British Social Realism in the Arts since 1940

Acknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction - 'an anthropology of ourselves' Vs. 'the incomprehensibility of the real': Making the Case for British Social Realism; D.Tucker Tragedy, Ethics and History in Contemporary British Social Realist Film; P.Dave Staging the Contemporary: Politics and Practice in Post-War Social Realist Theatre; S.Lacey Bad Teeth: British Social Realism in Fiction; R.Mengham 'this / is not a metaphor': The Possibility of Social Realism in British Poetry; K.Sutherland Re-presenting Reality, Recovering the Social: The Poetics and Politics of Social Realism and Visual Art; G.Whiteley Small Screens and Big Voices: Televisual Social Realism and the Popular; D.Rolinson Index