Social Realism Timeline

As time goes on, the content within film proliferates with it. In this particular blog post I will be examining a few social realist films from 1960 - 2000s and presenting what I have noticed occurs within the selected films within these years.

1960s
KES

- Long takes occur a lot
- The accents are quite unclear
- They wear a school uniform
- The British students have separate desks
- There is a chalk board as oppose to a screen and projector

POOR COW

- Quite graphic with the birth of a child
- English musicians on the soundtrack
- Costume contains top hats
- Old fashioned buggies
- Possible poverty as the female character is looking at a bunch of ladies with buggies whilst she has nothing
- They show the breast feeding
- Traditional stereotypes of the woman staying at home with the child and the man coming home from work
- Terraced housing
- Old fashioned cars
- Old fashioned hair
- Dominantly white ethnicity

1970s
QUADRAPHENIA

- Cheap housing
- Violence: pushed down stairs casually
- Discrimination against schizophrenia
- Tiger print bedding
- Sexual references such as masturbation
- A lot of dark lighting appears
- Long takes appear a lot
- Dominantly white ethnicity 

1980s
MADE IN BRITAIN

- A few 'skinhead' characters
- Rock non-diagetic music
- Use of long takes
- Elderly police
- A lot of swearing occurs
- Nazi symbol

SCUM

- Segregation where the whites and blacks are in different places
- Violence with hitting
- A lot of blood occurs
- Set in a prison
- Pan of boys within long takes
- A lot of anger
- Dominantly white ethnicity

1990s
TRAINSPOTTING

- Rough clothing
- Running from people
- Homing is quite cheap
- Football
- A lot of anger
- Short cuts/takes
- Smoking/drugs
- Bad life choices are displayed

NIL BY MOUTH

- Swearing
- Dirty faces
- Domestic abuse
- Long takes are apparent
- Scars
- Child dealing with mother beaten up
- Dominantly white

2000s
KIDULTHOOD

- Swearing
- Stealing
- Under age drinking
- Stereotypical teenage behaviour
- Ghetto surroundings/behaviour 
- Urban soundtrack
- Teenagers plotting trouble
- Intruding on others
- Beating people up
- Under age sex that is casual
- Drug dealing
- Trespassing

- Wide range of ethnicites

BIGGA THAN BEN

- Immigrants
- Stealing
- Poverty
- Gaining money
- Short cuts
- Violence
- Foreign music