Research Log 2 Social Realism: Takako Seino

Written By: Takako Seino
Published: 2010

'The British New Wave was one of the major phases of social realism in the United Kingdom'
'British Cinema and Social Realism since the 1960s'
(Page 4)

'New Wave, explored a new course of feature film making with a new subject matter, usually contemporary, and pursued an experimental spirit in style and editing. The film makers explored the margins of society and projected industrial working class people mostly in the midlands and northern England onto the screen'
'British Cinema and Social Realism since the 1960s'
(Page 4)

'Set in real locations of industrial towns, most of these films have young working class men as the main characters, who, unsatisfied with with their life, are seeking escape.' 
'British Cinema and Social Realism since the 1960s'
(Page 4)

'Edinburgh and Sheffield... featured the unemployed working class or, as critics like Claire Monk, Paul Dave and Mike Wayne termed it, the 'underclass', a term coined by Charles Murray, which 'conceals the systematic destructive effects of capitalism on... the working class' (Monk 2000a: 156, Wayne 2002: 288, Dave 2006: 83)' <---Conventions of Trainspotting
'British Cinema and Social Realism since the 1960s'
(Page 16)

'As Monk suggests the underclass film in the 1990s showed two tendencies: the gender anxiety of male characters, and the new labour politics of 'rebranding' UK (2000b: 278)... Theatre arts, fashion, design, music, and films; all of which constitute the main body of the UKs 'Art' industry'
'British Cinema and Social Realism since the 1960s'
(Page 16)