Affective Rhythms: Experience of Trauma in Alan Clarke’s Films from the 1980s by Karolina Kosińska

“… Alan Clarke’s films from the 1980s are usually characterized as radical tests of the boundaries of social realism and narrative minimalism. As such, they have been described as highly political, although their political potential relates primarily to form rather than content (plot or story). …”
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Counterspaces of Resistance: Peter Carey’s Bliss by Barbara Klonowska

“…Secondly, at the level of literary convention, the text activates the strategies of comic social realism only to juxtapose them with elements of fantasy, fairy tale and myth, thus undermining the representational powers of the former and hinting at other possibilities of representation. …”

Geschichtsverlauf und Bildstillstand by Christa Blümlinger

“…Fritz Langs Liliom of 1934, which was made in France and marked a significant stage in the director's career between Berlin and Hollywood, anticipates the courtroom scene from Fury, a film famous for its social realism. The spectator is in both cases elevated into the position of a privileged witness, because he is shown things, which have already happened or are being retold. …”
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Realism as a third film practice by Birger Langkjær

“…As a film practice, it cuts across well known but often vaguely defined sub-categories, such as social realism and psychological realism. Finally, it is argued that the dichotomy between Hollywood genre films and European art cinema ignores both national variants of basic genres and a tradition of realism as a mainstream film practice.…”
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La Notion de qualité télévisuelle dans la production fictionnelle britannique by Stéfany Boisvert

“…The quality of British TV fiction has often been associated with teleplays, adaptations and the movement of social realism. Through a study of TV productions, of the discourses of scholars and critics, and a comparison with the concept of American Quality TV, this article highlights some of the relevant criteria of Quality TV in the UK, most notably the educational, ethical or realist dimension of the programs and their visual sobriety. …”
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Problematising adult basic and secondary education in a globalised world. From second chance to school recovery by Marcella Milana

“…Drawing on a three-year study that assumed a social realism perspective and employed situational analysis, it discusses three dimensions of policy making in adult education: the scales of political mobilisation, the environments for policy-making, and the meanings conveyed. …”
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Engelsk socialrealisme reenacted. Slaget ved Orgreave (nu og dengang) by Janna Lund

“…The article “English social realism re-enacted – The Battle of Orgreave (now and then)” is taking inspiration from the professor in theatre and performance studies Rebecca Schneider’s study of living history and the re-enactment wave in Performing Remains from 2011. …”
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Egyptian writers and dialect: choices and goals towards the constyruction of a national literature (1858-1965) by Lucia Avallone

“…In the first half of the 20th century the writers of the Modern School make innovative linguistic choices to represent truth, a purpose inspiring also the Social Realism of the 50s. A remarkable role is given to the realistic characterization of dialogue and narrative discourse through the adoption of the Egyptian vernacular as a literary language. …”
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Realism as a third film practice by Birger Langkjær

“…As a film practice, it cuts across well known but often vaguely defined sub-categories, such as social realism and psychological realism. Finally, it is argued that the dichotomy between Hollywood genre films and European art cinema ignores both national variants of basic genres and a tradition of realism as a mainstream film practice.…”
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Plain Beasts: The Social Dimension and Animalistic Presence of Dogs in Fontane’s Frau Jenny Treibel and Effi Briest by Amir Zelinger

“…The combination between social realism and unassuming animalness as exemplified by Fontane’s doggish creatures, as the article concludes, could then also provide us with a more solid understanding of the place of the social in animal-based posthumanist symbolism.…”
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Class and UK film and television: representation, neo-liberalism, inequality by Baldwin, Jon

“…The editorial introduces the volume’s considerations of representation of class in the tradition of British social realism, the state of the nation, and the intersections of class and gender. …”
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Raccontarsi con le macerie: voce e autorialità in Fihris di Sinan Antoon by Pozzoli, Federico

“… The great expansion of post-occupation Iraqi fiction, with its overall departure from social realism and its exploration of new genres, has brought along a new conceptualization of the Author. …”
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Interrogating the power dynamics in international projects by Chrissie Boughey, Sioux McKenna

“…Archer's (1995, 1996, 2000) social realism is used to analyse the dynamics of the project and, more specifically, the way different project partners' ability to exercise their agency was shaped by the social and cultural conditions in the global and national arena as well as within the project itself.…”
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A Contrastive Analysis of English Novel and Its Urdu Translation from the Perspective of Rewriting Theory by Abd Ul Waheed

“…The study, anchored in rewriting theory, introduces a fresh approach to understanding contemporary social realism and the translation of romantic novels. …”
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FROM MRS WARREN’S PROFESSION TO PRESS CUTTINGS: THE WOMAN QUESTION IN GEORGE BERNARD SHAW’S PLAYS by Banu ÖĞÜNÇ

“…George Bernard Shaw, who introduced social realism to the British stage, is considered to be the most significant playwright of the Victorian era. …”
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The Politics of Film: by P. Stuart Robinson

“…It is this kind of social realism, eschewing the superficiality of conventional period ‘costume’ drama, that facilitates speaking truth to power. …”
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In Modernist “School for Fools”: The Topics of Writing and Apprenticeship in German and Russian Fiction of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century by Vera Kotelevskaya, Maria Matrosova

“…Bernhard) or the Soviet school and Social Realism (S. Sokolov, M. Shishkin). The literary tradition serves here as an object of imitation and/or deconstruction. …”
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Július Koller a umelecký archív by Martina Poliačková

“…Their artistic practice constists of selfdocumentation and self-administration that serves to draft some kind of the para-institution due to lack of independent platforms for presenting visual art not necessarily bound to official doctrine of social realism. This activity turns out to possess substantial power to become effective subversive tacticts within the existing system. …”
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Introduktion | Introduction by Bo Allesøe Christensen, Jørn Bjerre, Bent Sørensen, Ole Ertløv Hansen

“…Picking up this question and with it the question of realism today, this volume presents reflections based on such diverse subjects as territorial stigma in media, counter-historical narratives, strategic design, fake news and the public sphere, the notion of facts, fake art, and social realism within educational theory. …”
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Hallelujah (1929) de King Vidor : naissance de la voix afro-américaine à Hollywood by Jean-Marie Lecomte

“…Avoiding both popular imagery and musical fantasy, Vidor achieved what might be called “lyrical social realism”, a blend of subjective vision and objective reality. …”
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