Question: Analyse the key features of two or more northern, working class films of the 1990s relating the films clearly to their social and political contexts.
Answer: The two films under analysis in this essay are Billy Elliott (Stephen Daldrey, 2000) and The Full Monty (Peter Catenao, 1997), which have politically and sociologically common themes. Both films deal with northern British industrial crises and how the subsequent effects impact on the affected communities. Billy Elliott is set in County Durham and deals with the 1984/85 miners strike, while The Full Monty is about Sheffield and the effects modernisation and mechanisation of the steel industry have on employment within local communities and both films explore how individuals and communities cope with their varying predicaments....(short extract)
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- Subject: Media Studies
- Course: Media Studies
- Level: Degree
- Year: 1st
- Mark: 69%
- Words: 1332
- Date submitted: November 04, 2009
- Date written: Not available
- References: Yes
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 2283
