New forms of art, culture and theory have recently emerged through engagements with the realities of the social world and everyday life which are not primarily

This book reconsiders realism on the American stage by addressing the great variety and richness of the plays that form the American theatre canon.

DIVA collection of essays rethinking and reviving realism as a focus for film theory, particularly emphasizing the relation of the genre to issues of the body./

Rites of Realism shifts the discussion of cinematic realism away from the usual focus on verisimilitude and faithfulness of record toward a notion of "performat