You may well ask the very question at the top of the page - and there is an answer - here are some helpful slideshows to get you started - then you need to work the case study into the surrounding structure.
Basically - write about this and then write about that [ROUGH TRADE] and then conclude - marks are then in the bag
here are a number of articles, essays, powerpoints and general notes to aide the learning process and make you somehow feel safe and secure that you can do examinations and all that stuff. In order to fully address what's been going on in class i will 'break it down' [an old hip-hop reference - you can see that i am street] for all those at the back
Year 13 Film Studies FS5 World Cinema - as you know we studied the new wave - particularly the French New Wave and as it is celebrating 50 years of being 'hip, cool and generally subversive' their have been a number of features written looking at its impact. Which is good - because that's what your question will be like. So here goes - something to get your teeth into and make notes from,
a really heavy article all about Godard and history - it has some excellent quotes about the ways in which his work developed and relates to the social conditions of the time. http://www.h-france.net/rude/Nettelbeck2.pdf
Here is another one that deals with the 'slasher film' don't be put off by the graphics on this one - it contains a great deal of theory matched to good examples.
I just thought i'd put this here as well - because it is scary - actually i think it may well have scarred me for life. My mother made me watch this - because my dad was on nightshift and she'd already watched the first part and wanted to see how it would conclude. Suffice to say my brother and I screamed a great deal that evening.
I will blog more later on - for year 12s and stuff - keep on coming back - i hear the film owl's in town.