Rebel Without a Cause - Social context lessons

This pack contains TWO lessons.

Lesson 1 - Social Context:

• Intro to film and module
• Review of past paper questions - these are used to structure the entire session and all students will be able to answer the questions by the end of the session
• Film’s genre and director/stars
• Social Context - post war USA
• Boomer generation and conflict with teens/youth
• Rebellion in the 1950s
• Series of key scene analysis tasks covering: social context, mise-en-scene

Lesson 2 - Production Context

• What is ‘Production Context’
• Review of past paper questions - these are used to structure the entire session and all students will be able to answer the questions by the end of the session
• Classic era Studio system/factory filmmaking
  • Sound in cinema - analysis and history
  • Stars
  • Studio model
  • Patriarchal nature of the classic era
  • Male Gaze
  • Genre
  • In-depth analysis of Cinematography - 10 mark past paper question - analysis tasks and in-class assessment for this question