Introduction : "an anthropology of ourselves" vs. "the incomprehensibility of the real" : making the case for British social realism / David TuckerTragedy, ethics and history in contemporary British social realist film / Paul Dave -- Staging the contemporary : politics and practice in post-war social realist theatre / Stephen Lacey -- Bad teeth : British social realism in fiction / Rod Mengham -- "This is not a metaphor" : the possibility of social realism in British poetry / Keston Sutherland -- Re-presenting reality, recovering the social: the poetics and politics of social realism and visual art / Gillian Whiteley -- Small screens and big voices : televisual social realism and the popular / Dave Rolinson.
David Tucker: Introduction : "an anthropology of ourselves" vs. "the incomprehensibility of the real" : making the case for British social realism
Paul Dave: Tragedy, ethics and history in contemporary British social realist film
Stephen Lacey: Staging the contemporary : politics and practice in post-war social realist theatre
Rod Mengham: Bad teeth : British social realism in fiction
Keston Sutherland: "This is not a metaphor" : the possibility of social realism in British poetry
Gillian Whiteley: Re-presenting reality, recovering the social: the poetics and politics of social realism and visual art
Dave Rolinson.: Small screens and big voices : televisual social realism and the popular
