British New Wave

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cinematic movement film movement

British New Wave was a late-1950s and early-1960s British film movement known for its gritty social realism, focus on working-class life, and stylistic break from traditional studio filmmaking.

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Label	Occurrences
British New Wave canonical	17
British New Wave cinema	9
British New Wave film movement	1
British New Wave filmmakers	1
British New Wave of cinema	1
British realist cinema	1
British social realist filmmakers	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cinematic movement ⓘ film movement ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United Kingdom ⓘ
emergedFrom	Free Cinema documentary movement ⓘ
hasAlternativeName	British New Wave ⓘ surface form: British New Wave cinema British New Wave ⓘ surface form: British New Wave film movement British New Wave ⓘ surface form: British New Wave of cinema
hasCharacteristic	black-and-white cinematography ⓘ break from traditional studio filmmaking ⓘ critique of class structure ⓘ depiction of youth disillusionment ⓘ focus on working-class life ⓘ gritty realism ⓘ kitchen sink realism ⓘ location shooting ⓘ naturalistic acting ⓘ regional accents ⓘ social realism ⓘ use of non-professional actors ⓘ
industryContext	British film industry ⓘ
influenced	British social realist cinema ⓘ contemporary British independent film ⓘ later British television drama ⓘ
influencedBy	Angry Young Men ⓘ surface form: Angry Young Men movement Social realism ⓘ surface form: British theatre of social realism French New Wave ⓘ Italian Neorealism ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
movementPeriod	early 1960s ⓘ late 1950s ⓘ
notableDirector	John Schlesinger ⓘ Karel Reisz ⓘ Lindsay Anderson ⓘ Tony Richardson ⓘ
notableScreenwriter	Alan Sillitoe ⓘ John Osborne ⓘ Shelagh Delaney ⓘ
notableWork	A Taste of Honey ⓘ Billy Liar ⓘ Look Back in Anger ⓘ Room at the Top ⓘ Saturday Night and Sunday Morning ⓘ The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner ⓘ This Sporting Life ⓘ
primaryMedium	feature film ⓘ
relatedMovement	Free Cinema ⓘ kitchen sink realism ⓘ surface form: Kitchen sink realism
stylisticBreakFrom	heritage-style literary adaptations ⓘ traditional British studio melodrama ⓘ
typicalProductionMode	low-budget production ⓘ
typicalSetting	industrial towns in Northern England ⓘ working-class neighborhoods ⓘ
typicalTheme	alienation ⓘ aspiration and frustration ⓘ class conflict ⓘ constraints of social mobility ⓘ economic hardship ⓘ generational conflict ⓘ marital breakdown ⓘ sexual relationships ⓘ

Referenced by (31)

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Australian New Wave cinema → influencedBy → British New Wave ⓘ

The Entertainer (1960 film) → partOf → British New Wave ⓘ

French New Wave → influenced → British New Wave ⓘ

Tom Jones → partOf → British New Wave ⓘ

subject surface form: Tom Jones (1963 film)

this entity surface form: British New Wave cinema

Ken Loach → influenced → British New Wave ⓘ

this entity surface form: British social realist filmmakers

Look Back in Anger → influenced → British New Wave ⓘ

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British New Wave → hasAlternativeName → British New Wave ⓘ

this entity surface form: British New Wave cinema

British New Wave → hasAlternativeName → British New Wave ⓘ

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British New Wave → hasAlternativeName → British New Wave ⓘ

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Rita Tushingham → notableFor → British New Wave ⓘ

this entity surface form: British New Wave cinema

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Two Cities Films → associatedWithMovement → British New Wave ⓘ

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Woodfall Film Productions → movement → British New Wave ⓘ

Tony Richardson → movement → British New Wave ⓘ

Lindsay Anderson → movement → British New Wave ⓘ

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Chris Menges → movement → British New Wave ⓘ

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Carol Reed → influenced → British New Wave ⓘ

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Walter Lassally → movement → British New Wave ⓘ

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Accident (screenplay) → associatedWithMovement → British New Wave ⓘ

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner → movement → British New Wave ⓘ

Billy Liar → movement → British New Wave ⓘ

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning → movement → British New Wave ⓘ

Otto Heller → movement → British New Wave ⓘ

this entity surface form: British New Wave cinema

Jack Clayton → movement → British New Wave ⓘ

this entity surface form: British New Wave cinema

Angry Young Men → influenced → British New Wave ⓘ

this entity surface form: British New Wave cinema

British film industry → historicalPeriod → British New Wave ⓘ

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