John Hill, “Working Class Realism”,sex, class and realism: British Cinema 1956-1963
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Miss Elizabeth Ball Eliot College FI303 Introduction to Narrative Cinema Essay 3: A Written reconstruction John Hill, "Working Class Realism", sex, class and realism: British Cinema 1956-1963 When "Working class realism" emerged within British cinema in 1956, it became acknowledged as a break of determination to tackle certain social and real issues. This was presented as a "New Wave" within British film and offered an opposition to the original procedures and approaches to British Cinema. "Working class realism" an analytical piece by John Hill, reveals to us how, coinciding with the 'new Britain' that was stabilizing and evolving after the war, was a 'New wave' of British social problem films. They were acknowledged for the fact that they were 'realist' films with a purpose to reveal the reality of Britain onto the film screen without disguising it with the 'Hollywood style' facades. This new concept involved the revolutionary move to include the industrial working class within...

