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This is England Flashcards

1
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Who directed This is England and when did it come out?

A

Shane Meadows

2006

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What are the themes in This is England?

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Falklands 
Masculinity
Poverty
Racism
Skinheads
Thatcherism
Violence 
War 
Working class
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When was the film set and how does it portray the working classes?

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1983
WC affected by Recession
Lead 🔝 discrimination - xenophobia
Fear - jobs

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Context

When was the racial ➗ heightened ➕ why?

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1981
Brixton riots
Climax to months of racial tension between local African Caribbean communities ➕ police

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When was the second wave of the Skinhead movement, what was it a result of and how can associations like the Nation Front effect the movement?

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80’s
Council estates 🔝 high unemployment
😡 system 👀 for solidarity
Soldier like appearance ➕ attitude = let down - looking for people to blame easy 🎯

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What was the original Skinhead culture born out of?

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Working class youths ➕ wide rush generation 💜 for music
Reggae music 
👀 looking for an identity
Shaved head
Ben Sherman shirt 
Blue jeans
Braces
Boots
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Explain the political situation in 1983 + the conflictions?

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Recession + mass unemployment = Conservative
Conservatives = re elected - Y - Falklands victory
First past the post

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What resulted with the Conservatives re election?

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De industrialisation
Affected - steel industry + mining industry
Conservatives benefit Londoners + middle classes 
Destroying - working class areas
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Explain the narrative binary opposite with Shaun and the ending?

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Shaun’s 1st run in with Mr. Sandhu’s corner shop + when he turns the shop over with Combo.
Surrogate father figures - Woody + Combo
Ambiguous ending - Milky survive? Combo punished?

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How does the open ending link to the social real element of the film?

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We don’t know whether Milky survives
Combo in prison?
Racial tensions still there
Unemployment

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Explain the ideology?

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Anti - Nationalist stance 
Spectator aligned with Shaun
❎ sympathise with Combo 
Combo = violent bully
Fear for Shaun's morality y Combo
Brutality of war - opening sequence
Unflattering archive to Thatcher opening sequence
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Another point on Ideology with Shaun looking at a picture of his father?
Graffiti?

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Shrill voice of Thatcher coming out the radio

Graffiti ‘Maggie is a twat’.

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What is the meaning and response of the film?

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Social realism - social + racial injustice + economic hardship through pictures of life’s struggles
Meadows influenced by Ken Loach’s social realist style.
Working class, unknown actors, shooting locations

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When was the New Wave iconography embedded in the film?

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1980’s

Opening council estate

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How is masculinity represented in the film?

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Absent father died Falklands
Woody = supportive, nurturing takes Shaun under his wing.
Combo = violent,😡 aggressive

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How is Woody’s influence on Shaun portrayed?

How is Combo’s influence on Shaun portrayed?

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Woody = Shaun laughs at the bullies + becomes apart of the ‘family’

Combo = Celebrates Shaun standing up to him.
Turns Shaun’s anger about his father’s death into something that will suit his own racist ideology

17
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How is Class represented in Shaun’s clothing particularly his Flares?

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Working class = trend at time = tight jeans. = poor = hand me downs.
None of the main characters have jobs = Lol does.
Mr Sandhu corner shop

18
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Explain the mise en scene in the opening scene Shaun’s bedroom, what are the implications?

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Lacks identity
Paint chipped 
Run down 
Basic furniture
Most important prop = Picture of Shaun's dad.
Army uniform = died Falklands
19
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Explain the representation of age through Shaun, opening scene?

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Shaun gets up like a man puts his head in his hands
= weary mind
Child been through alot

20
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Explain the cinematography of when Shaun meets the Skinheads?

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Wide established shot = location = underpass.
Shaun centre frame
Contrast 💡 shaun standing in 💡 shadowy bypass
Implies = recruited - underclass - pushed edge of society

21
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What does the opening sequence of the gang first meeting Shaun portray? And camera being hand held?

Camera cuts between Woody and Shaun.

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Immediate alliance - Woody + Shaun have.

Connected with the audience = social real element.

22
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Describe the mise en scene in the opening sequence?

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Graffiti - underpass, connotes - rough , working class estate
Stereotypical Skinheads
Doc Martins, braces, checked shirted shaved heads

23
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How are the Skinheads represented in the opening of the film?

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No education
No job = day under bypass
Gang smoking, drinking = lost nothing to do
Clear hierarchy - Woody = leader - invites Shaun + reprimands Gadget he bullies Shaun away

24
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Explain the mise en scene in Combo’s speech?

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White shirt = identity
Tattoos
Body language passionate = waves his arms around, punctuates - fingers.
Points to head + 💜 “This is England and This is England”
Groups body language = awkward, hunched, hands infront of them
Woody = 👀⬇
Combo prison mate only 1 in agreement = threatening body language constantly 👀 around challenge anyone who disagrees

25
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Explain Sound in Combo’s speech This is England?

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❎ non-diegetic 🔇
Just Combo’s speech + realism + ⬆ awkwardness
Powerful dialogue - swearing + racism = his point across “three and half million of us who can’t find fucking work”.
Audience understand Y + his influence

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Explain the cinematography used in Combo’s speech?

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Camera = uncomfortably close - Combo - difficult to detract from what he’s saying.
Wide shots = show Combo centre of the room
Emphasises distance between him + rest

27
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Analyse the cinematography in Combo’s attack on Milky?

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Close up shots - Milky smiling = spectator - uncomfortable. Shaun is begging him to 🚫
POV shot - Milky - spectator align = Milky ~ intensity.
Combo rage = intense ~ close ups, Shaun is being held down whilst the assault is happening = claustrophobic + helpless

28
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Analyse the mise en scene - Combo attack on Milky?

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England flag pinned - wall = National Front ideology.
Milky + Combo = dressed Skinhead - only difference = colour-skin
White pillow soaked with blood - destruction - innocence - red violent

29
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Analyse the sound Combo’s attack on Milky?

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Non-diegetic classical piano soundtrack = contrapuntal - Combo’s violent outbursts ‘stop smiling at me or I will knock that fucking smile off your face”🎹 intensifies attack.
Kicking, punching + screaming = sicking intense

30
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Analyse the final scenes mise en scene?

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England flag - patriotic -symbolise NF = racist
Shaun throws - flag - sea - disposing racist ideology
Flag - gift from Combo - disposing connection

31
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Analyse the editing in the final scene?

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Series of long takes = spectator connect with Shaun

Contrast to rapid pace montage editing title sequence

32
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Analyse the sound in the final sequence?

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Non diegetic cover of The Smith’s Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
Lyrics “see, the luck that I’ve had, can make a good man turn bad”
Parallel soundtrack portrays all the character arcs

33
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Analyse the cinematography in the final scene?

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Tracking
Wide shots - Shaun’s isolation - lost again
Final shot of the film - close ups Shaun’s face 😢 determined - breaks 4th wall

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