Elise Booth Film Studies

Conventions of Social Realism Location shooting (not studio) Wide shots Non-professional actors Semi improvised scripts Humour and seriousness  The erosion of regional identities  Wider social issues explored via emotional and dramatic individual stories Triumph over adversity  Political Ideologies  

The Poll Tax The Community Charge, commonly known as the poll tax, was a system of taxation introduced in replacement of domestic rates in Scotland from 1989,  prior to its introduction in England and Wales from 1990. It provided for a single flat-rate per-capita tax on every adult, at a rate set by the local authority.  The abolition of the rating system of taxes (based on the national rental value of a house) to fund local government hd been unveiled by Margaret Thatcher when she was Shadow Environment Secretary in 1974, and was included in the manifesto of the conservative Party in the October 1974 general election.