Chapter 1 Introduction – ‘an anthropology of ourselves’ Vs ‘the incomprehensibility of the real’: Making the Case for British Social Realism

Chapter 2 Tragedy, Ethics and History in Contemporary British Social Realist Film Paul Dave

Chapter 3 Staging the Contemporary: Politics and Practice in Post-War Social Realist Theatre

Chapter 4 Bad Teeth: British Social Realism in Fiction

Chapter 5 ‘this/is not a metaphor’: The Possibility of Social Realism in British Poetry

Chapter 6 Re-presenting Reality, Recovering the Social: The Poetics and Politics of Social Realism and Visual Art

Chapter 7 Small Screens and Big Voices: Televisual Social Realism and the Popular