Representation in Social Realism

Representation Within Social Realism

• We should knowledge that film is a large commercial medium instead of an education tool.

• The phrase "social extension" means extending the range of characters to include groups and individuals seldom represented on screens in mainstream cinema.

Lindsay Anderson

• Lindsay Anderson's opinions of cinemas treatment for the working class and what he arrived to do was that cinema had severely underrepresented the working-class his work provides an example of the way social realist filmmakers strive to improve upon previous conceptions of realism.

Representation of women

• Women were represented as often the target for vitriolic attacks for their working-class heroes.

• The expectations worth feisty working-class female character portrayaPs.

• In the 1980s women were represented as being more important through the workforce in society as a whole.

• To summarise, representation in social realist texts mainly focus on the working-class characters in British social realist films.