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Dream boy: Discuss Kes and Billy Elliot in relation to Raymond Williams’s Categories of Culture



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HE Xin-yu

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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2017.11.008

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

By contrasting the two British films, Kes  and Billy Elliot , which in different historical periods, the paper is a comparative cultural study to films. Aside from the similarities, the differences between the two films precisely show the cultural and social differences in reality. In Raymond Williams’ s theory of cultural materialism, culture can be divided into three categories—the dominant, residual and emergent. In relation to this, the ‘cultural hybridity’ can be shown clearly among the problems (eg. gender, class, sexuality, etc) that the two films involve. Then, I suggest that the relationships between Kes and the ‘emergent culture’ is an important cultural aspect which Kes exceeds to Billy Elliot.

Categories of Culture, Social Space, Gender, Class