This is England - political and social context

How does This is England reflect the political and social contexts of the 80's?
- refer to film form including mise-en-scene (costume, setting, performance etc.) and sound specifically the music.

This is England reflects political and social context of the 80's by the mise-en-scene in which the use of costume and the setting reflects this. In 1979 Thatcher became the prime minister, in which during the 1980's many people suffered due to her ruling as she believed in a free market and small state, because of this many people in England became unemployed which led to poverty creating a capitalistic society. This then created the 'skinhead' subculture although this emerged in the 1960/70s of which this stood for people who shared the same taste in fashionable clothes and an interest in black culture & music, but by the 1980's the 'skinheads' synonymously became a term for neo-Nazism and stood for far-right politics. This is England reflects this by the use of costume, as Woody and his friends all stereotypically represent the 'skinheads' by their doc martens boots, checkered shirts, braces and Harrington jackets. Setting in This is England reflects the social and political views, as Meadows chooses to place the film in a working class location which is nameless and populated by a number of regional accents, this reflects how the problems caused by the capitalist society that created the 'skinhead subculture' is a widespread problem which has affected the main population of England.