focusing on an individual or group of individuals. It is envisaged that this will allow 'star-study' but will also engage with the historical developments, cultural features, fandom as well as issues of performance.
Genre:
this may focus on a single genre or a range of genres and is designed to develop investigations that consider film as a structured products that is designed to relate to other similar films. Approaches here may include genre-study (codes, conventions, stars etc), genre as a tool of industry, evolution in genres, genre as national cinema and genre as a cultural product.
Technology:
focusing on the impact or development of a particular technology. This will include direct approaches such as the development of CGI, the coming of 'the talkies', or the attempts at realising the world through colour as well as indirect approaches such as tracing Early Cinema's use of the Close-Up, following the impact of bullet-time editing or the adoption by Hollywood of wire-flying techniques.
Social and Political Contexts:
focuses either on the social and political contexts of procution (such as McCarthy era films) or on the commentary offered by films on particular social and political contexts (such as the Iraq war).
Auteur:
focusing on the auteur (in the broadest sense) either individual, collaborative, or any less conventional approach.
Institutional: this may focus on a national cinema context (paticularly one that is directly controlled or sponsored), a Studio context or a body of work produced 'institutionally' such as the films of the Empire Marketing Board.
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