Option A cinema Sense and Sensibility (1995) a review

Sense and Sensibility (1995)


My Option A classes in cinema start this week. The classes will be partly made up of a chronological element : the history of British cinema, with particular emphasis on what images of Britain are presented in British cinema, by whom, when, and why.

The other part of the class will be an analysis of a number of extracts from British films which use images of Britain. This part of the class will have a thematic structure - we will be looking at

- images of "traditional" Britain
- images of "working class" Britain
- images of Britain as a "leading country" in the world
- images of a Britain of romantics and eccentrics
- images of "the immigrant experience in Britain".

All this probably in that order. So to start us off, follow this link to a review of Ang Lee's "traditional Britain" film "Sense and Sensibility".