Hartismere School

Est. 1451. An outstanding coeducational secondary school & sixth form college and England's first academy

Home Login

Ideology in the opening sequence of SOTD

See also...

How SOTD explores growth

Shaun of the Dead - post-modern intertextual references

Explore...

Nick Broomfield interview

Filmmakers Quotes Quiz | Film

Mastering the Movie Colour Palette: del Toro

Under the Skin - Film Form, Narrative and Ideology

Fallen Angels: A Wong Kar Wai Masterpiece

Modernism - Movie List

Expressionism

Under the Skin - featurette

Is Vertigo the best or worst movie ever?

Ideological Critical Approach - SOTD and Captain Fantastic

New...

Internships

March 2026 Year 11 Mocks

Get involved in the Hartismere: 'Focus Your Fitness February Challenge!

Summer 2026 Examinations

Parents Evening :: Year 11

Teacher of English

Farrand on Film: GCSE Film Studies, Component 1: US Films

Teacher of Mathematics

Discover...

Film Studies GCE Examinations SOTD Do The Right Thing Carol The New York Times Editing Teacher Training Working Spike Lee Under The Skin House Of Flying Daggers Cinematography Intern Vacancies ZEN Careers and Training Schools Captain Fantastic

Uh-oh - we were unable to load our website on your browser so we're showing you a plain HTML version.

We use many features found in modern browsers and regrettably yours seems incompatible.

However this legacy version contains (very, very nearly) all the same content. Each page is rendered on our server and doesn't rely on any browser features except the odd font. It doesn't even need Javascript or fancy CSS. It's like being in 1995!

Your browser is reporting itself to us as Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com). Please consider updating your browser to make the most of our website.

If you would like to try our proper website again - you can do so here...