SOCIAL REALIST FILMS
Social Realism in films is representative of real life, with all its difficulties. The stories and people portrayed are everyday characters, usually from working class backgrounds. Typically, films within the social realist genre are gritty, urban dramas about the struggle to survive the daily grind.
The Social Realism Genre was born in the 1960s in an era called British New Wave. Amongst the many films that emerged during the new wave of social realism, there are dozens of examples that are still popular to this day such as Look Back in Anger, A Taste Of Honey, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, This Sporting Life, Billy Liar, Cathy Come Home, Up The Junction and Room At The Top. You will probably have heard of more recent examples of social realist films, such as This is England, Kidulthood and Ill Manors.
YOUR HOMEWORK!
Research at least one social realist film (see list below)
Do NOT just copy the Wikipedia entry, and please do NOT all do the same film - try to find one no one else has done, or at least to say something no one else has said!
Post a link to a picture relating to the film (a poster, a screen shot or the DVD cover) and identify at least three ways the film fits the social realist genre.
MAKE SURE YOU COMMENT USING YOUR OWN REAL NAME, NOT "ANONYMOUS", OR IT MAY LOOK LIKE YOU HAVEN'T DONE THE WORK - AND DETENTIONS WILL ENSUE...
Examples of Social Realist films:
Adulthood
This is England
Half Nelson
Kidulthood
Fish Tank
Kes
Looking for Eric
Nil by Mouth
I Am Slave
Tyrannosaur
Fish Tank
Vera Drake
Secrets and Lies
Sweet Sixteen
Bullet Boy
Life is Sweet
Billy Liar
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
A Taste of Honey
Look Back in Anger
This Sporting Life
Up the Junction
Room at the Top
