The gloves are off, Billy's pumped: Gender & class politics in 'Billy Elliot' Posted: Apr 01, 2008 11:10:39
BILLY ELLIOT (Stephen Daldry, 2000) explores the familial and communal dynamics of the besieged village ... so traumatized by the struggle and so one-dimensionally shaped by a very masculine world that Billy's desire to dance is brutally proscribed. Jackie, Billy's single father, asserts that, 'Lads do ...