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SUMMARY:Precarious lives: inequalities in health through the lens of the f
 ilmmaker - Speaker to be confirmed
DTSTART:20221011T124500Z
DTEND:20221011T170000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Join us to view and discuss the acclaimed 2019 film Sorry We M
 issed You with the film's Director Ken Loach. We are fortunate also to hav
 e secured Professor Robert Gordon (Centre for Film and Screen) and Gordon 
 Harold (Professor of the Psychology of Education and Mental Health) both f
 rom the University of Cambridge. Robert will set the scene as a leading ex
 pert on the important early social-realist film Bicycle Thieves (1948\, di
 rector Vittorio de Sica). Gordon will present current evidence on how hous
 ehold economic stress affects family dynamics and mental health and the im
 plications for policy.\n\nThis rare afternoon will appeal to those interes
 ted in the development of the social realism film genre over the last cent
 ury\, in interdisciplinary studies of inequalities in health and a commitm
 ent to policy development and action.\n\nThe two films follow the lives of
  families contending with the everyday realities of economic stress and ho
 w these pressures impact on wellbeing at the individual\, family and relat
 ionship levels Both are part of the ‘social-realism’ film movement tha
 t show and tell compelling stories set amongst poor and aspiring working-c
 lass families and filmed on location\, often using non-professional actors
 .\n\nThe circumstances of the difficult economic and moral conditions of p
 ost-World War II Italy in “The Bicycle Thieves” stand interesting comp
 arison with those of “Sorry We Missed You” and the present times\; exp
 loring our current zero-hours gig economy and its effect on families.\n\nW
 e invite attendance from all those interested including people with lived 
 experience of these circumstances\; academics from across the arts and sci
 ence- including film makers and historians\, sociologists\, educationalist
 s and psychologists and policy makers.\n\nTogether we will compare perspec
 tives to better understand the scope of social reality films in reflecting
  and informing evidence and moving it forward into policy. In particular\,
  we will think about how these films can help us to understand the social 
 origins of mental health difficulties in families and policy to alleviate 
 them.\n\nWe aim to develop creative relationships between people who may n
 ot often have the opportunity to discuss these topics together\; they incl
 ude those with experiences overlapping those portrayed in the films\, thos
 e interested in the development of the social realism film genre over the 
 last century and all those committed to studying and reducing inequalities
  in physical and mental health.\n\nBooking: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e
 /precarious-lives-inequalities-in-health-through-the-lens-of-the-film-make
 r-tickets-423720929707
LOCATION:Palmerston Room\, St 
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