Tuesday, 15 February 2011

A2 Film: FM4 - single film close study

Sample general questions

1. What does your chosen film reveal about the usefulness of one or more critical approaches you have applied?

2. Consider debates that have arisen in the critical reception of your chosen film, either at the time of its initial release or now or both.

Specific Vertigo questions

1. Film scholars have argued that Vertigo is a film about cinema and about spectatorship. How
far do you think this is true?

2 In what ways can it be argued that Vertigo is a 'A film about film'?

3 How is Vertigo a “Hitchcock” film?

4 How does Hitchcock use micro techniques to create meaning in vertigo?
You can refer to camera, music, editing and mise-en-scene in your answer

5 Explore some of the ways in which Hitchcock attempts to manage the audience response to Scottie as the narrative of Vertigo unfolds

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