British Social Realism in the Arts since 1940
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British Social Realism in the Arts since 1940

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British Social Realism in the Arts since 1940

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This is the first book of its kind to look across disciplines at this vital aspect of British art, literature and culture. It brings the various intertwined histories of social realism into historical perspective, and argues that this sometimes marginalized genre is still an important reference point for creativity in Britain.

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Year
2011
ISBN
9780230306387

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. British Social Realism in the Arts since 1940
  3. Contents
  4. List of Figures
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Notes on Contributors
  7. Introduction – ‘an anthropology of ourselves’ Vs ‘the incomprehensibility of the real’: Making the Case for British Social Realism
  8. 1 Tragedy, Ethics and History in Contemporary British Social Realist Film Paul Dave
  9. 2 Staging the Contemporary: Politics and Practice in Post-War Social Realist Theatre
  10. 3 Bad Teeth: British Social Realism in Fiction
  11. 4 ‘this/is not a metaphor’: The Possibility of Social Realism in British Poetry
  12. 5 Re-presenting Reality, Recovering the Social: The Poetics and Politics of Social Realism and Visual Art
  13. 6 Small Screens and Big Voices: Televisual Social Realism and the Popular
  14. Index