Mest1 Section B: The British Film Industry

1) Use our brilliant Media Fact sheet archive on the M: drive Media Shared (M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets)to find Media Factsheet #132 on British Film. 

2) Read the whole of Factsheet #132 British Film

3) Write a one-sentence definition of what makes a film British.

4) What is the difference between a Hollywood production context and production context of a British film?

5) When did the James Bond franchise start?

The James Bond franchise began in the 1960s at a time when cultural norms were beginning to shift increasingly.

6) In terms of film censorship and graphic content, what began to change in British film in the 1970s and 1980s?

7) What groups are often represented in British film? Give examples of films these groups feature in.

8) What does the Factsheet suggest might be the audience appeal of British film?

A film qualifies as being British once there is a feeling of 'English contribution' in it, whether that be from it being financed from Britain, it being taped in Britain or there being British performing artists in it to give some examples conceivable things it might contain that go ahead to make it British. 

The distinction between a British creation connection and a Hollywood generation setting is that British preparations frequently depend on a much lower spending plan, character-driven plot furthermore the verbal exchange for the film to achieve individuals. Hollywood is the precise inverse of this, with the movies frequently being very high-spending plan and a dependence on big name vicinity to spread the film to others. 

The James Bond establishment started in the 1960s during a period when social standards were starting to move progressively. 

From a control and realistic substance angle, in the 1970s what was changing was the depiction of sexual substance in which components of it such as sexual brutality was shown at an expanding rate. As far as the 80s, what turned out to be more pervasive were what are alluded to as 'video nasties' with preparations turning out to be progressively brutal and unnecessarily explicit. This influenced control as in the BBFC came to fruition in '85 which guaranteed all movies discharged in the UK be evaluated comparing to a particular age. 

Bunches that regularly highlight in British movies are the adolescent and ladies. Youth for instance, regularly highlight in movies to do with things such as resistance to foundation and savagery, for example, 'A Clockwork Orange' furthermore 'Assault The Block.' For the situation of ladies, there's incessant stereotyping, for example, with the presentation of them being at either one-end of the range - prostitute or virgin. Samples of these are in 'Caretaker McPhee' furthermore 'Admissions of a Window Cleaner.' 


The factsheet proposes that the group of onlookers request of British film originates from that point being real identifiable British components in the film whether that originate from performing artists or areas, additionally and maybe all the more fundamentally, when it concentrates on order with things such as social strife and training.