Sentences with phrase «between social realism»

And here, too, I could only blame myself for missing the obvious, even as together the work finds a space between social realism and Surrealism.

Not exact matches

The manifesto cover is a curious cross between utopian social realism from the 1930s and a margarine commercial.

Intention aside, even the most talented filmmaker's commitment to a certain kind of realism can leave him precariously perched between sympathy and pity, social engagement and smug condescension.

So self - serious that it became an unwitting parody of the beloved first season, the return of «True Detective» struck an uncomfortable compromise between wild, fantastical elements (a corpse with its eyes burned out, an assailant in a bird's head mask) and social realism (online porn, PTSD, substance abuse)-- and in the process exposed Nic Pizzolatto's writing as a bunch of risible blather masquerading as poetry.

A more general social realism can be seen in Up at the Bleachers, 1983, and After Hours, 1993, where we can almost hear the buzz of conversation between friends.

It is part of a long established tradition of social realism, which maintains a close connection between the camera's unguarded eye and the democratic imperative to look directly at life, including the unsavory and the unseen, in a specific and unidealized way.

The debate between the merits of Social Realism, Regionalism and Abstraction raged in America throughout the 1920s and 1930s.