Notes on Somers Town

Monday, October 19, 2009

What is a British Film??

. Britsh films are often low budget
. They are about ordinary people
. Classy
. Working class heroes

Depiction -
Comic Relief
Crime
Maids

They also often broke taboos

Alot of brit films are about leaving ID behind for instance in Somers Town Tomo moves to London leaving New Castle behind.

In the 80's there was huge un employment this was reflected on many films

The lecturer then decided to talk about simiar authors :-

Mike Leigh with the film Vera Drake

Shane meadows with This is England

1 comments:

JW said...

Well done Chris. Try to find out a little about the other directors that the lecturer mentioned.

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