Articles related to "Social Realism"

Social realism has brought true greats of the British film industry such as Mike Leigh and Ken Loach to the fore, and as a genre it is hugely influential on modern cinema

A brief look at the history of British Cinema, and the new crop of directors working on British films today.

Winner of the Prix du Jury at Cannes in 2006 for Red Road, British director Andrea Arnold repeated the trick in 2009 with Fish Tank, a triumph of poetic realism.

Richard Wright's new view of African-American writing after the Harlem Renaissance.

Get Carter is a nihilistic gangster flick brought to life by a career defining performance from Michael Caine.

The first part of Ray's Apu trilogy of films, which includes Aparajito and The World of Apu, was this tragic coming of age tale.

Mike Leigh's best films, including Abigail's Party, and his famous method of improvising with actors such as David Thewlis and Sally Hawkins to develop scripts.

Fresh from its new extension in 2007, the Prado continues to grow, with a new collection of Goyas and other late 19th-century artists.

A look at the Spanish language epic which redefined the fantasy genre, the effect of the advertising campaign that launched it, and the merit of the resulting film.

Director Karel Reisz's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, the classic story of an angry young man, heralded a new kind of cinema for British audiences.

Ken Loach's unsurpassed film Riff Raff is a remarkable emotional roller-coaster, which launched the careers of both Robert Carlyle and Ricky Tomlinson.

The Wire has a growing army of loyal fans. It's even President Obama's favorite show. What makes it so special? The writing? The actors? Or maybe it's just everything...

Richardson's hard-hitting 1959 screen version of Osbourne's infamous play signaled the beginning of social realism and the angry young man in British film.

Harry Broudy advocated arts education for all students, rather than just for those gifted or highly interested in art, placing the arts at the centre of education.

Get Carter was the British gangster movie that re-defined the genre. Its use of ugly, urban locations and architecture served to heighten the realism.

Mr. Leigh ditches the melancholy realism of his award winning abortion drama, Vera Drake (2004), in favour of something light, funny and above all, emotionally envolving.

With presidential elections a hot issue, many galleries are trying to extend people's interest in politics into the art arena.

As well as the popular horror films of the 1930s, science fiction films had also caught the public's imagination by the middle of the decade.

A selection of the most important, influential and in one case awful British TV programmes beginning with the letter E.

Being Human Review: 2009 brings a freshly commissioned new series of Toby Whithouse's quirky drama starring Russell Tovey, Aidan Turner and Lenora Crichlow.

Museum Ludwig in Köln, Germany shows about 40 paintings by Gerhard Richter and focuses on his later abstract works created between 1986 and 2008.

The Arctic Monkeys new album, their third, is an at-times awkward approach at taking on a more mature sound.

This is a museum of film history, but the Movieum also offers courses in film skills such as animation, model and prop making, make-up, set design and photography skills.

Released 30 years ago this week, Inflammable Material was the first full-length album to appear on an Independent label. It remains one of Punk's essential debuts.

With Halloween approaching it seems applicable to look back on some of the most classic films the horror genre ever spawned

Early 20th-century expressionist artist Bratby and mixed-media artist Tàpies added components of writing to their repertoires.

French film movement synonymous with slick stylised imagery and associated with names such as director Luc Besson & actors Beatrice Dalle, Juliette Binoche & Denis Lavant

What distinguishes the films of French New Wave cinema icons such as Truffaut, Godard and Chabrol? How have they influenced Tarantino, Scorsese and Jeunet?

A brief look at German expressionist cinema, what defines the genre and how it has influenced film noir, horror and modern cinema.

A few reasons for the British soap's success are their platform for realism, familiarity, character identification, popularity with women and their 'cliff-hanger' aspect.

A look at This Is England, Shane Meadows' modern social realist drama that exposes racism and poverty in 1980s Britain through the eyes of a bruised and bullied boy. 7/10

Discover the wintry charm of paintings by Ashcan School artists Robert Henri, John Sloan, William Glackens and George Wesley Bellows.