social-realist

The U.S. political poster renaissance is born with the emerging Farmworkers struggle, which as a result of its largely Latin American workforce brings with it ideas from Cuban poster art and the Mexican social-realist artistic movements that have evolved since the time of Mexican muralists of the 1930s.

G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That G. Roger Denson 2011

Chinese social-realist novels set in the 1990s are about people laid off from the SOEs.

China's Way Forward 2009

The cultural and intellectual legacy ofThe Wire, particularly its critique of neoliberal institutions and its place in the social-realist tradition. 250 – 500-word abstracts by 2 March 2010; Gerry Canavan (afterthewire@gmail.com) and Lisa Klarr (afterthewire@gmail.com).

CFPs for Your Attention « Gerry Canavan 2010

The U.S. political poster renaissance is born with the emerging Farmworkers struggle, which as a result of its largely Latin American workforce brings with it ideas from Cuban poster art and the Mexican social-realist artistic movements that have evolved since the time of Mexican muralists of the 1930s.

G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That G. Roger Denson 2011

Chinese social-realist novels set in the 1990s are about people laid off from the SOEs.

China's Way Forward 2009

Australian director Jon Hewitt comes on like some repentant, social-realist Russ Meyer with this jolting, jittery exploitation flick about two prostitutes in peril.

X: Night of Vengeance – review 2012

Moving northwards, Manchester's Grimm Up North (Thu to Sun, Dancehouse) boasts an array of horrors with suggestive one-word movie titles: Slice, Chop, Primal, Fragment, Macabre, and Outcast (James Nesbitt's new Irish social-realist horror).

Halloween film seasons and all-nighters Steve Rose 2010

Any one of these films could have been a plausible winner, but Considine's intestinally powerful social-realist drama about rage, despair and redemption has enforced a notable consensus.

Bafta missed their chance to break The Artist's silence 2012

But where does that leave our poor social-realist film-makers?

Trailer trash 2012

Another panelist, Maxim Jakubowski, said a number of excellent Italian crime writers had yet to be translated in English, in part because of the place-specific, social-realist nature of their novels.

Do hard-edged crime series get harder as they progress? Peter Rozovsky 2010