| Description |
1 online resource (235 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-227) and index. |
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Includes filmography (pages 228-231). |
| Summary |
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 movemen ... |
| Contents |
Chapter One Social Realism: Origins and Departures -- Chapter Two Social Problems, New Waves: The 1950s and 1960s -- Chapter Three Ken Loach: Reluctant Artist -- Chapter Four Realism and Authorship: The Films of Mike Leigh -- Chapter Five The 1980s: British Social Realism Becomes British Art Cinema -- Chapter Six Contemporary British Realism: Continuity and Fragmentation -- Chapter Seven Conclusion. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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Motion pictures. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Great Britain -- History -- 21st century.
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| Chronological Term |
21st century |
| Subject |
Social realism in motion pictures.
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Social realism in motion pictures. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Forrest, David. Social realism. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2013 9781443851510 (OCoLC)858896845 |
| ISBN |
9781443853064 (electronic book) |
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1443853062 (electronic book) |
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9781443851510 |
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1443851515 |
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