This essay is an analysis of the genre of british social problem films, it uses the text 'Sapphirre' as an example.

British Cinema History Assignment TwoShane Gladstone9/12/02 A cultural and social analysis of the 1959 Rank film 'Sapphire' by Ralph Deardon and Michael Relph in 1,500 words. The relaxation of film censorship laws in post-war Britain had by the late fifties brought about many changes in British Cinema. The most striking of these changes being its rapidly increasing willingness to deal with issues both social as well as artistic, the more contemporary the better. 1956 - 1963 could be seen …

…ylistic way. I am of the opinion that it raised social awareness regarding racial tension and promiscuity and gave the masses a social conscience where other races were concerned in 1950's Britain. This shattered long held ideologies hailing the blacks as evil in the process and Automatically helped to prepare society for the massive cultural and social and racial sonic boom of the sixties, just one year away chronologically but socially a million. Word count 1650