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Item 14: ‘Sight and Sound’ - September 2008

Review of the film ('Somers Town') around the release period. Very useful as this pinpoints some of the main social and cultural issues that are being addressed in the film, such as the heavy re-development in transport between King’ Cross and Euston stations and how Mariusz is employed under this. Details references to the 1960’s in the character of Marek - ‘slow, mumblemouthed with a camera (very 60’s)’ and 1950’s kitchen sinkism, which will help me to further my research topics.

Item 10: ‘Dedicated followers of fascism’

(http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2007/apr/13/2)

Article from the Guardian newspaper website where journalist Sarfraz Manzoor reflects on his views of the skinhead sub-culture of the 1980’s and how this affected him. This is very useful as it shows what emotions ‘This Is England’ can provoke in its audiences - Manzoor discusses his fear of Skinheads because of there association with the National Front and how ‘This Is England’ caused him to ponder his thoughts on his childhood.

Item 13: ‘Sight and Sound’ - July 2002

Article entitled ‘Cannes 2002, Rich and Strange’ where there are a large number of reviews from the Cannes film festival 2002, where ‘Once Upon A Time in the Midlands’ is hailed as ‘Serio-comic studies of East Midlands manners and mores’. A bit of a brief comment, but it is useful to see how different reviewers capture and view the cultural elements of the Midlands from this experience.

Item 9: Kitchen-sink drama

(http://changingminds.org/disciplines/storytelling/plots/classic/kitchen-sink.htm)

Webpage offering an outlook on what makes a kitchen-sink drama. I researched this topic after reading the ‘Sight and Sound’ review of ‘Somers Town’ from September 2008. This was useful as I learned that kitchen-sink drama often presents conflict and social deprivation - two key themes of the characters in ‘Somers Town’, and I can now consider this when next viewing the film.