Living With Crime

Within this unit of the AS Film Studies course you will be expected to do the following:

British Film: Social-Political Study
Prescribed study for examination up to and including Winter 2012: 'Living
with Crime'
This study allows for an exploration of films in which characters are caught up
in crime or are living within a culture of crime. While allowing for a study of UK
crime films from a genre perspective, the principal focus should be on social
and political issues raised by the films. In some cases the narrative may
concern characters being drawn in to crime or trapped in a crime culture or
trying to resist crime. Films may include Sweet Sixteen, Bullet Boy and
London to Brighton. Alternatively, older films such as Performance and Get
Carter may be studied. Questions that may be raised include ones relating to
gender, race and class. The candidate must show a detailed knowledge of a
minimum of two films.

The first film we will be watching as part of this unit is "Sweet Sixteen".