social realism

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social realism

n
1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the use of realist art, literature, etc as a medium for social or political comment
2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) another name for socialist realism
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Pinto Art Museum's guide Andy Orencio (right) tours visitors at a gallery featuring artworks of social realism.
Trained in the US and a long-time Hollywood fan, Chahine returned home in 1948, drawing from the popular melodramas at the time, but also injecting a note of social realism.
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The first of these contends that non-realist aspects of New Zealand canonical texts have been previously discounted, in favour of critical readings which emphasise the prescriptive social realism thought to express the national literary tradition.
All of the various stories ebb and flow among various styles, including magical realism, social realism, and speculative fiction.
This social realism drama explores the relationship between an estranged single father and his young son in the slums of Venezuela, where crime reigns.
His early songs Trouble Town and Two Fingers packed a punch of social realism detailing life on a Nottingham council estate juxtaposed with the dulcet crooning of Country Song and Broken.
"It has to walk the line between social realism and stuff that is exciting, stuff that grips you and makes you gasp - and you have to tune tomorrow to see it."
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