‘Whatever people say I am…’: Multiple voices on screen and page in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.
The British New Wave in cinema, which ran from 1958 to 1962, was built around the adaptation of a number of literary texts that derived their ‘newness’ by vocalising working-class protagonists, hitherto largely suppressed in popular visions of British society. As a knock-on-effect, British screen cu...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Edinburgh
2009-12-01
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| Series: | Forum |
| Online Access: | http://journals.ed.ac.uk/forum/article/view/626 |
| Summary: | The British New Wave in cinema, which ran from 1958 to 1962, was built around the adaptation of a number of literary texts that derived their ‘newness’ by vocalising working-class protagonists, hitherto largely suppressed in popular visions of British society. As a knock-on-effect, British screen culture refreshed, suffering as it did from the same level of under-representation that blighted literature. In a wider context, the films’ freshness and vigour can also be seen to be identified in a new approach to film style and aesthetics which had more in common with the European art cinema than the staid traditions of British filmmaking. |
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| ISSN: | 1749-9771 |