Schlagwort: Docudrama
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Margaret Creear: No child of mine
[Socialism Today, No 17, April 1996, p. 6-7] The recent TV documentary-drama, No child of mine, was a sensitive and careful attempt to portray the character of child abuse. The story of Kerry, sexually abused from early childhood, was set against a background of ‘normality’, a middle-class household not a single-parent family on a run-down…
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Lezli-An Barrett: Land and Freedom
[Socialism Today, No 3, November 1995, p. 29-30] Lezli-An Barrett, director of the film, Business As Usual, takes a critical look at Ken Loach’s Spanish civil war epic. Contemporary Liverpool. An old man, David Carne, suffers a heart attack. En route to the hospital, he dies. Kim, his granddaughter, sorts through his effects and begins…