.
• When analysing films in detail, you should pay attention to questions of cinematic form where appropriate.
• Try to pay equal attention to each of the two films you analyse.
• Please format essays in 1.5 space, 12pt font. Film titles should be formatted in italics. You should choose a referencing system (e.g. Harvard, Chicago) and use it consistently. Please attach a bibliography and filmography to the end of the essay.

 
 
 
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Additional question

1. With reference to Submarine and one other British film, discuss the advantages and limitations of the concept of ‘post-national’ cinema.
2. Analyse the concept of “quality cinema” with reference to Brief Encounter and one other British film of the 1940s.
3. Discuss the Second World War and British national identity with reference to Fires Were Started and one other British film.
4. Discuss the intersection of local community and national identity in Fires Were Started and one other British wartime documentary film.
5. How did the British documentary movement respond to World War II? Answer with reference to two relevant films.
6. To what extent is Black Narcissus a typical example of “Empire cinema” and its “colonial spectacle”? You should refer to one other relevant film.
7. Analyse visual style and the construction of cinematic space in Black Narcissus and one other British film.
8. Analyse place and landscape in A Taste of Honey and one other film of the British New Wave.
9. Discuss the tension between class and gender in A Taste of Honey and one other relevant British film.
10. Analyse the tension between genre conventions and artistic experimentation in Performance and one other British film.
11. With reference to Performance and one other relevant British film, discuss the cinematic representation of “Swinging London”.
12. To what extent do heritage films depict the past through a “touristic” gaze? Answer with reference to A Room with a View and one other British film.
13. Discuss landscape and nostalgia in A Room with a View and Robinson in Space.
14. Discuss the essay film as a mode for investigating national identity in Handsworth Songs and Robinson in Space.
15. Analyse experimental sound/image relationships in Handsworth Songs and one other British film of your choice.
16. Paying attention to questions of form and audience, analyse the representation of BAME experience in Bend it Like Beckham and one other British film.

 
 
 
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