Kitchen sink realism
BRITISH SOCIAL REALIST ARTISTIC MOVEMENT
Kitchen Sink Drama; Kitchen sink drama; Kitchen Sink Dramas; Kitchen-sink drama; Kitchen Sink School; Kitchen Sink Cinema; Kitchen Sink cinema
Kitchen sink realism (or kitchen sink drama) is a British cultural movement that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in theatre, art, novels, film and television plays, whose protagonists usually could be described as "angry young men" who were disillusioned with modern society. It used a style of social realism which depicted the domestic situations of working-class Britons, living in cramped rented accommodation and spending their off-hours drinking in grimy pubs, to explore controversial social and political issues ranging from abortion to homelessness.