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Cinema is always evolving and it’s exciting to witness, to explore and to understand. A film such as This Is England is one that has gone some way in transcending its original moment of release and has become something of a landmark in contemporary British cinema.
Every film reflects the concerns of its time, offering a particular way of looking at the world in that culture, that society, that time. To understand a film as fully as possible, you need to know something of the era in which it was produced. As you will have already considered in your Edusites Core Units, film is very much a cultural artefact, a reflection of the society that created and watched it. Each film is influenced by all of the films that have gone before it – the collective consciousness of how we ‘look’ at a film - and will have specific conventions that link it to others of its genre, its type.
For your examination, an understanding of the film’s production and of events in the world at that time will offer perspectives on how to better…
