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This book offers an opportunity to reconsider the films of the British New Wave in the light of forty years of heated debate. By eschewing the usual tendency to view films like A Kind of Loving and The Entertainer collectively and include them in broader debates about class, gender, and ideology, this book presents a new and innovative look at this famous cycle of British films. For each film, a re-distribution of existing critical emphasis also allows the problematic relationship between these films and the question of realism to be reconsidered. Drawing upon existing sources and returning to

Motion picture industry --- Billy Liar. --- British New Wave. --- British films. --- Kind of Loving. --- class. --- film criticism. --- film interpretation. --- gender. --- ideology. --- realism.