Media lesson, 9/7/09

1950s

• Dam Busters (1955)
• Many war movies
• Fixed class structure
• Nostalgic

New Wave

• Saturday night, Sunday morning (1960)
• Working class Protagonist
• Gritty
• Strong sense of North/South divide
• Set against industrial background
• "kitchen sink" dramas
• Directors trained on documentary makers

"Swinging London"

• Italian job (1969)
• Optimist
• Interested in youth culture/fashion
• Class structure more fluid
• playful

1970s: post-hays code

• Get Carter (1971)
• More graphic depiction of sex and violence
• Gritty
• Amoral
• Anti-hero as protagonist
• Strong North/South divide