![]() ![]() ![]() From this ‘interpretation of real life’ came social realism, as it was a merging of documentary and fictional narrative. Even though documentary is primarily concerned with documenting real life, it could never be completely true to real life because using filmic conventions such as interesting camera shots, editing certain shots in sequence and the use of voice over’s it really became an interpretation of real life. Documentary is concerned with recording the real, it had a sense of social purpose as it was used to inform the public of social problems as well as being an entertaining form of public observation and in a way this was Britain’s response to the big films coming out of Hollywood. Social realism films stemmed from the documentary movement that came about in the 1920’s in Britain. ![]() ![]() Think British realism, and you think inevitably of kitchen sinks, tall chimneys, cobblestones, railway arches, bleak stretches of moor or beach, graffiti lined council estates, people and landscapes placed in spare and striking juxtaposition. This essay will be a close examination of the 2009 film Fish Tank and how it uses these social realist traditions. The social realist tradition was first made popular in British cinema in the 1960’s with films such as Saturday Night, Sunday Morning, and has remained a dominant part of the British cinema industry right up until the present day, ‘ While our cinema has experienced all the fluctuations in fortune of Hollywood’s first export territory, realism has been Britain’s richest gift to world cinema.’ (Armstrong: There are many cinematic conventions that can be deeply associated with social realism cinema, many of which can be first seen in the 1960’s films but are also relevant today as British films are still adopting these social realist conventions. ![]()
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