Format:
1 DVD-Video (77 Min.)
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schwarz-weiß
Series Statement:
Ken Loach at the BBC 6
Uniform Title:
Cathy come home
Content:
Jeremy Sandford's drama about a young family's slide into homelessness and poverty was a defining moment in 1960s television, demonstrating how far drama could influence the political agenda. The controversy generated by "Cathy Come Home" led to public outrage at the state of housing in Britain, and gave a welcome boost to the (coincidental) launch of the homelessness charity Shelter a few days after the play was first broadcast, as part of the BBC's "The Wednesday Play" strand ... The success of "Cathy" established director Ken Loach as a politically committed filmmaker standing apart from the commercial mainstream, and demonstrated again his sensitivity to his usually working-class characters. With its abandonment of the confines of the studio in favour of location filming, and its innovative use of documentary techniques - owing something to the Free Cinema movement associated with filmmakers like Lindsay Anderson and Karel Reisz - "Cathy" played an important part in the development of television drama at a time when writers were attempting to take the form into a new territory, distinct from its theatrical origins. [www.screenonline.org.uk]
Note:
enthält außerdem:
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Housing Problems (1935)
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engl. / UT: engl. für Hörgesch.
Language:
English
Keywords:
DVD-Video
