Studying Billy Elliot The film Billy Elliot is part of Standard English Module C : Texts and Society . It falls under the Into the World elective . In your studies of Module C , you will be concentrating on this theme of ' Into the ...
Author: Rebecca Mahon
Publisher: Pascal Press
ISBN: 1741250374
Category: Billy Elliot (Motion picture)
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LEAPING OUT OF THE LEXICON CINEMATIC AND LITERARY REPRESENTATION Billy Elliot's Dad : Ballet ???? Billy Elliot : What's wrong with ballet ? Billy Elliot's Dad : What's wrong with BALLET ???? Billy Elliot : It is perfectly normal .
Author: Cameron McCarthy
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 0820486825
Category: History
Page: 580
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The contributors to Globalizing Cultural Studies: Ethnographic Interventions in Theory, Method, and Policy take as their central topic the problematic status of «the global» within cultural studies in the areas of theory, method, and policy, and particularly in relation to the intersections of language, power, and identity in twenty-first century, post-9/11 culture(s). Writing against the Anglo-centric ethnographic gaze that has saturated various cultural studies projects to date, contributors offer new interdisciplinary, autobiographical, ethnographic, textual, postcolonial, poststructural, and political economic approaches to the practice of cultural studies. This edited volume foregrounds twenty-five groundbreaking essays (plus a provocative foreword and an insightful afterword) in which the authors show how globalization is articulated in the micro and macro dimensions of contemporary life, pointing to the need for cultural studies to be more systematically engaged with the multiplicity and difference that globalization has proffered.Everyone I've spoken to who has seen the film Billy Elliot has in some way been moved. I, however, have been dramatically changed. For those who haven't had a chance to see Stephen Daldry's great little movie, it's the story of a young ...
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The Advocate is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) monthly newsmagazine. Established in 1967, it is the oldest continuing LGBT publication in the United States.To an extent, then, Billy Elliot is part of a long-standing tradition of presenting English national identity in terms of class and regional conflict. The twist, of course, is that the ultra-talented dancer who will claim his place as ...
Author: Steven Blandford
Publisher: Intellect Books
ISBN: 9781841501505
Category: Performing Arts
Page: 200
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This book engages with ideas that are highly topical and relevant: nationalism, nationhood and national identity as well as the relationship of these to postcolonialism. However, it does so within the broad field of drama. Examining the debates around the relationship between culture and national identity, the book documents the contributions of actual dramatists and film-makers to the chronicling of an important historical moment. The book breaks down what have been traditional barriers between theatre, film and television studies, considering the very broad range of ways in which the creators of dramatic fictions are telling us stories about ourselves at a time when the idea of being 'British' is increasingly problematic. Much has been written on the 'break up' of Britain, but there has been very little to-date about the impact that this is having on drama in the thetre, on television and on film. A very wide range of material is discussed in the book, ranging from box office hits such as "The Full Monty" to community based theatre in Scotland and Wales.As a story , Billy Elliot uses a number of the discursive themes which have featured in this book . First , there is a strong sense in which the film depicts Billy as chosen by dance , rather than he choosing it .
Author: Michael Gard
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 0820472662
Category: Performing Arts
Page: 252
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What kinds of men become theatrical dancers? Why do men do ballet? The worlds of Western theatrical dance, gender relations and sexuality intermingle and, overtime, produce different answers to these questions. Survey of the history of men in dance, as Nijinsky and Nureyev, and of subjects as masculinity and homosexuality.Into the World Answer notes based on Billy Elliot , by Stephen Daldry . 1 The text type is a film . 2 Two main transitions : Billy's entrance into the world of ballet , and his family's acceptance of his new path which also introduces ...
Author: Derek Lewis
Publisher: Pascal Press
ISBN: 1741251540
Category: English literature
Page: 128
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4 ) , a view particularly applicable to Stephen Daldry's Billy Elliot ( 2000 ) , which surely looks back to Ken Loach's Kes , recycling a motif that worked in 1969 but is stale in the year 2000. It is a manipulative pretence of realism ...
Author: Ian MacKillop
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 0719064899
Category: History
Page: 252
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Covering a variety of genres, such as war films and women's pictures, as well as social issues which affect film-making, this is a re-evaluation of what has until now been seen as the most critically lacklustre period of the British film industry.It was followed by Billy Elliot (2000), which was an international hit, and The Hours (2002), for which Nicole Kidman won an Oscar for Best Actress. His most recent film is Hiding Room.
Author: Barry Spurr
Publisher: Pascal Press
ISBN: 9781741253672
Category: English literature
Page: 272
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This guide contains comprehensive summary and discussion of all 44 prescribed texts in the HSC Standard English course, plus a list of key issues to consider in each chapter related to the relevant syllabus area, helpful advice on how to read different types of texts, plot outlines, character discussion and interpretations.Billy exists in an entirely male household since his mother is dead , but the film sets up a substitute for ... Like myth , narrative plays out and encodes real issues at a symbolic level , in Billy Elliot issues of gender and class .
Author: Jonathan Bignell
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 0719062055
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 260
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Using examples such as the Wonderbra advertisements and the film Waterworld, Bignell presents an investigation of the critical approach to contemporary media studies and discusses the challenges posed by post-structuralist theory and postmodernism.154; for the film's publicity, see 'Billy Elliot: Production Notes', http://cinema.com/articles/160/billy-elliot-productionnotes.phtml. 34. Guardian, 27 August 2000, 4 May 2005; Hall, Billy Elliot, p. ix; 'Billy Elliot: Production ...
Author: Dominic Sandbrook
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9780141979311
Category: History
Page: 688
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SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015 Britain's empire has gone. Our manufacturing base is a shadow of its former self; the Royal Navy has been reduced to a skeleton. In military, diplomatic and economic terms, we no longer matter as we once did. And yet there is still one area in which we can legitimately claim superpower status: our popular culture. It is extraordinary to think that one British writer, J. K. Rowling, has sold more than 400 million books; that Doctor Who is watched in almost every developed country in the world; that James Bond has been the central character in the longest-running film series in history; that The Lord of the Rings is the second best-selling novel ever written (behind only A Tale of Two Cities); that the Beatles are still the best-selling musical group of all time; and that only Shakespeare and the Bible have sold more books than Agatha Christie. To put it simply, no country on earth, relative to its size, has contributed more to the modern imagination. This is a book about the success and the meaning of Britain's modern popular culture, from Bond and the Beatles to heavy metal and Coronation Street, from the Angry Young Men to Harry Potter, from Damien Hirst toThe X Factor.