A2 Literature

Click HERE to take The Guardian's 'Hedda Gabler' quiz!

AS Literature

Click HERE for a glowing review of a performance of 'Cat on a Hot Roof' which features an all black cast. What are the racial politics of this play? How are the black characters portrayed? How are they treated by other characters?

A2 Comms

Coca Cola and Christmas

How has Coca Cola used Christmas (and even shaped our meanings of Christmas) as a way of constructing the soft drink as a desirable cultural product?

Haddon Sundblom's early pictures of Santa Claus for Coca Cola in the 1930s were inspired by the 19th century poem Twas the Night before Christmas:


Group 1: 1995 advert

Group 2: 1997 advert

Group 3: 1998 advert

Group 4: 2012 advert

AS Literature

Click HERE for Laurence Olivier's production of 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'. In what ways does it differ from the Hollywood version starring Elizabeth Taylor?

A2 Literature

Click HERE for the full BBC version of Ibsen's 'Hedda Gabler' from 1972. Remember that this constitutes a 'reading' of this play, so if you can talk about the screenwriter / director's decision making, this will boost your AO3 mark.

AS Literature

Click HERE to watch the full 'Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster' documentary (we recently watched a short section in class)