Saturday Night, Sunday Morning (1960)

New Wave
-Representing working class heroes
-emergence of young representations new voices not just BBC middle class middle aged man view

Analysis of "Saturday Night, Sunday Morning" (1960) Directed By Karel Reisz


Mise-En-Scene:


Setting:
factory, family home, local pub (the white horse), fishing lake, Nottingham


Themes:
swinging sixties, rebellious teenagers (fell down the stairs drunk at the pub, no respect for elders throwing drink on them on purpose and shouting abuse), affairs/adultery, women being the cook of the house traditional, marriage, sex (raunchy), pregnancy, abortion

Icons:
cigarets, drink, grammar phones, shandy bass, BB Gun, Dead Rat

Narrative:
"Yes my Duck", calling Arthur a "Red" (derogatory) communist

Characters:
Arthur Seaton (Main character, Rebilous Teens), Dorren (jacks new love interest), Brenda (Wife having an affair with Arthur Married to jack)