Celebrating Mod Subculture, Soul Music & Kitchen Sink Realism Across The Decades
Discussion of Social Realism and Kitchen Sink Realism. Including the Angry Young Men Movement, what Kitchen Sink Realism / Kitchen Sink Drama means. Discussion of the literature, novels and authors. Including British New Wave Cinema.
Angry Young Women Writers of the 1950s and 1960s During the 1950s and 1960s, a rebellious collective of working- and middle-class writers transformed British literature. Dispirited by the strict UK class system, these “Angry Young Men” and “Angry Young Women” shared an intense desire to portray the gritty and raw reality of working-class life. A reality which most of them …
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Further Reading for British New Wave Cinema Below are a brief collection of links to articles regarding further reading for “British New Wave Cinema” . This is regardless of whether you are a novice or an avid collector and viewer of these and “Kitchen Sink Realism” films. Kitchen Sink Realism Films Based on Influential Novels & Plays An article I …
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Whilst still at school, I discovered a genre of literature that would become a lifelong passion. My first encounter came in May 1982, when Stan Barstow’s A Kind of Loving was broadcast on television. I was thirteen at the time, and the story of Vic Brown stayed with me. I went on to read Barstow’s Vic Brown trilogy and began collecting …
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