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Sunday 21 June 2009
This weekend
I have anaylsed the represenations of teenagers in History boys quite a bit to say actually. I got notes, and i am just waiting for kidulthood to arrive then do that and then do the essay
Friday 19 June 2009
Film arrived
History boys has arrived off amazon but i am going to wait for Kidulthood to arrive then i will look at them.
Thursday 18 June 2009
Break
I am going to give this a break for a couple of days and start Film coursework and totally blitz my science in society coursework
Differences
I gather there is a stark contrast of 80's teenage life and the modern day version to do with issues of drugs and other stuff.
History Boys review
A class of gifted teenage boys charm and wisecrack their way through the summer of 1983 as two very different teachers steer them towards their Oxbridge exams. The big screen version of Alan Bennett's stage play
http://www.channel4.com/film/reviews/film.jsp?id=156095
Part school days nostalgia trip, part gay-themed drama Alan Bennett's The History Boys won endless awards when it hit The National Theatre. Cut'n'pasted to the big screen - same director, same cast - it's kept all its probing, comic smarts. Richard Griffiths plays inspired and inspiring English teacher Hector, who clashes with young supply teacher Irwin (Stephen Campbell Moore) while coaching Sixth Formers for Oxbridge entrance exams. As stuffy tradition meets modern technique, lessons will be learned.
The clash of the masters is academic; at least until Hector's caught groping one of the boys (hands on teaching perhaps?) and Bennett's classroom drama is suddenly laced with dark longing and sexual desire. It lets this teacher-pupil drama cut deeper than the insipid platitudes of Dead Poet's Society. Think Grange Hill rewritten by WH Auden: slightly fusty but wickedly witty.
"THE YOUNG CLASS GET TOP MARKS"
Little is gained by uprooting this play from the stage, but nothing's lost either. The young cast get top marks for battling Bennett's improbably middle aged dialogue while Richard Griffiths - once Uncle Monty in Withnail & I - gives Hector gravitas (and a 60 inch waistline). Elsewhere, Frances de la Tour plays a deadpan history teacher ("How depressing it is to teach five centuries of masculine ineptitude") and Clive Merrison pitches his conniving headmaster somewhere between Gollum and Mr Burns from The Simpsons. It's a mark of how high this movie sets the bar that these actors can't steal the show. Like the Oxbridge entrance exams the pupils sit, such excellence is expected, not exceptional.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2006/10/04/the_history_boys_2006_review.shtml
http://www.channel4.com/film/reviews/film.jsp?id=156095
Part school days nostalgia trip, part gay-themed drama Alan Bennett's The History Boys won endless awards when it hit The National Theatre. Cut'n'pasted to the big screen - same director, same cast - it's kept all its probing, comic smarts. Richard Griffiths plays inspired and inspiring English teacher Hector, who clashes with young supply teacher Irwin (Stephen Campbell Moore) while coaching Sixth Formers for Oxbridge entrance exams. As stuffy tradition meets modern technique, lessons will be learned.
The clash of the masters is academic; at least until Hector's caught groping one of the boys (hands on teaching perhaps?) and Bennett's classroom drama is suddenly laced with dark longing and sexual desire. It lets this teacher-pupil drama cut deeper than the insipid platitudes of Dead Poet's Society. Think Grange Hill rewritten by WH Auden: slightly fusty but wickedly witty.
"THE YOUNG CLASS GET TOP MARKS"
Little is gained by uprooting this play from the stage, but nothing's lost either. The young cast get top marks for battling Bennett's improbably middle aged dialogue while Richard Griffiths - once Uncle Monty in Withnail & I - gives Hector gravitas (and a 60 inch waistline). Elsewhere, Frances de la Tour plays a deadpan history teacher ("How depressing it is to teach five centuries of masculine ineptitude") and Clive Merrison pitches his conniving headmaster somewhere between Gollum and Mr Burns from The Simpsons. It's a mark of how high this movie sets the bar that these actors can't steal the show. Like the Oxbridge entrance exams the pupils sit, such excellence is expected, not exceptional.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2006/10/04/the_history_boys_2006_review.shtml
Interesting review
kidadulthood review. How are teenagers represented in the film ‘Kidulthood’?
Words: | Submitted: Thu Mar 01 2007
... whether they are getting bullied themselves, watching or taking part in it. Either way, bullying is always a big part of school life. In the film, the presence of bullying shows the audience how hard it is to watch or to be around it. It shows parents should be more aware of teenagers and keep more in touch with them. The sound track to the film is an urban tune with only British artists rapping in the film such as Dizzy Rascal, and The Streets. As a British film, with London-born actors, the director and the cast thought it was important to make the music British too, as it's a big part of teenage life. Music is the voice of the youth and adds to the theme of the film (teenagers). The music helps to bring home the message of the 'youth'. Music plays almost throughout the film, intensifying and giving ...
www.academicdb.com/Mass_Communications_and_Documentation/.../kidadulthood_review___How_are_teenagers_
Words: | Submitted: Thu Mar 01 2007
... whether they are getting bullied themselves, watching or taking part in it. Either way, bullying is always a big part of school life. In the film, the presence of bullying shows the audience how hard it is to watch or to be around it. It shows parents should be more aware of teenagers and keep more in touch with them. The sound track to the film is an urban tune with only British artists rapping in the film such as Dizzy Rascal, and The Streets. As a British film, with London-born actors, the director and the cast thought it was important to make the music British too, as it's a big part of teenage life. Music is the voice of the youth and adds to the theme of the film (teenagers). The music helps to bring home the message of the 'youth'. Music plays almost throughout the film, intensifying and giving ...
www.academicdb.com/Mass_Communications_and_Documentation/.../kidadulthood_review___How_are_teenagers_
Director's background x2
Menhaj Huda (born 1967) is a bangladeshi film maker- His first directing job was the 1993 television series Hypnosis. He directed Jump Boy in 1999, which won an award for 'Best Feature Film' at the Mediawave awards.
Other directing credits include Queer as Folk 2, Is Harry on the Boat?, Murphy's Law, Murder in Mind, The Bill, Blue Murder and HolbyBlue
http://www.britfilms.com/britishfilms/directors/?id=C3BC981002c2a25B4CrRt2DF93DE
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menhaj_Huda
Nicholas Hytner was born in Manchester to a Jewish family, the son of barrister, Benet, QC, and Joyce Hytner.[1] He attended Manchester Grammar School and read English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. In the early 1980s he worked at Exeter University's Northcotte Theatre, and in the theatre department. He later became an Associate Director at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre, where he worked between 1985 and 1989. Hytner first found himself working regularly at the National Theatre in London between 1989 and 1997. He mainly directs theatre productions but he soemtimes does films.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Hytner
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0405336/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2003/mar/30/theatre.artsfeatures
Other directing credits include Queer as Folk 2, Is Harry on the Boat?, Murphy's Law, Murder in Mind, The Bill, Blue Murder and HolbyBlue
http://www.britfilms.com/britishfilms/directors/?id=C3BC981002c2a25B4CrRt2DF93DE
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menhaj_Huda
Nicholas Hytner was born in Manchester to a Jewish family, the son of barrister, Benet, QC, and Joyce Hytner.[1] He attended Manchester Grammar School and read English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. In the early 1980s he worked at Exeter University's Northcotte Theatre, and in the theatre department. He later became an Associate Director at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre, where he worked between 1985 and 1989. Hytner first found himself working regularly at the National Theatre in London between 1989 and 1997. He mainly directs theatre productions but he soemtimes does films.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Hytner
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0405336/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2003/mar/30/theatre.artsfeatures
Wednesday 17 June 2009
Title of Coursework
An exploration of the representation of teenagers in two British Film, films are History Boys and Kidulthood. then some campaigh material for low budget uk teenage rights of passage film.
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First BLOG EVER
Bought DVD's History Boys and Kidulthood off amazon to analyse the teenage representation of. Get started, want to sort it out and finish
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