1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453114503321

Autore

Forrest David

Titolo

Social realism : art, nationhood and politics / / by David Forrest

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2013

ISBN

1-4438-5306-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (245 p.)

Disciplina

243

Soggetti

Social realism - Great Britain

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents a radical reappraisal of one of the most persistent and misunderstood aspects of British cinema: social realism. - - Through means of close textual analysis, David Forrest advances the case that social realism has provided British national culture with a consistent and distinctive art cinema, arguing that a theoretical re-assessment of the mode can enable it to be located within the context of broader traditions of global cinema. - - The book begins with the documentary movement and British wartime cinema, before moving to the British new wave and social problem cycle; the films of Ken Loach; the films of Mike Leigh; realism in the 1980's, specifically the work of Stephen Frears and Alan Clarke; before concluding with a discussion of contemporary realist cinema, specifically the work of Shane Meadows, Andrea Arnold and other recent exponents of the mode. These case studies give a thorough platform to explore the most prominent and diverse examples of realist practice in Britain over the last 80 years. The construction and critical analysis of this social realist canona creates the conditions to reassess and look anew at this most British of cinematic traditions. - -



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792255703321

Titolo

Politics and culture in Victorian Britain [[electronic resource] ] : essays in memory of Colin Matthew / / edited by Peter Ghosh and Lawrence Goldman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006

ISBN

0-19-151444-6

1-280-90483-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GhoshPeter

GoldmanLawrence <1957->

MatthewH. C. G (Henry Colin Gray)

Disciplina

306.20941/09034

Soggetti

Great Britain Politics and government 1837-1901

Great Britain Civilization 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

A brief word on "politics" and "culture" / Peter Ghosh and Lawrence Goldman -- Colin Matthew (1941-1999) / Boyd Hilton -- Colin Matthew : a memoir / Ross McKibbin -- Colin Matthew : a bibliography / Peter Ghosh and Lawrence Goldman -- Gladstone and Peel / Peter Ghosh -- Gladstone and a liberal theory of international relations / Martin Ceadel -- The enfranchisement of the urban poor in late-Victorian Britain / John Davis -- The defection of the middle class : the Endowed Schools Act, the Liberal Party and the 1874 election / Lawrence Goldman -- Liberal passions : reason and emotion in late- and post-Victorian liberal thought / Michael Freeden -- The Church of England and women's higher education, c. 1840-1914 / Janet Howarth -- Protestant histories : James Anthony Froude, partisanship, and national identity / Jane Garnett -- Roman candles : Catholic converts among authors in late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain / Philip Waller -- Scenes from professional life : medicine, moral conduct, and interconnectedness in Middlemarch / Margaret Pelling -- Victorian interpretations of Thomas Hobbes / Jose Harris.

Sommario/riassunto

How and why should we study Victorian Britain? The answer to this



question used to be quite straightforward. It was the Victorian contribution to modern politics which stood out above all else. Today we are not so sure. This book suggest that politics are still central, but must be more broadly construed, as a pervasive part of Victorian culture as a whole. - ;In the last twenty years one of the classical arenas for British historical writing - the politics of Victorian Britain - has ceased to be an obvious or self-evidently important subject. Facing up to this challenge, the historians who ha