Realism or ‘realisms’? Realism and the Cinema Defining Social Realism
For the most part, the paraphrasing of the source text here is good and demonstrates a solid understanding of the reading material. Occasionally, errors occur which are too important to be left uncorrected. For example, at the outset you say that the term social realism is often used to describe texts based on their “content” and “visual style”. You omitted the area of “concerns” although they seem to have been subsumed wrongly as “issues” into content. The presentation draws our attention to the problematical association of the term “social realism” with other terms such as “working class realism” and “kitchen sink realism”, but falls short of clarifying why these terms are not synonymous. Elsewhere, clarification of terms in the Prezi is very good. Key terms such as artifice, code, and convention are well explained. Carroll’s suggestion that the critical term ‘realism’ should always have a prefix is mentioned and examples of such terms given: textual examples would have strengthened this section. The comparison of Kracauer’s ideas of realism with Bazin’s to expose their very different attitude towards artificial ways of achieving realism is very good. There is good paraphrasing of criteria used to define realist texts posited by Branston and Stafford and Williams. Hayward’s claim that the makers of social realist films incorporate a self-reflexive recognition that realist texts suppress certain truths and produce others is worth mentioning. The criteria of all three theorists could be brought to bear to explain why Jaws is not a realist text.
The key phrases and terminology of social realism are effectively picked out in various ways either through text resizing or highlighting and there is some good annotating of evidential text.
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Social Realism in the British Context
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Realism and the Cinema
Defining Social Realism
For the most part, the paraphrasing of the source text here is good and demonstrates a solid understanding of the reading material. Occasionally, errors occur which are too important to be left uncorrected. For example, at the outset you say that the term social realism is often used to describe texts based on their “content” and “visual style”. You omitted the area of “concerns” although they seem to have been subsumed wrongly as “issues” into content. The presentation draws our attention to the problematical association of the term “social realism” with other terms such as “working class realism” and “kitchen sink realism”, but falls short of clarifying why these terms are not synonymous. Elsewhere, clarification of terms in the Prezi is very good. Key terms such as artifice, code, and convention are well explained. Carroll’s suggestion that the critical term ‘realism’ should always have a prefix is mentioned and examples of such terms given: textual examples would have strengthened this section. The comparison of Kracauer’s ideas of realism with Bazin’s to expose their very different attitude towards artificial ways of achieving realism is very good. There is good paraphrasing of criteria used to define realist texts posited by Branston and Stafford and Williams. Hayward’s claim that the makers of social realist films incorporate a self-reflexive recognition that realist texts suppress certain truths and produce others is worth mentioning. The criteria of all three theorists could be brought to bear to explain why Jaws is not a realist text.
The key phrases and terminology of social realism are effectively picked out in various ways either through text resizing or highlighting and there is some good annotating of evidential text.
Prezi’s features are dynamically employed. Good use is made of the resizing tool to conceal subsidiary text and graphics within primary text. Good use is also made of highlighting and shape tools to emphasise text. The framing tool could be used to group ideas and sections and sub-sections of analysis as well as for framing blocks of text.
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