A Level Film Studies

What is Social Realism? Cinematically the British New Wave is part of a tradition of social realism within British film which has see...

In  Andrea Arnold ’s film,  “Fish Tank,”  an unsmiling 15-year-old named Mia (Katie Jarvis), who lives in a housing project in Essex, in ...

Social Realism Better than any other genre, social realism has shown us to ourselves, pushing the boundaries in the effort to put the ...

The Lady From Shanghai  (1948) is an imaginative, complicated, unsettling  film noir  who-dun-it thriller, with fascinating visuals and...

So what exactly has changed? And is it worth all the fuss? After attending a recent screening, I can report that there are significan...

“The astonishing thing is not that some people steal or that others occasionally go out on strike, but rather that all those who are st...

Guillermo del Toro is a Mexican director, producer, screenwriter, novelist and designer. He is mostly known for his acclaimed films, Blade...

Theories of authorship part1 from jwright61 Theories of authorship part2 from jwright61

So with  Blade Runner  - and you probably get asked this a lot - but how has it been over the last 35 years to see so many things in tha...

I discovered these sci-fi video essays at  Film Studies For Free.  They are made for educational and critical purposes, using fair use/f...

Science fiction film  is a  film genre  that uses  science fiction :  speculative ,  science -based depictions of phenomena that are not...

Science Fiction Films are usually scientific, visionary, comic-strip-like, and imaginative, and usually visualized through fanciful, imag...

“Alien” was released in May of 1979 by 20th Century Fox with the tagline, “In space, no one can hear you scream.” The film was directed by R...