The Third Man is the focus film for Year 12 students. A useful website is the screenonline one which has information about cast and crew alongside clips from the film. Remember that you are looking at the following areas in relation to the film:

• Context
• Intertextuality
• Ideology
• FIlm Language
• Audience/Critical response

To help you with the censorship topic it would be useful to look at both the BBFC website and also the SBBFC (Student BBFC) website. Both of these sites contain very useful information about censorship and how it works in the UK. The SBBFC website also has a number of useful case studies that examine specific films and issues surrounding them.

As a department we are continually trying to make available interesting resources and we have just bought some new DVD’s for the LRC. These will be on general loan and are to be found in the film section. The current selection includes work by the following directors, Francis Ford Coppola, Sidney Lumet, Richard Linklater and Guillermo del Toro. 

Have a look at James’ Scottish Cinema blog…

This will cover 4 films from FS3: Messages and Values…

• Trainspotting
• Local Hero
• Ratcatcher
• Orphans

FS3: SCOTTISH CINEMA
longroadscottishcinema.blogspot.com

As part of our highly enjoyable and successful trip to New York we managed to get some new resources for the course. These are ‘Making Movies’ by Sidney Lumet, a fantastic book written by a highly successful director about how he works and the way in which a film is made. We also bought ‘Scenes from the City’ a photographic guide to famous film sequences that take place in New York and finally a book called ‘Street Smart’ by Richard A Blake which focuses on famous filmmakers from New York such as Scorsese, Lee, Lumet and Allen.