[PDF] British Social Realism eBook

Author : Samantha Lay
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 40,89 MB
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0231501617

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British Social Realism details and explores the rich tradition of social realism in British cinema from its beginnings in the documentary movement of the 1930s to its more stylistically eclectic and generically hybrid contemporary forms. Samantha Lay examines the movements, moments and cycles of British social realist texts through a detailed consideration of practice, politics, form, style and content, using case studies of key texts including Listen to Britain, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Letter to Brezhnev, and Nil by Mouth. In discussing the work of many prominent realist filmmakers, the book considers the challenges for social realist film practice and production in Britain, now and in the future.

Author : Samantha Lay
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 13,38 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781903364413

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British Social Realism: From Documentary to Brit Grit details and explores the rich tradition of social realism in British cinema from its beginnings in the documentary movement of the 1930s to its more stylistically-eclectic and generically-hybrid contemporary forms. Samantha Lay examines the movements, moments and cycles of British social realist texts through a detailed consideration of practice, politics, form, style and content, using case studies of key texts including Listen to Britain, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Letter to Brezhnev, and Nil By Mouth. The book considers the challenges for social realist film practice and production in Britain, now and in the future.

Author : D. Tucker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 23,34 MB
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230306381

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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.

Author : David Forrest
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 38,43 MB
Release : 2013-09-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1443853062

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This book presents a radical reappraisal of one of the most persistent and misunderstood aspects of British cinema: social realism. Through means of close textual analysis, David Forrest advances the case that social realism has provided British national culture with a consistent and distinctive art cinema, arguing that a theoretical re-assessment of the mode can enable it to be located within the context of broader traditions of global cinema. The book begins with the documentary movement and British wartime cinema, before moving to the British new wave and social problem cycle; the films of Ken Loach; the films of Mike Leigh; realism in the 1980s, specifically the work of Stephen Frears and Alan Clarke; before concluding with a discussion of contemporary realist cinema, specifically the work of Shane Meadows, Andrea Arnold and other recent exponents of the mode. These case studies give a thorough platform to explore the most prominent and diverse examples of realist practice in Britain over the last 80 years. The construction and critical analysis of this ‘social realist canon’ creates the conditions to reassess and look anew at this most British of cinematic traditions.

Author : David Forrest
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,2 MB
Release : 2020-03-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1474413048

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The tradition of British realism has changed dramatically over the last 20 years, where films by directors such as Duane Hopkins, Joanna Hogg, Andrea Arnold, Shane Meadows and Clio Barnard have suggested a markedly poetic turn. This new realism rejects the instrumentalism and didacticism of filmmakers like Ken Loach in favour of lyrical and often ambiguous encounters with place, where the physical processes of lived experience interacts with the rhythms of everyday life. Taking these 5 filmmakers as case studies, this book seeks to explore in depth this new tradition of British cinema - and in the process, it reignites debates over realism that have concerned scholars for decades.

Author : Stephen Lacey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 37,81 MB
Release : 2002-03-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1134899823

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The British `New Wave' of dramatists, actors and directors in the late 1950s and 1960s created a defining moment in post-war theatre. British Realist Theatre is an accessible introduction to the New Wave, providing the historical and cultural background which is essential for a true understanding of this influential and dynamic era. Drawing upon contemporary sources as well as the plays themselves, Stephen Lacey considers the plays' influences, their impact and their critical receptions. The playwrights discussed include: * Edward Bond * John Osborne * Shelagh Delaney * Harold Pinter

Author : Julia Hallam
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 37,64 MB
Release : 2000-08-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780719052514

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Compares Once were warriors with other films that have similar themes.

Author : John Hill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 24,41 MB
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1838718087

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Hugely impressive in its scope, with introductory chapters on social history, the film industry and theories of realism, this indispensable history of these vital years contains unusually fresh discussions of films justly regards as important, alongside those unjustly ignored. The extensive filmography which accompanies Sex, Class and Realism will also prove to be an invaluable reference source in the teaching of British cinema history.

Author : Paul Newland
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 17,86 MB
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1526133148

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This is the first book to provide a direct and comprehensive account of British art cinema. Film history has tended to view British filmmakers as aesthetically conservative, but the truth is they have a long tradition of experiment and artistry, both within and beyond the mainstream. Beginning with the silent period and running up to the 2010s, the book draws attention to this tradition while acknowledging that art cinema in Britain is a complex and fluid concept that needs to be considered within broader concerns. It will be of particular interest to scholars and students of British cinema history, film genre, experimental filmmaking, and British cultural history.