Back To School

You already know what's up from the title of this post. I'm back at sixth form and better than ever!
In media we've started to look at British Nationalism and it's role in film and television. During Mondays lesson we had a great discussion and made an attempt to define what being British meant, which we found extremely hard because being British means a lot of things to a lot of different people. We had a collage made up of different images that all represented Britain in their own way, which acted as a stimulus for our discussion. We concluded that being British was more like sharing a school of thought or state of mind, instead of something that could be physically described because of it's complexity and it's ability to be influenced by other cultures and people, but at the same time rebel against what others do and believe. This definition of Britain's identity is very evident in Britain's film, television and music because our directors/producers/artists are influenced by ideas that originate from places such as the USA however we tend to rebel against the conventions of Hollywood Blockbusters and by doing this, have established our own convention (i.e. Grime, Indie music, regional soaps etc.).