Audience Expectations

Audience Expectations

Primary Research

Secondary Research

"A coming-of-age story is a genre of literature and film that focuses on the growth of a protagonist from youth to adulthood" - Wikipedia

"Social realism ... [draws] attention to the everyday conditions of the working class and the poor; social realists are critical of the social structures which maintain these conditions" - Wikipedia

"Social realism has shown us to ourselves" - BFI

"Through the movement from childhood to adulthood this genre (coming-of-age) allows a discussion of personal identity and selfhood" - Lianne Vella

"Social realism is a discursive tern used by film critics and reviewers to describe films that aim to show the effects of environmental factors on the development of character through depictions that emphasise the relationship between location and identity" -  Julia Hallam and Margaret Marshment