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. DAVID TUCKER is Associate Tutor in English at the University of Sussex, UK. He has published in a number of books and journals, and is currently preparing a monograph on Samuel Beckett's interest in the seventeenth-century philosopher Arnold Geulincx. INDICE: Acknowledgements - List of Figures - Notes on Contributors - Introduction - 'an anthropology of ourselves' Vs. 'the incomprehensibility of the real': Making the Case for British Social Realism; 'D.Tucker - 'Tragedy, Ethicsand History in Contemporary British Social Realist Film; 'P.Dave' - Staging the Contemporary: Politics and Practice in Post-War Social Realist Theatre; 'S.Lacey' - Bad Teeth: British Social Realism in Fiction; 'R.Mengham' - 'this. isnot a metaphor': The Possibility of Social Realism in British Poetry; 'K.Sutherland' - Re-presenting Reality, Recovering the Social: The Poetics and Politics of Social Realism and Visual Art; 'G.Whiteley' - Small Screens and Big Voices: Televisual Social Realism and the Popular; 'D.Rolinson' - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-24245-6
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha Publicación: 10/06/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés