Web Pages:

Source 14: ’Cancer teen movie ‘Fault In Our Stars’ beats box office’s biggest blockbusters to take £3.4m on its opening weekend in the UK. Daily Mail;

2014 06 25 The piece of research enabled me to get a stronger argument that the film was a bit hit in the media this year and that it has been spoken about a lot. I decided to use this statistic as a lot of people I speak to who are not big film enthusiasts and don’t fit the audience of this film went and saw it.

Source 10: ’The top 5 causes of premature death’. NHS Choices; NHS. 2014 06 16 This showed me how cancer is a spoke about topic and is the illness which is affecting people the most in the UK today, this make sme aware that the au-dience that watch these films have most likely suffered from an experience with cancer or if they haven’t, had heard a story as it is a very common illness

to have before reaching the average age we are supposed to until.. 75. Cancer is creating a lot of premature deaths. Source 16: Top 10 fiction books: 1. The Fault In Our Stars, John Green. Enter-tainment Time; 2012 12 04 This allowed me to see that before the film came out, there was already a big presold audience as the book had a massive success. This allowed me to see

that there must be a strong reason for people to be interested in the plot of the film as it causes a top seller of the year of the release and a box office of 3.4m on the first opening weekend in the UK. Source 17: Jodi Picoult, JP. The Fault In Our Stars. Penguin Books; 2012 01 11

I found this review very interesting because of the way Jodi Picoult wrote the book of the film which I am doing for my secondary film, My Sister’s Keeper. She has almost built conventions of cancer film in her review which I like about it. She picsk up on the idea that JG uses humour which is weird to see her admire as there is no humour in her novel which share similar themes.

Source 4: Paula Bernstein, PB, How Indie Director Josh Boone Landed ‘The Fault In Our Stars’: He Pitched it as ‘Titantic’. Indiewire; 2014 06 06. - I found this piece of text very contrasting to John Green’s views to why he wrote TFIOS. It was interesting to see another perspective of the film from the Direc-tor’s point of view. I feel like this piece of this text however is not as solid as John Green’s opinions on his film and Green’s opinion are deeper and more

thought out than Boone’s comparison to an Oscar winning film. Both films in-

clude romance and death but other than that, I see no other links so I person-ality don’t agree with Boone’s quote in the extract. Source 3: Sara Vilkomerson, SV, The Fault In Our Stars (cover story). Enter-

tainment Weekly, Issue 1310, page 24-32. 2014 09 05. - This article presents one of my key quotes from John Green: “I now believe that short lives can be good lives — full and rich — and that was the real lesson Esther taught me”. I feel like this quote backs my argument that Cancer films are made to help us deal with situations and are made to show alternatives to the misery.

Source 2: Peter Bradshaw, PB, The Fault In Our Stars review – manipulative and crass. The Guardian. 2014 06 19 – This was the first review that made me think about target audience for my three films I am researching. I found on TFIOS. It contained an interesting quote which says “there may be people who can witness a halfway competent dramatic representation of the death of children from cancer without choking up, I am not among them – and it was

the same before I became a parent.” S Granger, SG, Spotlight Review: The Fault In Our Starts 3.5 stars. Video Li-brarian. – A review I could find nowhere to add to my script, however it did describe the film as having “surprisingly wicked wit and barbed wisdom” which I found a little different to most of the other reviews I have read.

Source 9: Kim Newman, KM. The Last Song. Sight & Sound, Volume 20 Issue 6, p60-80. 2010 06 01 – I found an article which includes a similar idea of what I had for The Last Song in this review. “impossible nobility, walks on the beach, on-off love affairs, terminal illness (without the mess dying of cancer usually involves)”. This allows me to think that the idea of The Last Song showing can-cer not affecting the father’s fun with his children and that people respond to

cancer differently as he did not feel the need to tell his children until he was truly ill and seeked for help. Source 5: Rebecca J Rosen, RJR. How John Green Wrote A Cancer Book But Not A ‘Bullshit Cancer’ Book. The Atlantic. 2013 02 25 This is one of my favourite pieces of research I found as it expects how John

Green personally feels about cancer and it’s representation on it through the media. I think that is important how he highlights that this film was made to show the audience a different idea on how cancer patients should be por-trayed as, instead of dying and sick. “I guess, and I felt that the stories that I was reading sort of oversimplified and sometimes even dehumanized them”

I like the use of the word ‘dehumanised’ because that is also how I see cancer patients being treated as today, like they are treated very different to those who are healthy and well.

Books Source 1: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, EKP, On Death and Dying. Macmillian Pub-lishing company, 1969. – This is the book that taught me about the Kubler Ross theory, each chapter is based on a stage of depression and the depth of them all. The information in the book other than the stages of depression are

about how Kubler-Ross created her theory, which was researching people’s behavior after World War 2. Source 18: John Green, JG. The Fault In Our Stars. United States: Penguin Publishing. 2012 01 11 Researching into the book enabled me to realise that the book was a big seller

aswell as the film. The book reached a huge audience which could arguably have brought in the audience for the film. The book’s statistics showed me that the novel is very modern as is this illness.

Films: Source 6: The Fault In Our Stars. (2014). [DVD] United States: John Boone.

Source 7: My Sister’s Keeper. (2009). [DVD] United States: Nick Cassavetes. Source 8: The Last Song. (2010). [DVD] United States: Julie Anne Robinson.

Primary Research:

Source 11: Horton, LH. Interview with Lucy Abbott. Welling School; 2014 10 17 This interview gave me a clear interpretation of what a fan of the novel and

the film thought of the ideas of the plot. It was nice to speak to someone who supported the popularity of the book in 2012 and also the popularity of the film when it was released this year. Hearing the ideas of TFIOS by a person who arguably has respected opinions for it due to reading and being part of the plot in two different ways enabled strong and clear opinions.

Source 12: Rushmer, LR. Interview with Lucy Abbott. Welling School; 2014 11 08

This interview showed a counter argument for what my other research was saying. It was interesting to look further into my audiences answers when they answered the questionnaire and fortunately when looking into people who disagreed with my opinions set through a questionnaire I had an interest-

ing debate and received a respectable counter argument that I could use.

Source 13: ABBOTT, LA. Questionnaire on if cancer films are feel good films / what films the audience have seen. 2014 10 08 I feel this was not my strongest bit of primary research, this is because of the ideas these people had on cancer films were also based on films which I was

not doing in my primary research. The main thing I got out of this research was what films use for my secondary films and what seems to be the most popular films for the younger target audience for boys and girls. Source 15: ABBOTT, LA. Questionaire on “Do you think ‘The Fault In Our Stars’ contains a positive message for those who are suffering from a similar social situa-

tion?” 2014 11 18 I wanted more accurate and relevant responses to my focus film so I based the ques-

tion entirely on my focus film. I asked a lot more people than I did in my last ques-tionnaire (double the amount) and it made me feel like my argument was stable and not just a bias opinion. It creased more primary research for me as I had people who disagreed with the statement and I wanted to know why.

Deselected:

Web pages:

A.O SCOTT, AS, Young Love, Complicated by Cancer. The New York Times 2014 09 11. - I really liked a quote from this article which was “expertly built machine for the mass production of tears” but however I did decide to not use this in my presentation as I soon found no possible link for this in the presen-tation. This article is trying to say that TFIOS is made for us to cry which is conveying why John Green made the movie.

Tony Palmer, TP, A Relevant Film Review: The Fault In Our Stars. Yorkshire Cancer Research 2014 06 26 - I found this piece of this very interesting as it claims that the help Hazel gets to live is actually not discovered research yet. The tubes which help her lungs are not like an existed product to help cancer patients. This made me question if John Green is giving people false hope and is being a little too optimistic about the progress in cancer recovery as in reali-

ty, Hazel’s character would not have lived as long as she claims she has been alive for in the film.

Books:

Jennifer L. McMahon, JPM, Visions of Death: Native American Cinema And The Transformative Power Of Death. Death In Classic And Contemporary

Film. Chapter 13, page 199-201 - There is a theory called Becker 1973 called ‘Terror Management Theory’ which is a study that claims some films are made to help you deal with death anxiety. This is an interesting extract of a book but the text is not directly about cancer, it was targeting more of the fear of death of old age.

Leslie J Reagant, Nancy Tomes, Paula A. Treichler. LJR, NT, PAT. An Emerging genre, Medicine’s Moving Pictures: Medicine, health and bodies in American film and literature. Chapter 1, Page 19-21. – This is another book I begun looking into, although the title of the book seemed relevant to what I am re-searching. I surprisingly found no relevant links from this and my statement.