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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Social Realism"”.
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Simulating Disempowerment: The Rhetoric and Reception of Social Realism in Video Games
… disempowerment utilised in traditional social realist media, to communicate a political message. The study proceeds, however, to identify how the distinctive features of the video game medium may cause the political content of these experiences to be overlooked or re-interpreted by …
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Robert Challe's 'Les Illustres Francoises': Social Realism and Some Intellectual Traditions of the Seventeenth Century
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The subversion of sympathy in British social realism: uses of laughter in the cinematic representation of the British working-class
… of this research is that the lineage of British social realism has portrayed a gradual departure from an ostentatious and judgmental approach which circumscribed the British New Wave. Bazin successfully highlighted the patronising tendencies inherent in a benevolent approach to representation by …
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REALISM IS THE AVANT-GARDE: PLAY SCRIPTS, COSTUMES, AND STAGE DESIGNS
… (spoken drama) was the sole orthodox approach to realism. While huaju closely followed the performance model of script and rehearsal, this dissertation investigates alternative practices that drew inspiration from the nineteenth-century Euro-American theater but deviated from the standards of …
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The nature of professional reasoning: An analysis of design in the engineering curriculum
… reasoning and design thinking on one hand, and social realism in the sociology of education on the other. These traditions take different positions on professional reasoning. Design thinking is concerned with contextual detail and case precedent, while social realism in the sociology of …
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Roberto Arlt : translation and the construction of genre
… a fascination with the popular and a trenchant social realism fused with fantasy; his oeuvre is considered to have paved the way for later Latin American magic realism. Though distinguished names such as Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortazar praised his work, still, Arlt has long been considered …
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Something holy
… interiority and seven chapters of a young adult social realism novel. The craft paper explores different strategies for “showing and telling” as a means of conveying interiority in faith-based characters, and it analyzes these strategies in two YA novels, Let’s Call it Doomsday by Katie Henry and …
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Abijail de Andrade: artísta plástica do Rio de Janeiro no século xix
… of the artist Abigail de Andrade, precursor of Social Realism was this painter's forro of expression and style and was used to convey her views of the world and her feelings and concerns for those less fortuna te in society. Ready to carry out any artistic challege regarding the painter's craft, …
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A New Archaic Avant-Garde?: Tradition and Experimentation in the Neo-Mediaeval Cinema of Terry Gilliam, Derek Jarman, and John Boorman
… literary and eschews the dominant aesthetic of social realism in favour of something more fantastical and dream-like. Secondly, it argues, they belong to a wider tradition of British visionary artists which can be traced back to the likes of Chaucer, Blake and William Morris.
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Investigating the structural and cultural conditions that reproduce coloniality and inhibit decolonisation at a private higher education institution in South Africa
… Institution (PHEI), adopted a Critical and Social Realism theoretical framework while employing a critical discourse analytical approach. Working within an interpretive paradigm, the study gathered data through semi-structured interviews involving the PHEI lecturers whose agential …
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Kontroverses Erbe und Innovation : die Novelle Die Reisebegegnung von Anna Seghers im literaturpolitischen Kontext der DDR der siebziger Jahre
… focused on the concepts of cultural heritage and social realism, by using the form of fiction instead of a critical essay. The first chapter deals with the historical context of the novella. It tries to show Anna Seghers' allegorical depiction of the literary figures of "Nikolai Gogol", "E. T. A. …
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Modernism and the American system: standardization, ugliness, literature, 1900-1930
… Desiring industrial, economic, geographic, and social normalcy, Americans advocated programs—such as eugenics, ugly laws, City Beautiful movements, and the scientific rationalism of Henry Ford and Frederick Winslow Taylor—that systematically excised forms of difference in the modern scene. In an …
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Dancing the Tiekiedraai : a socio-historic approach to Bosman's bushveld narratives
… were more than cleverly devised pieces of social realism. In the past, critics have largely either regarded Bosman's work as existing 'outside' of politics - even commending him for his ability to disregard the 'obsession' with politics reflected in the texts of other South African writers …
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Canvas politics: Norman Lewis and the art of Abstract Resistance
… I argue that he is better suited as a Social Abstractionist and an Abstract Allusionist based on the life he lived, the work he produced, and his involvement in both black art and the Abstract Expressionist movement. ^ I begin by presenting a comprehensive overview of Lewis' biography …
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Translating Peking opera for the London stage: Lady Precious Stream
… Confucianism’s emphasis on the harmony – cosmic, social and personal – that arises from the observance of the natural order of things, making it highly-formulaic and strictly codified in performance. Both in terms of form (characterisation, setting, and prescribed acting skills), and of narrative …
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Fragments of a Man: The Fracturing of Time and Mind in John Steinbeck's East of Eden
… attempts to contribute to the ideas that the realism and social concerns of the Dust Bowl Trilogy are uncharacteristic of Steinbeck’s writing; that the attribution of Grapes of Wrath to Steinbeck alone is problematic; and that the writing of East of Eden (1952), which Steinbeck considered his …
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Ballads, blues, and alterity
… Chapter 1, ‘“Dancing Puppets” | Nationalism, Social Darwinism, and the Transatlantic Invention of Folksong’, uncovers moments of mediation between ‘primitive’ cultures and metropolitan elites during the early twentieth century. Employing the idea of gatekeeping, I critique a genealogy of …
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An investigation into the integration of digital technology in teacher development for enhanced inclusion
… agency, employing Margaret Archer's theory of social realism. This study is significant in the context of growing demands for inclusive, technology-enabled education to address diverse learning needs. Using a design-based research approach, the research involved a case study, interviews, and …
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Routes and Networks of Mexican Abstraction Across the Americas (1958-1970)
… historically assessed by their rejection of social realism, this project highlights their evolving dialogues with Muralism and their negotiations with local and transnational institutions. Through analysis of cultural policies, museum studies, and Cold War-era politics, I explore the …
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Fred Zinnemann and the Documentary Fiction Film
… were critically and popularly well-received, his social realism, expressing a liberal, progressive outlook, was at odds with the generally reactionary critical milieu created by the ascendant auteur critics of the fifties. In Chapter 2, I lay the groundwork for a reevaluation of Zinnemann's early …
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