"[...] Implicit in this attitude is a belief in freedom, in the importance of people and the significance of the everyday."

"Free Cinema" Manifesto (1956)




"[working-class art] It starts from the assumption that human life is fascinating in itself."

Richard Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy: Aspects of Working Class Life (1957).




"And if you have five seconds to spare
Then I'll tell you the story of my life..."

The Smiths (Morrissey), Half a Person (1987)