social realism

Genre can be defined using the repertoire of elements. For example; visual codes. Visual codes include iconography, cinematography and mise-en-scene. These things are used in 'A taste of honey' in the moving, to create the stereotypes, as mentioned later on. Also narrative codes would be used; stock; situations, characters, plots. In 'a taste of honey' the plot is set out as the girl being pregnant and the homosexual male bringing the baby up. Sound codes can be used to define the genre of the film e.g. music dialogue, sound FX, digetic and non-digetic sound. The genre can also be defined by the audience by the directors and key stares in the film, as directors leave their own personal signatures on their films and actors may be pigeon holed as certain stereo-typical characters. The final Repertoire is Themes and Ideology; declined of industry masc. in crisis politics ECT.
During the 1960's social realism was used to show the parts of society, which were not accepted as the 'social norm'. For example in A Taste Of Honey the mother and daughter had to move about a lot due to lack of funds to pay rent. This wouldn’t be accepted socially due to the traditions of leading a long honest life. Also the Daughter got herself pregnant while underage, this is a big social no. To top the film off, in the 1960's it was socially unacceptable to be homosexual, and during the film a homosexual young male helps the daughter through the pregnancy and the up bringing of the child. The film shows this using the repertoire of elements. For example the visual codes, with the iconography using suitcases when moving etc. and the mise-en-scene for the homosexual male, this assists the film buy creating a stereotypical image of a homosexual male, e.g. earrings short hair etc.