British Social Realism in the Arts since 1940

PAUL DAVE Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of East London, UK STEPHEN LACEY Professor of Drama, Film and Television, University of Glamorgan, UK ROD MENGHAM Reader in Modern English Literature, University of Cambridge, UK DAVE ROLINSON Lecturer in the Department of Film, Media and Journalism, University of Stirling, UK KESTON SUTHERLAND Reader in Poetics at the University of Sussex, UK GILLIAN WHITELEY Curator and Lecturer in Critical and Historical Studies at Loughborough University School of the Arts, UK

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