Main study areas and topic within each area to study for the exam. You may not be able to cover them all – but here a range of topics within each area.
Films as products
The global and local dimensions of film
Hollywood
Film Studios
Films as commercial products
Adaptability of the film industry
Filmmaking: the process
Film production, distribution and exhibition
Audiences as fans and consumers
The early cinema experience ( nice to know but unlikely to come up)
Changing patterns of consumption including multi-screen cinemas and home cinema ( a favourite topic in the exam)
The role of the audience in the filmmaking process
Censorship and classification
Fan power
Industry power
Globalization
Hollywood back in the day and Hollywood today – Old Hollywood and New Hollywood
Old Hollywood and New Hollywood. How does Hollywood today compare with the Hollywood of the 1940s-50s?
Actors, directors and agents
Producers
Production: an overview
Distribution in Old Hollywood and New Hollywood
Is the British film industry in any way distinctive and different?
How does it cope with having to survive in the shadow of Hollywood?
A distinctive and different cinema
