“Social realism has been a genre that has very much inspired my work, from the wonderful Lino Brocka to the British social realism,” he said. Baker continued, “With this film we ...

Later shunned for the crime of not being a painter of socialist realism. Died 1953, Moscow. The word “decolonization” comes up more than once at “Tatlin: Kyiv,” the Ukrainian Museum’s ...

An avowed Marxist and the father of socialist realism, Gorky reflected on his social and political milieu in works like “The Lower Depths” and “Children of the Sun,” both of which explore ...

“It’s not a musical, and it’s not a kitchen sink play,” Hoche added, referring to the social realism style of certain plays. “But [“Life of Pi’] has the spectacle of a big budget ...

Which is a story we’d play today. Balance is the key, between what’s exciting and social realism. You can have a storyline like Lola’s, which was about a young mother facing terminal cancer.

This is a drama of criminality and redemption, with Almodóvarian twists, moments of social realism presented in campy style that pours out as a eventual tragedy.And its quite riveting at that.

He said: “I think every writer in the social realism realm took a breath when that came out, particularly when everyone said, ‘This is what TV drama can do!’ We’ve been trying to do that ...

Mohaiemen suggests that Abedin’s depiction of harsh social realism shattered colonial romanticism in the arts. Apparently Abedin and Ahmed were close allies and their work may also have inspired ...

The Animal Kingdom writer/director Thomas Cailley blends traditional French social realism with one major element of science fiction (humans turning into animals) to create a dystopian drama that ...

In our latest critical piece, Professor Seán Patrick Donlan weighs in on Oscar's newest darling, indie filmmaker Sean Baker.