The British New Wave has been said to revitalize the stagnant British film industry at the end of the 1950s through ways in which ‘the “new” cinema sought to break with the “old” by inserting a whole area of social experience hitherto suppressed or treated as marginal’ (John Hill: 303). Discuss the intersections of ‘old’ and ‘new’ and documentary and the theatrical form, in the aesthetics, themes and narratives of British New Wave cinema with reference to two or more films.
