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TEACHERS’ NOTES INTRODUCTION The Film Space’s online resource Selma features a series of curriculum-focused and engaging classroom activities exploring different aspects of Ava DuVernay’s film. Designed primarily for students of history, English, citizenship and religious studies aged 14-18 the Selma resource may also be used in PSHEE.
May 18, 2019 · Selma: Movie Worksheets, Essay Questions, and Discussion Prompts. Subject: Rights and responsibilites. Age range: 14-16. Resource type: Worksheet/Activity. File previews. pdf, 1.9 MB. Few movies have captured Dr. Martin Luther King so thoroughly as the Academy Award-winning "Selma," which details the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of the ...
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This product .zip file includes: A student movie guide, PDF print version (4 pages) A student movie guide, PDF digital fillable form version (4 pages) *An answer key is included with this movie guide, however many answers will vary as students are encouraged to construct their own meaning from the characters’ dialogue and behavior.
Selma was viewed on 5 December 2014 by two Examiners. It was submitted without a category request. However, the film was not classified until 15 December 2014. This is because the film required further viewing by senior members of the BBFC before it was classified. Although the original viewing team agreed that the film should be rated 12A ...
- POINTS - Key Elements of Film Form (Micro Features)
- POINTS – Meaning & Response
- Spectatorship and Ideology
Cinematography Composition and framing – Martin Luther King is central, catching spectators’ attention and highlight his importance; wide-shot to capture his followers who are seated either side of him on the podium. Back-shots in MCU (medium close-up) of the audience, indicating their support and attention. Zoom in when Martin Luther King is picki...
Representations Martin Luther King’s speech represents his approach when leading Afro - Americans against civil rights injustices; demonstrates his intelligence and vision. Representations of the Afro-Caribbean community showing Martin Luther King full support and seeking guidance in protesting for their civil rights and also representations of whi...
Starting points DuVernay’s film offers a reconstruction of historical events around the Civil Rights Movement, representing the ideologies - attitudes, views and behaviours of individuals and groups opposing the movement’s goals; these racist and white supremacists included authority figures such as the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (...
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Nov 4, 2015 · ABSTRACT. Richard H. King's article begins by examining the way Ava DuVernay's recent film Selma deals with the relationship between Martin Luther King and previous accounts/representations of the Civil Rights Movement, and how other feature films such as Mississippi Burning and documentaries such as Stanley Nelson's Freedom Summer depict the movement.
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Feb 6, 2015 · Save for Sidney Lumet and Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s exhaustive, Oscar-nominated documentary King: A Filmed Record… Montgomery to Memphis (1970), the famed American civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr has been strangely under-represented in the cinema. Ava DuVernay’s excellent third film thankfully puts this continued omission right, by focusing on King’s involvement in the three ...
