British Social Realism in the Arts since 1940

1. Introduction – ‘an anthropology of ourselves’ Vs ‘the incomprehensibility of the real’: Making the Case for British Social Realism
Tucker David

2. Tragedy, Ethics and History in Contemporary British Social Realist Film Paul Dave
Paul Dave

3. Staging the Contemporary: Politics and Practice in Post-War
Social Realist Theatre
Lacey Stephen

4. Bad Teeth: British Social Realism in Fiction
Mengham Rod

5. ‘this/is not a metaphor’: The Possibility of Social Realism
in British Poetry
Sutherland Keston

6. Re-presenting Reality, Recovering the Social: The Poetics
and Politics of Social Realism and Visual Art
Whiteley Gillian

7. Small Screens and Big Voices: Televisual Social Realism and
the Popular
Rolinson Dave

Keywords: Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Arts, Cultural History, History of Britain and Ireland, Film History