Genre in British Social Realism

By Hannah Burgess GENRE IN BRITISH SOCIAL REALISM

HISTORY OF BRITISH SOCIAL REALISM ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],The Lumiere Brothers

BRITISH CINEMA IN THE 1930s-40s ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Producer Michael Balcon

FILMS AND WARTIME ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

FREE CINEMA 1950s AND BRITISH NEW WAVE 1960s ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

ISSUES SHOWN IN FILM (SEX, MONEY AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS) ,[object Object],Karel Reisz Tony Richardson

THE NEW WAVE CINEMA ,[object Object],[object Object],Directors from Ken Loach to Patrick Keiller , and films from Mike Leigh's High Hopes (1988) to The Full Monty (1997) have addressed the erosion of regional and class identities amid a landscape rendered increasingly uniform by consumerism.

KEN LOACH AND MIKE LEIGH ,[object Object],[object Object],Descendants of the realist flowering at the BBC in the 1960s, Ken Loach and Mike Leigh assessed the impact of the consumer society on family life, charting the erosion of the welfare state and the consensus that built it . Looking back, Loach's work seems to reflect the shift from the collectivist mood of the war years to the individualism of the post-war decades in its very form. Loach's films went from the improvised long-take naturalism of Poor Cow and Kes (both 1969) to the 'social melodrama' of Raining Stones (1993) and Ladybird Ladybird (1994), wider social issues now explored via emotional and dramatic individual stories.

CHANNEL 4 ,[object Object],As the funding environment grew more precarious, by the 1990s a formulaic 'triumph-over-adversity' narrative combining the streets and cityscapes of traditional British realism with the feel-good vibe of Hollywood individualism answered the challenge of reiterating a national cinema amid spreading multiplexes.

MEN AND WOMEN IN FILM ,[object Object],[object Object]

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