Where Did the Dominant Genre of British Film Emerge From?
Social Realism in British films peaked during the 1960s when what is commonly referred to as the British New Wave emerged. The new wave directors such as Karel Reisz, Lindsay Anderson and Tony Richardson had made a number of documentaries before moving on to feature films, and many of these had been screened at the (historically important) National Film Theatre event christened ‘Free Cinema’ in the 1950s. Like the auteurs of the French New Wave, many of the British directors were knowledgeable critics as well, affiliated with Sequence magazine. This gave them ample opportunity to promote their agenda. Free Cinema Free Cinema was described by Tony Richardson as “independent of commercial cinema, free to make intensely personal statements and free to champion the director’s right to control the picture”. Documentaries such as O Dreamland (Anderson, 1956) about an English coastal resort and Momma Don’t Allow (Reisz and Richardson, 1956) about a suburban jazz club put into practice these d
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