Martin Parr 1999
- Begins with questions that he will asking
- Voice behind camera brings in performative element
- Immediately introduces the contrast of class - perhaps answering that Englishness is in fact based on class distinctions
- Uses people's answers to questions to raise queries eg british vs english
- Dialectic approach in way it cuts from a man saying there is no hooliganism to a different man opening a woman's coat to reveal her low cut top
- Introduces concept of Britain vs others, namely Germany the only country Britain is really able to say it rightfully invaded
- Goes from pub to posh people having an extra pimms - the same things but in a different manner
- Things like sport returned to as a uniting point for different people
- No names of places given, focusing on the people
- Interviews while they're doing something
- Begins with Southern accent, moves west, but multiple examples of accents being deceiving - not the same as where people are from necessarily
- Shots of flags in different places
- Social mobility
- Different scenes - city, country fete, beach
- Traditions eg Sunday lunch
- Gradually comes to people who define england as opposed to other countries
- Racism 'send them all back' - whiteness as part of englishness, people who were once subjects of the British empire no longer count
- This is followed by a woman saying she likes the fact that immigrants can find a home is England - multiple perspectives existing in country, neither more english than the other
- Where home is and how use nationality to define yourself
- Normal people not authorities
- Weather
- Goes to places where people gather - filming community
- Different ages
- Unity of englishness - north south divide
- capturing moments of life
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