Comparing Rebel Without a Cause and Ferris Bueller's Day Off — Eduqas GCSE Film Studies C670
Eduqas GCSE Film Studies · C670
Comparing Rebel Without a Cause and Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Comparison
What you need to know
Two rebels compared: Jim, who wants a family that works and a place to belong, and Ferris, who rebels for fun against school and its rules.
How the teen film changed between 1955 and 1986: from melodrama about delinquency to comedy and fantasy.
Narrative compared: each story's single day, the outsider and the friends, and the endings.
Contexts compared: the new teenager of the 1950s and the consumer teenager of the 1980s.
Representation compared: young people, parents and authority, gender and masculinity.
Kept to what the comparison question rewards: points of comparison in genre, narrative, context and representation, each linking an era's context to a specific choice in that film; film form appears only as brief support for a comparison, since each film's form has a lesson of its own.
A plan and model paragraphs for the 20-mark comparison question, with both films given equal weight.
Worked answers with their marks, and practice questions to try, each headed 'Practice question' with its marks.
Quote only short lines of dialogue you're sure of, a few words at a time, and base every point on what happens in the finished film.
