A NEW BRITISH CINEMA GENRE: KITCHEN-SINK DRAMA

The document is an article from a website bfi.org extracted from Where to begin
with Kitchen-sink drama. It is written by Neil Mitchell in 2016. The article deals
with a new British cinema genre: Kitchen-sink drama.
The kitchen-sink drama is a British cultural movement created in the 1950s and the
1960s. It is focused on the lives of the working class with broad regional accents.

1- Read from line 1 to line 8. Use dates and adjectives to define kitchen-sink
films.

2- Read from line 9 to line 17 and spot words linked to society and social issues.
Show how these films gave a new and different image of England.

3- Focus on negative words from line 18 to line 27.Explain why these films maybe
considered “not entertaining”.
4- Write a short article to present kitchen-sink films for your cinema club website.