SECTION A & TA REQUIREMENTS
TA REQUIRMENTS II
2026-2027 PRESCRIBED FILMS
2026-2027 PRESCRIBED FILMS II
SECTION B
100

In this section of the Textual Analysis you must include the film title, release date, and director.

What is the introductory/first paragraph?

100

This is the maximum word count for the Textual Analysis.

 What are 1750 words?

100

This film follows a German soldier experiencing the horrors of World War I.

What is All Quiet on the Western Front?

100

This film follows a domestic worker navigating life in 1970s Mexico.

What is Roma?

100

This refers to how critics responded to the film.

What is critical reception?

200

This is the number of cultural contexts that must be included in the Textual Analysis 

What are 3 cultural context?

200

This is the time that must be focused on in the Textual Analysis

What is 5 minutes

200

This film satirizes nuclear war and political paranoia.

What is Dr. Strangelove?

200

This film focuses on aliens living in segregated conditions in South Africa.

What is District 9?

200

This section explains the meaning and message of the film.

What is the film’s interpretation?

300

 Categories such as cinematography, editing, or sound.

Question: What are film elements?

300

Pictures included to illustrate what happened in the film you are analyzing.

What are screenshots?

300

This film tells the story of a boy suing his parents due to poverty and neglect.

What is Capernaum?

300

This film takes place on a train during a zombie outbreak.

What is Train to Busan?

300

This refers to how audiences understand and interpret the film’s meaning.

What is audience interpretation?

400

Close-ups, formal dress, and footsteps are examples of this.

What are film techniques?

400

This is a list of reliable sources that you used to complete your Textual Analysis.

What is the Works Cited Page?

400

This film involves brainwashing and political conspiracy during the Cold War.

What is The Manchurian Candidate?

400

This film explores leadership and global responsibility in Wakanda.


What is Black Panther?

400

These people reliable sources such as Magazine Editors, Articles Writers and Professional Film Examiners/Viewers

What is a Film Critic

500

The detailed examination and interpretation of a movie’s technical, narrative, and thematic elements to understand how they create meaning in essay or written form

What is the Textual Analysis?

500

This is the term for what is captured in the frame of the camera lens.

What is MIS-EN-SCENE?

500

This film uses surreal imagery to critique consumerism and social norms.

What is Daisies?

500

This film follows a boy pursuing ballet during a miners’ strike.

What is Billy Elliot?

500

Rotten Tomamtoes, reviews, and box office numbers suggests.

What is the audience reception?

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