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The Arts Britain’s artistic heritage is both broad and deep. The impact has been strongest in literature, film, popu;ar music theatre, poetry, painting and classical architecture, and perhaps weakest in classical music and modern music. Cinema Prewar: British cinema in its infancy Hollywood Charlie Chaplin, Stan Laurel, Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant The dominance of American cinema ‘It is more or less impossible to think of British cinema without reference to its relationship to Hollywood’ The truly home-grown genre in British cinema was the British New Wave of the early 1960s Realities of postwar life Working class Saturday Night and Sunday Morning; A Room At The Top; A kind of Love All in black and white The British New Wave is the name given to a trend in filmmaking among directors in Britain in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The label is a translation of Nouvelle Vague, the French term first applied to the films of Fran?ois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard and others. There is considerable overlap between the New Wave and the so-called Angry Young Men, those artistes in British theatre and film such as playwright John Osborne and director Tony Richardson, who challenged the social status quo. Their work drew attention to the reality of life for the working classes, especially in the North of England, often characterized as Its grim up north. This particular type of drama, centred around class and the nitty-gritty of day-to-day life, was also known as the kitchen sink drama. Early 1980s Gandhi A Passage to India My Beautiful Laundrette Four Weddings and a Funeral Trainspotting The English Patient Shakespeare in Love Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Bend it Like Beckham Lord of the Rings Harry Potter series James Bond series Costume dramas based on Victorian novels Financed by American film companies Theatre Elizabethan era: the flowering of British theatre Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Shakespeare coined more than 2000 words and many phrases