We will be using Shane Meadows' This is England 86 to explore the representation of people, places and period. I like alliteration, you see.
There is a wealth of material accompanying the series out there on the internet, and those helpful people at http://www.shanemeadows.co.uk/ have helpfully collected them all together. The posts for 18th October, 10th October, 7th and 3rd of September contain some excellent links to articles and interviews conducted to promote the Channel 4 premiere of the series. Please look through the collected articles and collect any statements or quotations that you think will help you to write about the representation of people, places and period in the series - because, eventually, that is what you are going to have to do! Remember, when you collect the articles either in a Word or PowerPoint document, to record the sources (you could do this as a hyperlink) - this is good practice for research and you will need to attribute the quotations in your final assessement.
Other than that, just enjoy - or marvel at, as parts of it are really not enjoyable - the brutality, sensitivity, the truth and emotional depth of the whole This Is England project. A modern masterpiece.
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