Social realism
Subtitle: art, nationhood and politics
By: by David Forrest
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Pub.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9781443851510
Subjects: Motion pictures; History; Social realism in motion pictures
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [220]-227) and index.

Includes filmography (p. [228]-231).